Special Skills:
Roberto is a B/W and color darkroom guru, mural photographer, large format photographer, digital photographer, video and film editor, curator, educator, administrator and a relatively hygienic human being.
History:
Before joining the faculty at AUD, Roberto taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson , Dine College on the Navajo Reservation, The School for the Deaf and the Blind in Arizona , and the Rhode Island School of Design. He has lived in Taipei , Taiwan , Zakynthos , Greece , Vienna , Austria , Miami , Florida , Los Angeles , California and Walla Walla , Washington . He grew up in Brooklyn , New York . His family is from both the North and Southern parts of Italy .
When not teaching:
Engages in dynamic political dialogue with his colleagues while figuring out the odds on winning with three of a kind. Runs to clear the mind. Reads to refill it. Gets pleasure from filling in complex forms and checking inside boxes. When doing none of the above he is busy building bridges.
Discoveries/Inspirations:
We are the problem. I can't find them. They don't exist.
Education:
Whitman College , WA , BA in Political Science and Philosophy, 1996
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in Photography, 2002
Brown University , Teaching Certificate, 2002
Selected Exhibitions:
2006 4x4, Four Men and Four Women , DUCTAC Gallery, UAE
2005 “a Tightly Curated Approximation of a Global Lifestyle.” Celebrating the 7th Sharjah Biennial, UAE
2004 Invitation to the Annual Graduate Exhibition , Chicago Art Institute, USA
Notables:
Co-creator of non-profit new visual media collective Flashflood , curator of the traveling exhibition Latent Discoveries , curator of Sheep are Welcome |
