Born in 1952 in
Compton, California, Delaney relocated to the
San Francisco Bay Area in 1971. She received a BFA with honors from
San Francisco State University (1975), and an MFA from the
San Francisco Art Institute (1981).
Teaching Delaney was a professor at the
College of San Mateo from 1980 to 1991. She was a guest professor at
Santa Clara University during 1986, 1989, and 1995. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2014, and 2015. From 1998 to 2015, she was an adjunct professor in the Visual Studies department at the
University of California, Berkeley.
South of Market Delaney is best known for her series,
South of Market, which she began in 1978 when she moved to the
South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, an area undergoing transition due to gentrification and urban renewal. Using a
large format camera and color film, Delaney photographed her neighbors in their places of work, businesses, apartments, and out on the street. Delaney returned to the South of Market area to photograph the radical changes that had occurred in the decades since she first lived there, several examples of which were published in the catalogue that accompanied the show at the de Young. That year, Delaney featured the work in a solo exhibit at the Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco, from November to December, 2018. ==Publications==