Education 2025 BFA in Studio Art, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Awards 2025 "Día de los Muertos in Las Cruces: Arte, Música y Cultura" Juried Exhibition Best of show Chalk the Block Best of Showcase Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence Latin American Programs Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Professional Excellence Award NMSU Eastern New Mexico University Juried Student Show Best of Show
2024 Eastern New Mexico University Juried Student Show acquisition award NMSU Juried Student Show Juror's Best of Show NMSU Juried Student Show Mary Lawbaugh Purchase Award NMSU Juried Student Show A&S Dean's Award
2023 NMSU Research and Creativity Week, Fine Arts Award NMSU Juried Student Show, Excellence in painting NMSU Honors Art Collective, People’s Choice Award, Curators Choice Award NMSU Research and Creativity Week, Fine Arts Award
Residencies 2026 Flower Shop Art Residency, Brownsville, TX Border Art Residency, El Paso, TX (Upcoming) Pentaculum, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN Changarrito Residency, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX Art Farm Iowa, Northwood, IA
2024 Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer Residency, Norfolk, CT
Collections University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM Eastern New Mexico University Runnels Gallery, Portales, NM Exhibitions 2026 The Shelf Within Her, Rusterberg Art Gallery, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX The Bridge, Union East Gallery, Univeristy of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX Malinche, Secret Gallery, Alburquerque, NM Latino Love, Vargas Art Projects, Las Cruces, NM
2025 Unexpected Pedestrians: A solo show by Citlali Delgado, El Paso Mexican American Cultural Center, El Paso, TX "Día de los Muertos in Las Cruces: Arte, Música y Cultura" Juried Exhibition, Las Cruces, NM COMING HOME 2025, El Camino College Anthropology Museum, Alondra Park, CA Car and Culture Exhibition, Caravan of Dreams Gallery in Sundance Square, Fort Worth, TX CRUCES: New Acquisitions from the NMSU Permanent Art Collection, Las Cruces, NM National Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, MO Rooted - BFA Thesis Exhibition, Mullenix Bridge Gallery at NMSU, Las Cruces, NM University Juried Exhibition, ENMU Runnels Gallery, Portales, NM Juried Student Show, NMSU University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2024 Ecos del Sol, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX Making Light Student Exhibition, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk CT University Juried Exhibition, ENMU Runnels Gallery, Portales, NM Día de los Muertos Juried Art Exhibition, The Grapevine Plaza, Doña Ana County, NM NMSU Honors Art Collective Exhibition, NMSU William Conroy Honors College, Las Cruces, NM Juried Student Show, NMSU University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM The One With All The Squares, El Paso Frame Company, El Paso, TX Fine Art Appreciation Day Art Exhibition, Mystic Desert Studio, El Paso, TX
2023 Border Biennial, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Bienal Fronteriza, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez, Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua 2023 Juried Student Show, NMSU University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM NMSU Honors Art Collective Exhibition, NMSU William Conroy Honors College, Las Cruces, NM Art Rodeo Exhibition, Doña Ana Village Fiesta Plaza, Doña Ana, NM 99 Bottles Show, Moonlight Adobe Hall, Socorro, TX Skies, La Mecha Contemporary, El Paso, TX Print Pachanga, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Frontera en Arte Exhibición Juvenil, Consulado General de México en El Paso, El Paso, TX Special Places - Wide Open Spaces, El Paso International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX Art of Toys, Moonlight Adobe Hall, Socorro, TX Ramas y Raíces, Cinco Puntos Gallery, El Paso, TX
2022 Somos Mujeres, The Noble House, El Paso, TX
Public Art Sayaka Ganz: Reclaimed Creations, Las Cruces Museum of Art mural - February 2026, Las Cruces, NM Comissioned window mural to promote the solo exhibition.
NMSU Foundation Annual Report cover art - January 2026, Las Cruces, NM
Chalk the Block - Showcase Category - October 11th to 12th 2025, El Paso, TX
2025 IA Imagining America National Gathering- May to October 2025, Las Cruces, NM Visual artist for the 2025 IA Imagining America National Gathering. In partnership with New Mexico State University, the 2025 IA National Gathering will convene over 500 creatives, students, scholars, and community leaders for three days to connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize around the ways to build knowledge and inspire collective imagination towards transformative education and action.
New Mexico Arts, Department of Cultural Affairs Coloring Book Illustrations - September 2025, NM Chosen artists assist to create a double page spread coloring book illustration for the 2026 DCA Activity Book: Unearth A Story. Depicting a different period in New Mexico from Devonian to Pleistocene and Present Day, the book is a journey across New Mexico through the lens of the NM Museum of Natural History and Science.
City of Las Cruces and Las Cruces Museums Chalk Walk - March 2025, Las Cruces, NM The City of Las Cruces Quality of Life Department /Public Art, Las Cruces Museums, and the City Art Board select artists to participate in the 2025 Chalk Walk sidewalk art exhibition that takes place in the museum courtyard. (6x6ft.)
