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Juan Manuel Echavarria

 

Born in Medellín, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2012
18th Biennale of Sydney
June 27, 2012 - September 16, 2012

2011
Juan Manuel Echavarría; Requiem NN 2006-2011, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
La “O”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Juan Manuel Echavarría; Requiem NN, Ciudadela Educativa y Cultural América, Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, Colombia

2009
Requiem NN, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia

2008
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Desolado, FOTOLOGíA 6, Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Bogotá, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia,
Monumentos, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia
Death and the River, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Mouths of Ash, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Public Manifestations of Creative Dissent, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

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

2005
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Mouths of Ash, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

2004
Guerra y Pa y Otras Series, Universidad de Los Andes - Centro Cultural y Deportes, Bogotá, Colombia,

2003
Guerra y Pa, Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück, Germany
La Maria y Otras Series, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia,

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

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

1999
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Bocas de Ceniza, Valenzuela y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Escuela Nueva, Emison Art Center and Gallery, DePauw University, IN
Corte de Florero, Up & Co, New York, NY

1998
Juan Manuel Echavarría: Corte de Florero / Flower Vase Cut, B & B International Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Lucidity. Inward Views, Le Mois De La Photo A Montreal, Canada
Aschemünder, Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Prolonged Exposure, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
For Love Not Money, 15th Tallinn Print Triennial Requiem NN, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2010
La Guerra que no hemos visto, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Fragments latino-américains, Maison de L’Amerique Latinne, Paris, France
Galería 4.0, A Retrospective, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
fast forward 2: The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Optimismo Radical, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990 – 2005, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Language of Flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

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

2008
The Disappeared, Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, Washington, D.C.
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, The University of Hertfordshire Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, UK
Corporeal/Technoreal, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
Otras Floras, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
Destierro y Reparación, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
nach/sichten(After Sight): video works from the Goetz Collection, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
Los Desaparecidos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
NO ES NEUTRAL; Daros – Latin America Collection, Tabalakera, San Sebastian, Spain
Lugares comunes. La experiencia colectiva en el vídeo latinoamericano, Centro José Guerrero-Diputación de Granada, Spain
Los Desaparecidos Centro de Formación de la Cooperación España, La Antiqua, Guatemala
Viva la muerte: Art and Death in Latin America, CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Apetura Colombia, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
Los Desaparecidos, Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile
Autopsia de lo invisible/ Autopsy of the Invisible, MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, University Gallery, The University of Essex, UK
Lo que las imágenes quieren. Video desde Hispanoamérica, 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: Art and Death in Latin America, 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 America 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, Medellín, Colombia
Documentos: La Memoria del futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo, Spain
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, NY
Documentos: La Memoria del futuro, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

2006
Los Desaparecidos, 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
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
Touche L’indecible, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, 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 Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
La Trama e l’Ordito, Venice Biennale, Latin American Pavilion, Italy
Weedee Peepo, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
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, in conjunction with: Simposio Internacional de Justicia Restaurativa y Paz en Colombia, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part II, Daros – Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland

2004
Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part I, Daros – Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
Instinctive: Latin American Artists Selected by Mario Testino Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY

2003
Viology: Cultures of Violence / Violence of Culture Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Fotofiest, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Still Life / Naturaleza Muerta, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, 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

2000
B & N y de Color-Latinoamérica: Cine, Video y Multimedia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
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, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark

Film Festivals and Screenings

2010
German Film and Television Academy, Berlin

2009
Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

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

2007
FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuevos Creadoras, Madrid, Spain
Impakt Festival 2007, Utrecht, Holland
Rencontre International Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, University of California, Berkeley Art Musuem and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

2006
Americas Society/Council of the Americas, NY
Rencontre International Paris/Berlin, Musée Jeau de Paume, French Cinémathèque,
Théâtre Paris-Villette, Cinéma l'Entrepôt and Cinéma du Monde, Paris, France
Pulsar, Caracas, Venezuela
Painting Ruins, Kabul, Afghanistan
Cinema Project, Portland, OR
New Media Wall, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA

