Esteban del Valle

Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago. He completed his MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. His work investigates the performance of leadership, the role of the artist as a public figure, and the effects of class and privilege on institutions in the form of paintings, murals, sculpture and video art. Del Valle executes mural projects internationally, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.