José Delgado Zuñiga (b. Ventura, CA) is an artist whose work rooted in lived experience and remembrance. His work explores the tension between being and becoming, operating at the intersection of sound, memory, and image. His paintings reflect on identity as something continually shaped through history, collective experience and freedom.

Delgado Zuñiga earned an MFA in Painting from Columbia University and a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Notable exhibitions include Central Sounds, (Luhring Augustine, New York City 2022), IN THE KNOW, SHOW (GreenFamily Art Foundation, 2024), CUSP (Marquez Art Projects, 2023), and Fire Figure Fantasy (ICA Miami, 2022) He is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and the Robert Gamblin Fellowship, and has participated in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program. His work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Marquez Art Projects; Cuernavaca Tres, Mexico City; The Herbert and Lenore Schorr Collection; and the Hessel Bard Museum of Art. He lives and works in Miami.