2005
Salvador Allende Festival, Toronto, Canada
The Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
The Kansas City Jubilee, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
AluCine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Canada
Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2004
Stuttgarder Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Balagan Film Series, Boston, MA
Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Time’s Shadow Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley Art Musuem and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Cinema Zuid, Amsterdam, Holland

2003
European Media Arts Festival, Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück, Germany
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Ninth Annual Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Shadow Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
49 Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany

2002
Art in General Video Marathon, New York, NY

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

Selected Bibliography

2010
Alonso, Idurre. Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990 – 2005, 72 – 75, 135.
Ollman, Leah. Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1900 – 2005 at the Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles Times, February 26.

2009
Jimenez, Carlos. Viva la muerte (Long Live Death!), Art Nexus, No. 72 Volume 8, 138 – 140.

2008
Hernandez, Chong Cuy, Sofia. Autopsia de lo invisible, Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires.
Roca, Jose. Otras Floras, Galeria Nara Roesler, October 18.
Walker, Hollis.  The Disappeared, ARTnews, March, 146.

2007
Adams, Beverly, et al. Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, 154, 264.
Brown, Camilla and Oldfield, Pippa. Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK, exhibition catalogue, 38 – 43.
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, 10, 30 – 33.
Chambers, Rodolfo Kronfle. LO QUE IMAGENES QUIEREN, video desde hispanoamérica, Fundación ICO, Madrid, 42.
Cotter, Holland. Unresolved Chords Echo for The Disappeared, The New York, NY Times, April 17.
Díez Huertas, Celia. Documentos: La memoria del futuro/Documents: The Memory of the Future exhibition catalogue, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturoneko Erakustaretoa, San Sebastian, 134.
Echavarría, Juan Manuel. Death and the River, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2007, Vol 83, Number 4, 290-299.
Echavarría, Juan Manuel; Frei, Luca and Garin, Mariana. From a Dialogue between Juan Manuel Echavarría, Mariana Garin and Luca Frei, Public Manifestations of Creative Dissent exhibition catalogue, Malmö Konsthall, 1 – 27.
Jimenez, Carlos. La Impugnacion de Narciso, El Pais, May 5.
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, 403-406.
Miessgang, Thomas. More Indefatigable, Endless Death: Comments on Art, Finiteness and Transcendence in Latin America, Viva la muerte: Art and Death in Latin America / Unermüdlicher endloser Tod: Bemerkungen zu Kunst, Endlichkeit und Transzendenz in Latinamerika / Viva la muerte: Kunst und Tod in Latinamerika, 15 – 16, 80 – 85.
Olivares, Rosa. Documents of the Imperfect Future, Documentos: La memoria del futuro / Documents: The Memory of the Future exhibition catalogue, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturoneko Erakustaretoa, San Sebastian, 71 – 72.
Santiago, Soledad. Juan Manuel Echavarría: A Writer, a Camera, a Testimonial, The Santa Fe New Mexican, December 3, B2.
Smith, Craig. Because it is bitter, because it is my art, Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican, November 29, 48-50.

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

2005
Aristizábal, Irma. La Trama e l’Ordito, La Trama e l’Ordito, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, 17.
Conway Morris, Roderick. Pushing Boundaries at Venice Biennale, International Herald Tribune, June 14.
Girst, Thomas. Tearing Down Walls, Mouths of Ash exhibition catalogue, Charta, Milan, 154- 160.
Gonzales, Miguel. Juan Manuel Echavarria, Art Nexus. No. 56, Volume 3, 76 – 79.
Gopnik, Blake. From Colombia to Venice, a Haunting Refrain, Washington Post, June 15.
Herzog, Hans-Michael. Juan Manuel Echavarria, The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary LatinAmerica, Daros – Latinamerica AG, Zurich, 10:00 – 10:05.
Herzog, Hans-Michael. Juan Manuel Echavarría, La Trama e l’Ordito, Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, 46 – 49.
Jimenez, Carlos. 51st Venice Biennial, Art Nexus, No. 58, November.
Reuter, Laurel. A Conversation: Juan Manuel Echavarria and Laurel Reuter, Mouths of Ash
exhibition catalogue, Charta, Milan, 23 – 28.
Reuter, Laurel. Requiem for a Country, Mouths of Ash exhibition catalogue, Charta, Milan, 10 – 15. Reuter, Laurel. Los Desaparecidos / The Disappeared, exhibition catalogue, Charta, Milan, 34, 94 – 97.
Salgado, Gabriela. Cantos/Cuentos Colombianos, Art Nexus. No. 57, Volume 3, 64 – 69.
Tiscornia, Ana. Juan Manuel Echavarría, Mouths of Ash exhibition catalogue, Charta, Milan, 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, 42 – 47.
Wagner, Nicoletta, Kolumbiens Gewalt künstlerisch umgesetzt, Neue Biircher Beitung, February 1.

