Alberto Roblest. A multimedia artist, visual poet and educator, whose artwork revolves around local community and contemporary social issues. Director of the Washington DC Latino arts organization “Hola Cultura” since 2011. SELECTED shows & AWARDS: Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art 2018. Méxtasis, Brooklyn, New York 2016. “DC Muralism”, The Our City Video Festival 2015, Washington, DC. Bang Video Art Video Festival of Barcelona 2014, “Obsolete # 4” selected for the Top Ten List of best of festival videos. EXPERIMENTA TV Series, 2014 Argentina. Washington DC, Office on Latino Affairs. Latino Community Development Grants FY 2016. Digital Portraits workshop for at-risk youth. Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: 2014 City Arts Projects grant for “El Barrio”. 2009 City Arts Projects grant for the Public Art-Installation “Present Interval” public art installation at 18th St & Columbia Road. “The Inner of the Outer,” digital still art, 2008 Art Walk. Finalist, the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Prize, 2009. Best Sound Track, 7th Regional Festival “Geografías Suaves,” Yucatán, September 2005. Sala Julio Bracho, “Mexican Shorts of 2005,” Centro Cultural Universitario, December 8, 2005. Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Barcelona, Museo Contemporáneo 2004. National first prize winner, Yucatán & Caribbean Biennial of Visual Art at the Contemporary Art Museum of Yucatán, 2002. Coolidge Corner Cinema, "Experimental film series” Balagan Video Series, December 21, Boston 2000. Video Artist Fellow National Fund for Culture & the Arts, Mexico City 1996. RETROSPECTIVES: Muestra Puebla 07, September 10-15, Puebla Mexico, 2007. VideoFest 2K6, “Roblest-Retrospective,” Biennial of Video and Contemporary Film, Instituto Cultural Baja California, November 15-27-2006. Scott Pfaffman Gallery, “in mid sentence” New York City, 2001.