Adrian Delgado

Adrian Delgado was born January 9th, 1985 to Mexican-immigrant parents, and raised in South San Francisco, CA. Adrian currently resides in Richmond, CA with his family, and paints in his home studio. Adrian earned a Painting/Drawing BFA, with distinction, from California College of the Arts in 2014.

Adrian primarily uses oil painting to express an emotional and physical response to the world through bold colors and expressive, often textured, images. Adrian has extensive experience working in the arts, more notably as a teaching artist, an art preparator, and currently as an object rehousing specialist at SFMOMA.

In 2021, Adrian was awarded the CAL Arts Fellowship grant, and in 2022 received a nomination for the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship.

Resume (PDF)

Cv resume

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

Category: Painter ; Visual Artist

Style: Visual Arts : Conceptual , Environmental , Expressionism , Figurative , Impressionism , Land/Cityscape , Political , Representational , Site-Specific , Still Life , Symbolic

Medium: Acrylic ; Oil

Artist Statement

Please provide a brief description of your creative process, motivations, and inspirations:

I create work that impacts how we see those around us. My work is about the working class, including: those who remind me of my parents, and individuals that remind me of the parent I want to be. I capture real moments that remain true to their subject because there is so much beauty in their reflection, it needs to be immortalized.