Born in 1990 in Estado de México, Hugo Robledo lives and works in Mexico City. He graduated in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM and in 2012 he completed a residency at the State University of São Paulo, Brazil. His career has been recognized with the FONCA Young Creators grant in 2017 and 2019, and he has participated in residencies such as Fazenda Serrinha in Brazil, Cobertizo in Jilotepec, and Hotel El Ganzo in Baja California Sur.
He has presented solo exhibitions such as "Jardín de Estratos" (Foro R-38, UNAM, 2017), "Reflejo de una forma limpia" (Galería Libertad, Querétaro, 2021), "Resplandor sólido" (Galería Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City, 2023), and "El progreso es una línea recta hacia adelante" (Centro de Artes del Norte, Torreón, 2023). In these exhibitions, he has explored modernist architecture and its cultural fragility, as well as the dematerialization of color in media inspired by digital screens and the tensions between modernity, failure, and environmentalism in Latin America.
His practice is based on the study of space—constructed, imagined, represented—and establishes a dialogue with the history of architecture, modernism, and the material processes of art. Robledo addresses the tension between the abstract and the concrete in painting and sculpture, deploying an architectural poetics that questions the idea of progress and proposes new ways of inhabiting and perceiving the built environment.