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Juan Manuel Echavarria

 

Born in Medellin, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogota, Colombia.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2008
Death and the River, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, March 6 - April 5.

2007
Bocas de Ceniza, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Public Manifestations of Creative Decent. Bocas de Ceniza, Guerra y Pa. Bandeja de Bolivar, Malmö Konsthall

2006
The Witness, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Bocas de Ceniza
and Bandeja de Bolivar, Americas Society, New York
Mouths of Ash
, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Mouths of Ash, Fotofest, Houston, Texas

2005
Mouths of Ash, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

2004
Guerra y Pa y  Otras Series, Universidad Los Andes, Bogota, Columbia

2003
Dos Hermanos y Guerra and Pa, Rainer Maria Remarque Center, European Media, Art Festival, Ossnabruck, Germany
La Maria y Otras Series, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
European Media Arts Festival, Rainer Maria Remarque Center,
Ossnabruck, Germany

2001
Bocas de Ceniza, Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, AECI, Montevideo, Uruguay

2000
Bandeja de Bolivar, Up&Co, New York
Bocas de Ceniza, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999
Corte de Florero, Emison Art Center, DePauw University, IN
Escuela Nueva, Up&Co, New York

1998
Corte de Florero, B&B International Gallery, New York

Upcoming Group Exhibitions

2009
The Dissappeared, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
The Dissappeared, Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota


Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
The Disappeared, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia, June 1 – August 3.
The Disappeared, Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, Washington DC,
September 18 – January 11, 2009                  .                 
Apetura Colombia, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX, March 8 – May 18.
The Disappeared, Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile, March 8 – AprilL 20.
Behind the Curtain: Autopsy of the Invisible Thing, MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 28 – April 14.
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, University Gallery, The University of Essex, UK, February 21 – March 22. Additional venues: The University of Hertfordshire Galleries and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
What Images They Want: Videos from Latin America, Espacio Arte Actual (FLASCO), Quito, Ecuador, January 8 – February 1.

2007
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, December 14 – February 3, 2008.
Arte, deshnora y violencia en el contexto Iberoamericano,CCE / Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay, October 19 – December 29, 2007.
Viva la Muerte: Death in Hispanic Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria, October 17 – February 17, 2008.
The Disappeared, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, October 11 – January 20.
We like it a lot, Nettie Horn, London, UK, August 17 – 21.
AfterShock, Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art,Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts / Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Norwich, UK. July 14 – September  2.
Comfort Zone, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, June  30 – August  3.
The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, June 21 – September 12.
Puntos de Vista, Contemporary Art from the Daros-Latin American Collection, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany, June 2 – August  26.
Secuencias Latinoamericanas: Interrupciones, Espacio C de Arte Contemporaneo, Camargo, Santander, Spain, May 18 – July 27.
Rio Revuelto - Bocas de Ceniza,  Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain. - April 17 – May 2.
Encuentros de la Hospitalidad, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. April.
Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo, España,
March 30 – June  24.
I Encuentro entre dos Mares, Valencia Bienal, Valencia, Spain, March 28 – June 17.
The Disappeared, El Museo del Barrio, New York, February 23 – June 17.
Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain, January 25 – March 17.

2006
The Disappeared, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
Beeldende Kunst / Video – Installaties, Arts Center Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium,
Mankind, Story of a Wound , SMAK / Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Nothing Stands Still, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Disappeared, El Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Storytelling: History, Myth and Narrative, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Home Ground, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia
Touche L’indecible, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France
Certain Encounters: Daros- Latin America Collection, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
EVA – Giveaway, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
ARS 06 – Sense of the Real, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

2005
Voix Off, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France, October
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Biennale de Venezia, Venice Biennale, Latin American Pavilion, Italy
The Disappeared, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place), Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France
Contra el Olvido / Against Oblivion, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, in conjunction with: Simposio Internacional de Justicia Restaurativa y Paz en Colombia
Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part I,  Daros-Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland

2004
Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part II, Daros-Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
Instinctive: Latin American Artists Selected by Mario Testino, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

2003

Viology: Cultures of Violence / Violence of Culture, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Fotofiesta, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Still Life / Naturaleza Muerta. Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia

2002
Viology: Cultures of Violence / Violence of Culture,  Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA

2001
Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo , MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo, Centro de Convenciones de  Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
B & N y de Color-Latinameamerica: Cine, Video y Multimedia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

2000
Man and Space, Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
Historia Cosmopolita Funcion Real. Sala de la Moneda, Seville, Spain

1999
Arte y Violencia , Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway

1998
Corte de Florero, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark

Film Festivals and Screenings

2007
FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuevos Creadoras, Madrid, Spain
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland, Bocas de Ceniza
Rencontre International Madrid, Bandeja de Bolivar, Bocas de Ceniza, Guerra y Pa
Programa Video Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Activar una Historia: Fricciones Urabanas – Guerra y PaHuman Rights Watch Film Festival, University of California, United States, Dos Hermanos (Bocas de  Ceniza)