2004
Arthur, Paul. Poughkeepsie powwow, Film Comment, Volume 40. No. 5, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Sept/Oct, 67 – 68.
Herzog, Hans-Michael. Conversations with Juan Manuel Echavarría, Cantos cuentos colombianos, Daros – Latinamerica AG, Zurich, 175 – 201.

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

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

2000
Aletti, Vincent. Photo Review, Village Voice, New York, NY, May 18.
Dalrymple, Theodore. Bolívar’s Platter, New Criterion, Volume 18, Number 7.
Girst, Thomas. Art and Violence: Juan Manuel Echavarría brings Colombia’s struggle to NY, NY Arts, Volume 5, Number 11, 27.
Hoffman, Frank. Report from Kwanju: Monoculture and Its Discontents, Art in America, November, 71 – 79.
Reid, Calvin. Juan Manuel Echavarría at UP & CO, Art in America, New York, NY, February, 132 – 133.
Reid, Calvin. Juan Manuel Echavarría, BOMB, New York, NY, January.
Reyes, Ana María. Juan Manuel Echavarría: Rupturas a miradas sensacionalistas, Separata Cultural de Posdata, No.133, August, 3 – 4.
Sclavo, Fidel. Los dos lados de una puerta, Separata Cultural de Posdata, No.133, August, 7.
Tiscornia, Ana. Bocas de Ceniza, Separata Cultural de Posdata, No.133, August, 5.

1999
Girst, Thomas. Relocating Politics, New York, NY Arts Magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 48.
Girst, Thomas. Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? Very, Volume 9.
Hertz, Betti Sue. The Aura of Violence in Juan Manuel Echavarría’s Escuela Nueva, Juan
Manuel Echavarría: Escuela Nueva exhibition catalogue, 5 – 9.
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 Bogotá, Editorial Norma.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. Tales of Horror, Artnet.com, May 21.
Reyes, Ana María. Rupturas y mirades sensacionalistas: Reflexiones fotográficasde Juan
Manuel Echavarría sobre la violencia en Colombia
. Bocas de Ceniza exhibition catalog, Valenzuela y Klenner, Bogotá
Rohter, Larry. In the Trauma of Barbarity, Art Speaks Out, New York, NY Times, New York, NY. October, 17, 41.
Rohter, Larry. In the Trauma of Barbarity, Art Speaks Out, International Herald Tribune, October, 23 – 24.
Tiscornia, Ana. Latin American Identity: Utopia, the Silent Witness or Coming to Terms with Uncomfortable Language, Dialogos Iberoamericanos Symposio International: La Identidad iberoamericana modernidad y postmodernidad, 151 – 159.

1998
Aletti, Vincent. Photo Review, Village Voice, New York, NY, June 2.
Sne, Martin. Fotografisk kvintet I Rundetarn, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 16.
Tiscornia, Ana. Juan Manuel Echavarría: Otras expediciones, Brecha, February 13, 26.
Tiscornia, Ana. Other Expeditions, Juan Manuel Echavarría: Corte de Florero / Flower Vase Cut catalogue, The River Press, New York, NY, 3 – 11.
Tiscornia, Ana. Juan Manuel Echavarria, Very (fall), 34 – 37.