Esteban del Valle

Esteban del Valle is a Brooklyn, NY–based 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 publications including Hi-Fructose and The Washington Post. Del Valle has been the recipient of numerous visual arts residencies and fellowships, including 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; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA. Additionally, in the summer of 2021, he received the inaugural commission for the Provincetown Public Art Foundation, and most recently, he served as the 2024 Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee School of Art in Knoxville, TN.