Victor De La Rosa is an American multidisciplinary artist, professor, curator, and academic administrator, of Latino descent.
[4] De La Rosa was the first Latino to head San Francisco State University's art department when he was hired in 2022.
[5] Victor De La Rosa was born in Oakland, California; to a mother from Mexico, and an American father of Mexican descent from Texas.
[7] In 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic, he was promoted to the director of the art department at SFSU, and he is the first Latino to hold the role.
[8] His four woven portraits highlighting the Mission District neighborhood gentrification, part of the art series “La Gente De Tu Barrio/The People of Your Neighborhood,” was displayed as a public art installation in October 2015 at BART's 16th Street Mission station.