Diego Robles

Diego Robles is an educator, artist and filmmaker inspired by independent film, video stores, public libraries, comics, and a lot of live and recorded music. He's a Film School graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, as well as an MFA graduate of CalArts's School of Film/Video & the School of Critical Studies. Diego currently teaches Art Education and on the in’s and out’s of Art & Design Internships at San Diego State University; he also currently teaches New Genres, Visual Studies, and Chicanx Art at CSU San Bernardino. 

As a local to the US-Mexico border, he continually re-explores various ways the presence and absence of dualities is exhibited and disciplined into boundaries and cliches. With more than 20 years of Teaching-Artist experience, Diego has led various Art Laboratories, Book Discussions, Visual and Media Art Exhibits, Cinema Curatorial Series, Film Screenings, Poetry or Group Readings, Theatrical Plays, Dance Performances, Workshops, Classes and participated in several research Projects at: CalArts's - Main Gallery, Bijou Theater, School of Critical Studies, the Community Art Program, & the Integrated Media Center; as well as UCLA's James Bridges Theater, the HyperMedia Studio, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, the John Wooden Center, Ackerman Union, the Student Union, UCLA Dorms' Fireside Lounge, and the School of Theater; The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences; Self Help Graphics & Art; Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles; the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater; Stanford; Los Angeles Unified School District; San Diego Unified School District; Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica; The Echo Park Film Center; CSU Northridge's Performing Arts Center - The Soraya; CSU Long Beach; SDSU; CSU San Bernardino; and most recently with - the Santa Fe Art Institute's Family Residency and Main Gallery, 2220 Art & Archives, and the Los Angeles Filmforum.

Diego’s current visual and media art work inquiries into the philosophical underpinnings of how we interpret our inner and outer world during different points in our lives, and the impact this has on how our human and non-human relationships evolve/adapt/struggle through our changing economic, environmental, political, and social climate.