Guillermo Delgado is a self-taught visual artist born and raised in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, where childhood summers in Mexico and a life shaped by cultural crossings pointed him toward image-making. For more than 35 years he has built a practice spanning painting, monoprint, and mixed-media installation, drawing on nature, dreams, the spirit world, literature, music, and indigenous art.

Poetry runs through the work as much as beside it. A longtime writer and featured poet at readings across Chicago and Michigan — including the Chicago Haiku Festival and the Latino Poetry Project — Delgado treats writing and painting as a single practice: images that hold language, and language that behaves like image.

He earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in 2013. His paintings, monoprints, and installations have been exhibited nationally, including at the Museum of Science and Industry, the Heard Museum, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute’s Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago History Museum, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Garrett Evangelical School of Northwestern University, and Elmhurst College. Two of Guillermo’s paintings are held in the National Museum of Mexican Art's permanent collection.

His work and writing have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader, Crain’s Chicago Business, and Chile’s Arte Al Limite. Delgado divides his practice between Chicago and East Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches community-engaged art at Michigan State University and, in 2025, received the university's Distinguished Academic Staff Award — one of its highest honors — for that work.