Milko Delgado
Bio
Milko Delgado (Chiriquí, Panama – 1995) (he/they) is a transdisciplinary artist and cultural activator, a queer, HIV-positive person from Panama. Delgado explores intersections between body, territory, and nature through performance, video, and visual arts; also from cultural/community mediation as spaces to create learning experiences, with a focus on queer/dissident identities in Panama and beyond.
A graduate of the International Film and TV School – EICTV, in 2024 they presented their video El Club del SIDA at the Whitney Museum for the American Arts (NY). They also participated in La Bienal en Resistencia (Guatemala), HIV Science as Art (Munich), and Montage of the Unseen – Art World Osaka (Japan). In 2023, they received the Prince Claus Seed Award. Their works are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, Mercantil, and Casa Wabi, where they were also a resident artist in 2022.
Statement
My work is autoethnographic, and my experience as a queer, HIV-positive person in Panama drives much of my research. I'm interested in nature, soil, territory, and ways of inhabiting the body as a means to open dialogues around identity. I work through performance and visual arts, often linked to processes of mediation, management, curatorship, and affective pedagogies. My work addresses themes such as health, spirituality, desire, pleasure, fear, and ways to dismantle the colonial legacy of the body/territory and other experiences of living freely.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
