

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dario Robleto: 2026 Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: University Galleries and the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University are pleased to present a lecture by Dario Robleto, the 2026 presenter for the Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture Series, co-organized by University Galleries and the Wonsook Kim School of Art, which is free and open to the public. 

On February 24 at 7:00 p.m., Robleto’s 2024 film, Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, will be screened at the Normal Theater. Following the screening, the artist will have a brief public discussion with Kendra Paitz (director and chief curator at University Galleries) and participate in an audience question-and-answer session. 

On February 25 at 4:00 p.m., Robleto will deliver the Anne and Stephen Matter Artist Lecture at University Galleries. He will also participate in a student-centered event for University Galleries’ newly launched Creative Practice Lab.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Dario Robleto has held positions as an artist-in-residence, research fellow, and lecturer at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SETI Institute, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Center for Advancement and Study of Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. He was an artistic consultant for “Breakthrough Message” and a research consultant for Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which aired on National Geographic and Fox. Robleto has served as the Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professor at the California College of the Arts; Artist-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering; and the Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Block Museum of Art.

Robleto’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University); Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University); MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University); Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Skidmore College); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City); Frye Art Museum (Seattle); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.); Hammer Museum (University of California, Los Angeles); Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, California); and The Renaissance Society (University of Chicago), among many others. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City); The Menil Collection (Houston); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Harvard Art Museums; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University); Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas); and Blanton Museum of Art (University of Texas at Austin), among others. In 2025, Robleto was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Middlebury College and was selected as the Artist of the Year by the Art League, Houston.

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Normal
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL, United States, Illinois 61761
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- **full address**: 11 Uptown Circle, Suite 103, Normal, IL, United States, Illinois 61761

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