City of Las Cruces and Las Cruces Museums Chalk Walk - March 2025, Las Cruces, NM The City of Las Cruces Quality of Life Department /Public Art, Las Cruces Museums, and the City Art Board select artists to participate in the 2025 Chalk Walk sidewalk art exhibition that takes place in the museum courtyard. (6x6ft.)
City of Las Cruces Art Stop Public Art Exhibit - February 2025, Las Cruces, NM The City Art Board created a print of my painting “Second Sight” and has a designated bus stop shelter where it will be on display through the end of the 2024. Bus Shelter Location: Valley Drive and Hadley Avenue, near Save Mart store.
NMSU Borderland and Ethnic Studies Murals - January 2025, Las Cruces, NM Communicated and visualized New Mexican history via public art in the College of Education at New Mexico State University in O’Donnell Hall.
Art Bio+Collaborative / Science Murals - August - November 2024, El Paso, TX Communicated and visualized science via public art. Assisted in painting six educational murals in eight days. Hosted community engagement events at mural sites. Wrote a report on the program and experience. Sciencemurals.com
Murals With a Message - September 2024, Las Cruces, NM Painted a mural dedicated to women in war on a building on the historic street of El Camino Real. (35x18"ft)
Taco Bell Foundation x Revolution Carts - April 2024 Digitally composed a Revolution Cart design for the Taco Bell Foundation. These carts are made for street vendors to be able to sell products from a health-permitted, compliant vehicle. Revolutioncarts.com
Las Cruces Museums Chalk Walk - March 2024, Las Cruces, NM Las Cruces Museums select artists to participate in the 2025 Chalk Walk sidewalk art exhibition that takes place in the museum courtyard. (6x6ft.)
Ay Dios Mio - January 2024, El Paso, TX Painted a mural in honor of Mexican icons in the music industry.
2 Love 1 - March 2024, El Paso, TX Painted three murals inside the building's child care room. (7x3ft, 2x3ft, and 2x4ft)
Las Cruces Museums Chalk Walk - March 2023, Las Cruces, NM Las Cruces Museums select artists to participate in the 2025 Chalk Walk sidewalk art exhibition that takes place in the museum courtyard. (6x6ft.)
"El Mercadito" - November 2022, El Paso, TX Designed a logo for a local convenient store. Painted the logo along with images and words to promote the small business outside of the building. (6x24ft)
Burges High School - November 2022, El Paso, TX Painted the high school logo on the outside of two dugouts in the school's newly constructed softball complex. (5x10ft)
Bibliography Scholar Spotlight: Citlali Delgado, Taco Bell Foundation, October 30, 2023 Chloe Dunlap, First NMSU art student accepted to prestigious summer residency program, NMSU Newsroom, May 02, 2024 Minerva Baumann, Transformative Yale summer residency motivates senior art student, Panorama, Edition: Fall 2024 Josh Alvarez, An El Paso Art Exhibit Attempts, Somehow, to Make Sense of the Border, TexasMonthly, January 31, 2024 Top Five: November 28, 2024, Glasstire Noah Apodaca, NMSU student’s artwork highlights Chicano injustice, Kokopelli, November 13, 2023 Artist Duo Citlali and Francisco Delgado, KTEP State of the Arts, January 20, 2024 Citlali Delgado - Bridging Cultures Through Art and Activism, El gringo y La chola, Sep 21, 2024 NMSU students’ art selected for public spaces, NMSU Newsroom, March 24, 2025 Azure Mitchell, Transforming pain into power: Citlali Delgado reveals new painting for Garcia Center, NMSU Round Up, May 1, 2025 Pablo Villa, How a new generation is reclaiming Segundo Barrio’s mural tradition, El Paso Matters, June 27, 2025 El Paso ISD Student Help Revive Segundo Barrio's Artistic Legacy Through Community Mural Project, EPISD, July 8, 2025 Muralist Citlali Delgado, KTEP State of the Arts, August 23, 2025
Lectures and Related Experience 2026 Workshop, Prickly Portraits, Mexican American Cultural Center, El Paso, TX, January 24th
2025 Panel, Paso del Norte: A Conversation on Socially Engaged Art at the Borderlands, Imagining America National Gathering, Las Cruces, NM October 3rd. Panel, Bridge Camp, Burges Early College High School, El Paso, TX June 27th Teaching artist, MÁS QUE MUROS Muralism Summer Camp, Mexican American Cultural Center, El Paso, TX June 10-14 Lecture/Presentation, Alma d' Arte Charter High School, Las Cruces, NM March 5th
2024 Juror, TX-16 Congressional Art Competition, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX May 3rd Lecture/Presentation, Del Valle High School, El Paso, TX May 10