Humberto Vélez (Panama City, 1965). He has a degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Panama, and a diploma in Film, Video and Television from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He is a professor of art and film in colleges and universities.

Vélez is known internationally for his complex and original performances of a collaborative and participatory nature in which he has worked with a wide and unusual range of groups and individuals … from London boxers, Canarian bodybuilders, political asylees in Liverpool, to indigenous people from the Andes, Guatemala and Canada.

His performances and actions have been carried out in important international museums such as TATE Modern (2007) in London, Center Pompidou (2009) in Paris and Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto (2011); and unusual public spaces, such as the Bridge of the Americas that crosses the Panama Canal, the canals of Venice or a floating pool on the Seine.

Vélez has been invited to the Panama Biennial (2002, 2005,2008) and numerous international biennials, including Venice (2011 and 2013), Shanghai (2004), Havana (2003, 2012 and 2019), Art Biennial Paiz in Guatemala (2018), Cuenca (2009), Montevideo (2012 and 2014), Ireland (2014), Liverpool (2006), among many other international exhibitions.

Vélez is (together with the Panamanian art critic Adrienne Samos) founder of VISITING MINDS, an art and education forum based in Panama that organizes pedagogical and artistic events.

In 2018 he received the French Senate Medal for his work in the arts
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