Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. 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.
You are a nineteen year old fool. Playing at manhood with a white girl. You think yourself so clever. That you can be of both worlds and deceive everyone. You’re a Bloody American boy who watched a child die on a dirty Delhi road. And now a second fright has made you pee, ever so slightly, into fine cotton pants. Welcome back to the Desh, little bitch.
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