2006
Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, United States, Bocas de Ceniza and
Bandeja de Bolivar
Recontre Internacional Paris - Berlin, Musée Jeau de Paume, French Cinémathéqe Théâtre Paris-Villette, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, and Cinéma du Monde, Paris, France, Bandeja de Bolivar Bocas de Ceniza, Guerra y Pa

2005
Salvador Allende Festival, Toronto, Canada, Mouths of Ash
The Aurora Picture Show, Houston, United States, Dos Hermanos (Mouths of Ash)
The Kansas City Jubilee, University of Kansas, United States, Mouths of Ash
San Francisco International Film Festival, United States, Dos Hermanos (Mouths of Ash)
AluCine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival, Canada, Mouths of Ash
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States,  Documentary Fortnight - Bocas de Ceniza, Guerra Y Pa, Bandeja de Bolívar.

2004
Stuttgarder Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, Bocas de Ceniza
Balagan Film Series, Boston, United States, Bocas de Ceniza
Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, Bocas de Ceniza.
Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, United States, Bocas de Ceniza
Time’s Shadow Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley University, United States, Bocas de CenizaCinema Zuid, Amsterdam, Holland, Bocas de Ceniza

2003
Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück, Germany, European Media Arts Festival.
Stockton University, United States, Bocas de Ceniza
Ninth Annual Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Brazil, Bocas de Ceniza
Shadow Festival, Amsterdam, Holland, Bocas de Ceniza.
International Kurzfimtage, Overhausen, Germany, Dos Hermanos, Bocas de  Ceniza

2002
Guerra Y Pa, Video Marathon, Art in General, New York

Bibliography

2008
Walker, Hollis.  The Disappeared, ARTnews, March 2008, p. 146.
Brown, Camilla and Oldfield, Pippa, Once More, With Feeling: Recent Photography from Colombia, exhibition catalogue, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK, p 38-43.

2007
Santiago, Soledad. Juan Manuel Echavarria: A Writer, a Camera, a Testimonial,The Santa Fe New Mexican, December 3, 2007, p. B2.
Smith, Craig. Because it is bitter, because it is my art, Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican, November 29, 2007, p. 48-50.
MieBgang, Thomas. Unermudlicher; endloser Tod, Viva la Muerte! exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria, p.80-85.
Echavarria, Juan Manuel.  Death and the River, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2007, Vol 83, Number 4, pp. 290-299.

Canvin, Yasmin. Presence Through Absence and the Art of Slowing Down, AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art,  exhibition catalogue, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, p.10; p. 30-33.
Echavarria, Juan Manuel, Frei, Luca and Garin, Mariana. “From a Dialogue between Juan Manuel Echavarria, Mariann Garin and Luca Frei,” Public Manifestations of Creative Dissent exhibition catalogue, Malmö Konsthall, p. 1 – 27.
Chambers, Rodolfo Kronfle. LO QUE IMAGENES QUIEREN, video desde hispanoamérica, Fundación ICO, Madrid, p. 42.
Michel, Régis. Echavarría et la chanson des gueux, L’oeil-écran ou la nouvelle image, 100 videos pour repenser le monde, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, p. 403-406.
Jimenez, Carlos. La Impugnacion de Narciso, El Pais, May 5, 2007.
Cotter, Holland. Unresolved Chords Echo for The Disappeared, The New York Times, April 17, 2007.
Olivares, Rosa. Documentos: la memoria del futuro, Koldo Mitzelena Kulturunea Exhibition Catalogue, Koldo Mitzelena Kulturoneko Erakustaretoa, San Sebastian, p. 17.
Díez Huertas, Celia. Documentos: la memoria del futuro, MARCO Exhibition Catalogue, Koldo Mitzelena Kulturoneko Erakustaretoa, San Sebastian, p. 133-137.

2006
Arestizabal, Irma. Juan Manuel Echavarria, 100 Latin American Artists, Publicaciones Exit,  Madrid, p. 162.
Reuter, Laurel. Bocas de Ceniza [Mouths of Ash], Fotofest2006 Catalogue – The Earth: Artists Responding to Violence, Houston, p. 34-38.
Valdez Figueroa. Eugenio. Simposio sobre la Situacion Social, Politica y Artistica en Colombia, Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich, prologue.
Lopez, Leticia. Beautiful Seduction, The New Mexican, June 23-29, p. 62-65.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. A History of Violence, Houston Press, April 6-12,p.46.
Patterson, Tom. Inspired by Broken Bodies, Winston-Salem Journal, July 9, F3.

