Esteban del Valle

Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited his work and produced murals internationally. His work has been featured in various publications including Hi-Fructose, The Washington Post, and Boston Art Review.

Del Valle has been the recipient of numerous visual arts residencies and fellowships, including those at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. He has also been awarded residencies at Chulitna Lodge in Lake Clark, AK; Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, SC; and Djerassi in Woodside, CA, and received a fellowship from the Art Students League in New York. In the spring of 2020, he was awarded the Daniel F. Breeden Eminent Scholar Chair at Auburn University.

Del Valle’s work is held in several permanent collections, including Urban Nation in Berlin, Germany; the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA; and the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. In the summer of 2021, he received the inaugural commission from the Provincetown Public Art Foundation, and in 2024, he served as Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee School of Art in Knoxville, TN. Most recently, in the summer of 2026, he was selected to be the Artist in Residence at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD.