Roberto Delgado

(born 1944)

Roberto Delgado creates paintings, prints, and murals that "evolve from the reality of the photo.". His art is based on the people and circumstances that he meets, as well as an appreciation of the human figure.

Delgado was born and raised in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. He spent time in the U.S. Army in the 1960s, and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles's (UCLA) Master of Fine Arts program. He spent the 1970s and 1980s in Chiapas State, Mexico, where he honed his skills in murals and public art. He has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships which he used to live, work, and teach in Mexico City and Honduras, working on large monotypes and murals. He is interested in the influence of "Mexican-American-Chicano barrio realism" on Mexico City and Los Angeles, as well as on young artists.