b. 1954 Puerto Rico
Lives and works in Hartford, CT
Pablo Delano was born, raised and educated in the “unincorporated” U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. He holds a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art/Temple University and an M.F.A. from Yale University, both in painting. Living in New York in the early 1980s, he turned to photography, a skill he learned from his father, the eminent photographer Jack Delano. Pablo Delano’s work has consistently documented the lives, histories and struggles of Latino/a and Caribbean communities, in their homelands and in their diasporas. After a decade photographing in Trinidad and Tobago, his fascination with that nation’s process of post-colonial nation-building led to the production of his acclaimed book In Trinidad (2008). He has also authored Faces of America (1992) and Hartford Seen (2019). In 2019, Delano was appointed Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, where he has taught since 1996. In 2024 Delano was selected by curator Adriano Pedrosa to participate in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the 2024 Venice Biennial with his ongoing project The Museum of the Old Colony.