thirteenvic
illustrator. Painter. Designer.
Photo by Saint Yves
Victoria “Thirteenvic” DelValle (b. 2000) is a Diasporican illustrator, painter, and designer based in Boston, MA. Rooted in storytelling, her practice began in spoken word poetry, performing at Louder Than a Bomb, Brave New Voices, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
She later transitioned into visual art, earning a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2022 and continuing her education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts toward a Certificate in Illustration. Her foundation in writing and performance informs her visual concepts and approach to arts education.
Introduced to Boston’s creative community through social justice–centered youth programs, she values mentorship and the transformative power of art education. In 2023, she debuted her first solo exhibition, Lost Grief, at Nubian Square Open Studios for the arts (Nosa) in roxbury, ma. By 2024, she had received fellowships with Dunamis, Artists For Humanity, and Elevated Thought. In 2025, she was awarded the Mass Cultural Council’s Grant for Creative Individuals.
Currently, DelValle serves as an Arts Programmer for the City of Boston through Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF), where she co-leads BCYF Creates, a pilot arts initiative centering youth expression and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Photo by Saint Yves
Artist Statement
She experiments with accessible, site-specific materials in response to her environment, embracing improvisation as both method and message. Her practice reflects the layered realities of cultural memory, emotional inheritance, and transformation—navigated through a diasporic lens. Juxtaposing elements of street art, expressionism, surrealism, and fantasy horror, she invites viewers to confront fear, embrace absurdity, and find wonder in the dark corners of imagination. By using playfulness as a buffer between beauty and grotesque, her work seeks to make difficult truths approachable—fostering curiosity, reflection, and social growth.
Lost Grief
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Lost Grief, thirteenvic’s debut solo exhibition inspired by Navy Blue’s Song of Sage: Post Panic! and shaped by questions of ancestral trauma, cultural grief, and embodied healing.
Video created by Darwin Pemberthy.