Deladier Almeida has lived in California since the mid-1980s, earning his degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1990. Trained by renowned artist Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen at UC Davis in the 1980s, Almeida’s work marries the restrained quality of Wayne Thiebaud’s sleek style with Petersen’s more gestural brushwork, inspired and embraced by other Bay Area artists including David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn. He has exhibited his work at galleries, museums, and art fairs including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Hilbert Museum of California Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, LA Natural History Museum, the Caldwell Snyder gallery in San Francisco, the Campton gallery in New York City, the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont and the Albemarle Gallery in London. His work is currently represented by galleries in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Bergen, in the Netherlands.