2005
Conway Morris, Roderick. Pushing Boundaries at Venice Biennale, International Herald Tribune, June 14.
Hertzog, Hans-Michael. Juan Manuel Echavarria, The Hours – Visual Arts of Contemporary    LatinAmerica, Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich, p. 1000-10
Reuter, Laurel. A Conversation: Juan Manuel Echavarria and Laurel Reuter, Mouths of Ash
Exhibition Catalogue, Charta, Milan, p. 23-28
Girst, Thomas. Tearing Down Walls, Mouths of Ash Exhibition Catalogue, Charta, Milan,       p. 154- 160
Reuter, Laurel. Requiem for a Country, Mouths of Ash Exhibition Catalogue, Charta, Milan,
p. 10-15.
Tiscornia, Ana, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Mouths of Ash Exhibition Catalogue, Charta, Milan,
p. 65-70.
Uribe Maria Victoria. Facing the Vacuity of Violence: the Photographic and Visual Work of Colombian Artist Juan Manuel Echavarria, Mouths of Ash Exhibition Catalogue, Charta, Milan,
p. 42-47.
Gopnik, Blake. From Colombia to Venice, a Haunting Refrain, Washington Post, June 15
Wagner, Nicoletta, Kolumbiens Gewalt künstlerisch umgesetzt, Neue Biircher Beitung, Feb 1.
Gonzales, Miguel. Juan Manuel Echavarria,Art Nexus. No. 56, Volume 3, p.76-79.
Salgado, Gabriela. Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos, Art Nexus. No. 57, Volume 3, p. 64-69.

2004
Arthur, Paul, Poughkeepsie powwow, Film Comment, vol 40. no 5, Published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, (Sept/Oct) p. 67-68.
Hertzog, Hans-Michael. Conversations with Juan Manuel Echavarria, Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zurich, p. 175-201.

2003
Taussig, Michael,  The Language of Flowers, Critical Inquiry (Autumn).

2002
Girst, Thomas, Andenken aus der Hölle, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 19, p. 55.

2000
Reid, Calvin, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Bomb magazine, New York, January edition.
Reid, Calvin, Juan Manuel Echavarría at UP & CO,  Art in America, New York, February edition.
Tiscornia, Ana, Identidad Latinoamericana: la utopia, un convidado de piedra o re-asumiendo las malas palabras, Dialogos Iberoamericanos, Simposio Internacional, Valencia, Spain.
Diálogos Iberoamericanos: II Simposio Internacional: La Identitdad iberoamericna: modernidad y posmodernidad. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, pp. 47-59.
Dalrymple, Theodore. Bolivar’s Platter, New Criterion, vol. 18, no. 7.
Juan Manuel Echavarria: Rupturas a miradas sensacionalistas, Separata Cultural de Posdata
No.133, August 11, 2000.

1999
Aletti, Vincent. Photo review, Village Voice, New York, May 18, 2000.
Girst, Thomas. Relocating Politics. New York Arts Magazine. vol. 3, no 6. p. 48.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. Tales of Horror, Artnet.com. May 21, 1999.
Medina, Alvaro. El Arte y la Violencia Colombiana en la Segunda Mitad del Siglo XX, Arte y  Violencia en Colombia Desde 1948, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Editorial Norma, p.10-120.
Rohter, Larry, In the Trauma of Barbarity, Art Speaks Out, New York Times, New York. October 17, p. 41.
Rohter, Larry. In the Trauma of Barbarity, Art Speaks Out, International Herald Tribune, October 23-24.   
Girst, Thomas, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?, Very, volume 9.
Reyes, Ana María. Rupturas y mirades sensacionalistas: Reflexiones fotográficasde Juan Manuel Echavarría sobre la violencia en Colombia. Bocas de Ceniza Exhibition Catalog, Bogota, Valenzuela y Klenner, 1999.

1998
Aletti, Vincent, Photo review, Village Voice, New York, USA, June 2.
Sne, Martin, Fotografisk kvintet I Rundetarn, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Copenhagen Denmark, March 16, 1998.
Tiscornia, Ana, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Otras expediciones, Brecha, February 13, 1998, p. 26.
Tiscornia, Ana. Other Expeditions, Corte de Florero Catalogue, The River Press, New York,
p. 3-11.
Tiscornia, Ana, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Very, fall, p. 34-37.

Published Novels

1981 La Gran Catarata. Bogota: Editorial Arco,.
1991 Moros en la costa. Bogota: Ancora Editores.

Public and Corporate Collections
Fundacion Cisneros
The Daros Collection
Museu de Arte Moderna de Buenos Aires
Museu de Arte Moderna de Bogota
The Goetz Collection
The North Dakota Museum of Art