Birthday Gurl likes to imagine what the world would be like without predictability and without perfect order so that her creativity can pour out the poetic beauty from a vision of cathode ray tube portals channeling into colors from a fairy tale universe in the story's absence.

Laura Grace Robles is Birthday Gurl, a video poet and artist from Texas, who is inspired by the psychedelic hidden world of dreaming and its appropriation to a visual language translation and transformation of experimental video art film aesthetics in conjunction with the spoken word.

Robles started out as a theater camp dropout who began writing short scripts for her high school theater arts club for holiday shows. Eventually when she started studying art at the University of Texas at San Antonio with Leslie Raymond, where she realized she wanted to create a type of visual poetry as a professional video artist who used spoken word to combine with exhibited video installation and musical performance for galleries and museums.

In 2019 and 2020 Robles was asked to display her video poetry using single-channel projection to showcase alongside a spoken word performance by herself and other artists at Texpop, The South Texas Museum Of Pop Culture in San Antonio, Texas. As well as showcasing at the Luminaria Arts Festival in San Antonio, Texas with large-scale outdoor projection on the Henry B. Gonzales building in downtown Hemisphere Park.

When she emerged as Birthday Gurl Video Artist she showcased her work for well-known artists and national acts at live musical performances for Rakim the 80’s hip hop legend, Gordon Raphael the producer of The Strokes, and Grammy award winner, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta.  Birthday Gurl also showcased during the opening acts for The Octopus Project, Com Truise, and Machinedrum.  The artist’s experimental video art poems and films have been featured in the Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival from 2018-2020, as well as selected by The Art Film Awards in 2021 and the Indie Wise Film Festival as a finalist.

Birthday Gurl starred in two foreign films, one titled Pregnant, directed by Fabrizio Federico, a film about the world’s addiction to technology. The other was a film titled Mondo Lizard A Guide To Gonzo Cinema, a film about risk-taking pioneer filmmakers who paved their way through the punk cinema movement.