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Aldeide Delgado is a Cuban-born, Miami-based independent Latinx art historian and curator, and the founder and director of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Delgado brings extensive experience in writing, curating, and presenting on photography at prominent art history forums. She has delivered lectures at esteemed institutions, including the Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, The Clark Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), DePaul Art Museum, King’s College London, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and The New School. Her accolades include the 2023 Ellies Creator Award, 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, the 2018 School of Art Criticism Fellowship by SAPS – La Tallera, and the 2017 Research and Production of Critic Essay Fellowship by TEOR/éTica.

Delgado is the visionary behind the WOPHA Congress, the world’s first-ever feminist photography collective conference. Held every three years at PAMM and across South Florida, this groundbreaking event has gathered nearly 100 leading art historians, curators, and women photographers, attracting over 2,000 national and international attendees across its past two editions. Delgado’s work centers on feminist and decolonial perspectives, addressing key topics in the history of photography within Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx contexts. She is the author of Becoming Sisters: Women Photography Collectives & Organizations (2021). Before founding WOPHA, she created the Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers, the first comprehensive survey of Cuban photography history highlighting women’s contributions from the nineteenth century to the present. She is an active member of PAMM’s International Women’s Committee, US Latinx Art Forum, the Lucie Foundation Advisory Board, and the steering committees of the Feminist Art Coalition and Fast Forward: Women in Photography