EP1: A Conversation with Citlali Delgado, Visual Artist
In the first episode of Gathering Whispers, we talk to Citlali Delgado, visual artist for the 2025 IA National Gathering, who introduces us to her community, her art practice, and the Paso del Norte region where she has grown up.
Citlali Delgado is a visual artist from El Paso, Texas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New Mexico State University. Based in the borderlands, her paintings function to understand how she and her community can live with, against, and past the border. As a Chicana, she embodies pro-migrant and immigrant values through representation of Latino and feminist multiplicity to ultimately encourage critical resistance and liberation. She has attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program and has work in the Eastern New Mexico University and the New Mexico State University Museum permanent collections. She has shown at the El Paso Museum of Art Border Biennial, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez Bienal Fronteriza, and the Ecos del Sol exhibition at the Museum of the Big Bend.
Citlali was most recently featured in an article in El Paso Matters. Read the article to learn more about the mural tradition that she hails from, and about the pioneering work of her father, muralist Francisco Delgado.
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
