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

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2008

Desolado, FOTOLOGIA 6, Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Bogota, Galeria Sextante, Bogota, Colombia
Monumentos, Galeria Sextante, Bogota, Colombia
Death and the River, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Juan Manuel Echavarria: Mouths of Ash, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Public Manifestations of Creative Decent. Bocas de Ceniza, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, April.

2006
Mouths of Ash, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Mouth of Ash, Fotofest, Houston, TX
The Witness, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

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
Gueerra y Pa, Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabruck, Germany
La Maria y Otras Series, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.

2001
Bandeja de Bolivar, Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay

2000
Bocas de Ceniza, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bandeja de Bolivar, Up&Co, New York, NY

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

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
The Disappeared, University of Texas at El Paso, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX, US
The Disappeared, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, US
t.error: your fear is an external object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY
Artists and War II, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, US
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Columbia, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, UK

2008
The Disappeared, Museo de Arte Moderno, OAS, Washington, D.C., US
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, The University of Hertfordshire Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans, UK
Corporeal/Technoreal, Meditations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
Otras Floras, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Destierro y Reparacion, Museo de Antioquia, Medelllin, Colombia
Nach/sichten: video works from the Goetz Collection, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
Los Desaparecidos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia    
Apetura Colombia, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Los Desaparecidos, Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile
Behind the Curtain: Autopsy of the Invisible Thing, MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, University Gallery, The University of Essex, UK
What Images They Want: Videos from Latin America, Espacio Arte Actual (FLASCO), Quito, Ecuador

2007
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK
Machine-RAUM: Biennale for Video Art and Digital Culture, Vejle Museum, Vejle, Denmark
Arte, deshnora y violencia en el contexto Iberoamericano,CCE / Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay
Viva la Muerte: Death in Hispanic Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
The Disappeared, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
We like it a lot, Nettie Horn, London, UK
AfterShock, Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art,Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts / Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Norwich, UK
Comfort Zone, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Puntos de Vista, Contemporary Art from the Daros-Latin American Collection, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Secuencias Latinoamericanas: Interrupciones, Espacio C de Arte Contemporaneo, Camargo, Santander, Spain
Rio Revuelto - Bocas de Ceniza,  Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain
Encuentros de la Hospitalidad, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo, España

I Encuentro entre dos Mares, Valencia Bienal, Valencia, Spain
L'oeil-ecrain ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg / Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, Belgium
The Disappeared, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

2006
Los Desaparecidos, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay 2007
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
Los Desaparecidos, 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
Sete, France, Touche L'indecible, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain
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
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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, NY

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
Five Contemporary Colombian Photographers, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark

Film Festivals and Screenings

2009
Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2008
Latin American Film Festival, CLCS, Duke University, Durham, NC, US

2007
FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuevos Creadoras, Madrid, Spain
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland, Bocas de Ceniza
Rencontre International Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, University of California, Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkely, CA, United States.

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
Pulsar, Caracas, Venezuela
Painting Ruins, Kabul, Afghanistan, Mouths of Ash
Cinema Project, Portland, OR, United States
Tufts University Art Gallery, New Media WA, Medford, MA, United States

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

2002
Art in General Video Marathon, New York, NY

2000
Festival de la Luz, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibliography

2008
Roca, Jose. Otras Floras. Galeria Nara Roesler.
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.

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