Experience the otherworldly at SCAD deFINE ART film screening and artist talk with Andrew Roberts

Join SCAD deFINE ART guest Andrew Roberts for an artist talk and screening of his film Me persigue tu sombra (Haunted by your shadow), which was recently featured in his SCAD Museum of Art exhibition Haunted. In this three-part film, Roberts animates spectral manifestations of a popular fast-food mascot in a restaurant interior, casting these apparitions as embodiments of his personal experience, corporate aesthetics, and geopolitical systems. After the screening, hear from Roberts about the concepts that inform his artistic practice and his methodology, which includes elements of gameplay and world-building.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2026.

About the artist
In his practice, Andrew Roberts (b. 1995, Tijuana, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City) uses gameplay, roleplay, and world-building as core methods, resulting in multiplatform narratives that take the form of immersive installations, digital animations, sculptures, and poetry. Roberts mines the history of monsters and the physical dimension of horror to focus his lens on real-world structures: specifically, economic systems rooted in death, the weaponization of cultural artifacts, the gamification of the arms industry, and the haunting, tense relationship between Mexico and the U.S. He has held major institutional solo exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga. (2025), and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City (2025). His work has been featured in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025), the Whitney Biennial (2022), and the Athens Biennale (2021), as well as at the Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2021), and the Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego (2018).