Félix Ángel, painter, printmaker, draftsman, curator, and writer, was born in Medellín, Colombia on September 20, 1949. He received his Baccalaureate at Colegio San José in 1966. The same year he studied painting and drawing at Medellín’s Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes at night, receiving a partial scholarship to continue his studies the following year. Instead, in 1967, he enrolled in the School of Architecture at the National University of Colombia and graduated as an architect in 1974. Simultaneously with his architecture studies, he pursued his career as an artist, studying ceramics for two years with his Aunt Silvia Ferrer (1968-69), and taught at the Instituto de Artes and the Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, in the areas of architectural draftsmanship and advertisement.

In 1971, during his fourth year at the School of Architecture Ángel received First Prize at the II Salón de Arte Joven, a competition held at the local art museum, the Museo de Zea (currently Museo de Antioquia). His first solo exhibition was in Medellín at the Banco Grancolombiano in1972, where he was introduced by the Colombian novelist Manuel Mejía Vallejo. The same year he received another award at the III Salon de Arte Joven, and in 1973 a third award followed at the same salon. Ángel also exhibited in the Colombian cities of Cali and Popayan. In September of 1974, he showed his work in Guayaquil, Ecuador and, in September, he visited Washington, D.C., where he participated in a group exhibition at the Organization of American States titled Five Artists from Medellín: Graphics in Black and White. In November of the same year, he was nominated for the National Award at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos, in Bogotá.

Félix Ángel was hired in 1975 as Art Director and Creative of Leo Burnett and Novas in Medellín, but resigned to concentrate on his first book, a novel titled “Te Quiero Mucho Poquito Nada” (I Love you, I Love You Not), which he illustrated and published independently with his own money. The book made him very well known in Colombia, and in the next year, while maintaining a very active career as a painter and draftsman, he initiated the publication of an underground leaflet dedicated to art criticism entitled “Yo Digo” (I Say). He also taught a semester at the Faculty of Industrial Design of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, and continued visiting the United States. In 1976, along with the Museo El Castillo, he published his second book “Nosotros: Un trabajo sobre los artistas antioqueños” (a study on the contemporary artists from Medellín). In April of 1977, he moved to Washington, D.C. His ideas and visual expression continued to exert an influence on the younger generation of artists in Medellin.

Throughout a career that spans forty years, Félix Ángel has presented more 100 exhibitions in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panamá, Perú, Puerto Rico, and the United States and has participated in more than 300 art fairs, collective exhibitions and international competitions in the Western Hemisphere and Europe. He executed several public commissions and receive several distinctions and appointments.