(about)
Javier Robelo engages play as a world-making practice. Drawing from Latin American and queer histories of image-making, craft, and performance, he renders a colorful cartoon cosmology. With interactive sculptures, he activates space and emotions; the beings in world he creates feel and are felt.
Javier has an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Art History and Studio from Williams College. He was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects (Pittsburgh, PA) and Cage Match Project at The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin, TX) and has exhibited his work at The Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), The Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX). He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.
Photo by Phoebe Shuman-Goodier