Harley Cortez is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and filmmaker. He has lived in Los Angeles, CA, Queens, NY, and briefly in Guatemala.

His work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. His solo exhibition in 2016 at The Paper Agency Gallery in Los Angeles, "The Poet as Spaceman," was an immersive installation of paintings, film, and music compositions that included a Q&A session with noted astrophysicists, cosmologists, and a NASA astronaut. 

Cortez's artworks transcend the art world and has found successful applications across other creative venues such as album covers, film posters, and set designs. 

His past solo exhibitions include "Voices, Voices {another inventory of memory}" in Tokyo, Japan, "The Ashes of Us" in San Diego, CA, and "Gestures" in Rabat, Morocco. His most recent sold-out exhibition at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City in November 2020 benefitted the Arts Vivo Foundation. 

His inclusion in group shows at Georges Bergès Gallery's locations in New York and Berlin have thrust him onto the international art radar.