Robert is a multidisciplinary artist, documentarian, and creative technologist dedicated to creating intimate, sensitive work to confront inequity and challenge meritless power. This work exists to generate shifts in perspective, examine our capacity for empathy, re-center the outliers, and corrode barriers diminishing our will to act.

His practice extends beyond traditional media, reaching deeper into our physical and virtual worlds. He uses any means necessary to communicate and connect: photographs, moving images, written words, augmented reality, oral histories, ambient soundscapes, mixed-media sculpture, and electro-mechanical installations. He works with archives in his own practice and in support of others, as with the Tim Hetherington Trust when they created an archive of every page of Tim’s work notebooks.

A Coahuiltecan, Tejano, and Mexican-American Indigenous Futurist. And is based in the Pacific Northwest, having lived most of his life in Los Angeles and New York City, and work frequently in Yanaguana — our name for what is now San Antonio, Texas.

They are a Magnum Foundation Grantee, Tow Knight Scholar, CENTER Santa Fe Awardee, Reality Hack Grand Prize Winner, and sound + video editor for the Tribeca Film Festival category winner Sandy Storyline. Robert has taught at Duke and Rutgers Universities, and led arts workshops for youth throughout the United States. With work featured in exhibitions, film, print, broadcast, and digital media, including National Geographic.