BA, Art History and Studio Art, Williams College
Javier Robelo (b.2000) is multidisciplinary artist from Managua, Nicaragua. He makes drawings, prints, sculptures, costumes, and performances that excavate and celebrate queer feeling. Using a cartoon-like figurative style, he abstracts personal experiences into the essence of being and being with others. The distressed yet playful characters inhabiting his work bend over, twist, and stumble; they melt into each other, dissolve into the landscape, and are weathered by time. Across mediums, Javier finds beauty in the pathetic, courage in vulnerability, and liberation in feeling out-of-place.
Javier received his BA in Art History and Studio Art from Williams College and is pursuing an MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. He has exhibited his work at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts (Pittsfield, MA), The Arts Center of the Capital Region (Troy, NY), 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).