Dorian was awarded by the Maryland Board of Higher Education for his artistic talent, the first award of its kind in 5 years. His inaugural solo exhibition Creating Purpose was curated and sponsored by Ian Callender at Akridge and Arena Social in Washington DC, where Sobalvarro became the youngest artist in residency since the organization's inception. His work will now be shown internationally in Egypt at the University of Alexandria, expected May 2026.

He works with large scale figurative charcoal pieces exploring cultural critics and cultural identity.

Dorian Sobalvarro is a charcoal artist based in Bowie, Maryland. Born in Honduras in 2007 and raised by a widowed mother who carried their family across a foreign country. He discovered creating art offered a sense of freedom, later becoming a form of healing. His hope is that his work “…meets you where you are.”