Juan Manuel Echavarría
Paris Photo 2026 | Booth B17
November 12 – 15, 2026
Born in Medellín, Colombia in 1947, Juan Manuel Echavarría lives and works in New York and Bogotá. Selected exhibitions include: National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (2025); Museo Universitario de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (2023); Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2020); North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (2019); Centro Cultural Salmona, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia (2018); Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (2015); Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2015); Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France (2015); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France; traveled to Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France; Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2014); Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2012); Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (2012); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2012); Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (2012); Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011); Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (2010); Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2006); Venice Biennale, Italy (2005). His work is included in prominent public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Goetz Collection, Munich; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; and North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks. In 2017–2018, an expansive 20-year career survey exhibition was on view at MAMBO, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia. A 200-page monograph was published by Toluca Editions on this occasion. His most recent publication, Silencios (La Fábrica, 2025), is a 176-page photographic monograph dedicated to his ongoing series of the same name, first exhibited at Josée Bienvenu Gallery in New York in 2014.
