Published Novels
Moros en La Costa, Bogotá, Colombia, Ancora Editores, 1991
La Gran Catarata, Bogotá, Colombia, Editorial Arco, 1981
Exposições individuais
2008 FOTOLOGíA 6, Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Bogotá, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia, Juan Manuel Echavarría: Desolado, August 28 – September 28.
Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia, Monumentos, April 9 – May 10.
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Death and the River, March 6 – April 5.
2007 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Mouths of Ash, December 1, 2007 – January 18, 2008.
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, Public Manifestations of Creative Dissent, April 2007.
2006 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Mouths of Ash, June 25 – September 10.
Fotofest, Houston, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Mouths of Ash, March 10 – April 23.
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: The Witness, January
19 – February 25.
2005 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, United States, Juan Manuel Echavarria: Mouths of Ash, August 4 – September 10.
2004 Universidad de Los Andes - Centro Cultural y Deportes, Bogota, Colombia, Guerra y Pa y Otras
Series, October 13 – November 5.
2003 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück, Germany, Guerra y Pa, April 24 – May 31.
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, La Maria y Otras Series.
2001 Ministerio de Education y Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay, Bandeja de Bolivar, March 22 – April 20.
2000 Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bocas de Ceniza, July 20 – August 20.
Up & Co, New York, United States, Bandeja de Bolivar, October 27 – November 30.
1999 Emison Art Center and Gallery, DePauw University, IN, United States, Corte de Florero, March 10 – April 21.
Up & Co, New York, United States, Escuela Nueva, March 26 – May15.
1998 B & B International Gallery, New York, United States, Corte de Florero, May14 – 24.
Exposições coletivas
2008 Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, Otras Floras, October 18 – November 14.
Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, Destierro y Reparación, September 9 – November 15.
Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany, nach/sichten: video works from the Goetz Collection, September 5 – November 16.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, Los Desaparecidos, August 9 – September 24. Tabalakera, San Sebastian, Spain, NO ES NEUTRAL; Daros Latin American Collection, July 19 – October 5.
Centro José Guerrero-Diputación de Granada, Spain, Lugares comunes. La experiencia colectiva en el vídeo latinoamericano, May 29 – October 5.
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación España, La Antiqua, Guatemala, Los Desaparecidos, May 24 – July 20.
CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Viva la Muerte: Death in Hispanic Art, April 18 – June 29.
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK, Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, April 17 – June 15. Additional venues: The University of Hertfordshire Galleries and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX, Apetura Colombia, March 8 – May 18.
Central Cultural Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile, The Disappeared, March 8 – April 20.
MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Behind the Curtain: Autopsy of the Invisible, February 28 – April 14.
University Gallery, The University of Essex, UK, Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, February 21 – March 22, 2008.
Espacio Arte Actual (FLASCO), Quito, Ecuador, What Images They Want: Videos from Latin America, January 8 – February 1.
2007 Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, Once more, with feeling: Recent photography from Colombia, December 14 – February 3, 2008.
CCE / Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay, Arte, deshnora y violencia en el contexto Iberoamericano, October 19 – December 29, 2007.
Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria, Viva la Muerte: Death in Hispanic Art, October 17 – February 17, 2008.
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, The Disappeared, October 11 – January 20, 2008.
Nettie Horn, London, UK, We like it a lot, August 17 – 21.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts / Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Norwich, UK. AfterShock, Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art, July 14 – September 2.
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, United States, Comfort Zone, June 30 – August 3.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, The Hours: Visual Art of Contemporary Latin America, June 21 – September 12.
Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Puntos de Vista, Contemporary Art from the Daros-Latin American Collection, June 2 – August 26.
Espacio C de Arte Contemporaneo, Camargo, Santander, Spain, Secuencias Latinoamericanas: Interrupciones, May 18 – July 27.
Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain. Rio Revuelto - Bocas de Ceniza - April 17 – May 2.
Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. Encuentros de la Hospitalidad, April 2007.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo, España. Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, March 30 – June 24.
Valencia Bienal, Valencia, Spain. I Encuentro entre dos Mares, March 28 – June 17.
El Museo del Barrio, New York, The Disappeared, February 23 – June 17, 2007.
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain, Documentos - La Memoria Del Futuro, January
25 – March 17, 2007.
2006 Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay. The Disappeared, November 23 – January 21, 2007.
Arts Center Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, Beeldende Kunst / Video – Installaties, September 30 – October 22.
SMAK / Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, Mankind, Story of a Wound.
September 16 – November 19.
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, United States, Nothing Stands Still, September 14 – October 21.
El Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Disappeared, August 8 – October 15.
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, United States, Storytelling: History, Myth and Narrative, July 8 –
August 11.
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia, Home Ground, April 21 – June 3.
Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France, Touche L’indecible, April 15 – May 12.
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Certain Encounters: Daros-
Latin America Collection, April 7 – June 4.
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, EVA – Giveaway, March 11 – May 21.
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, ARS 06 – Sense of the Real, January 21 – August 27.
2005 Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France, Voix Off, October 16 – December 31.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin
America, October 5 – January 15 2006.
Venice Biennale, Latin American Pavilion, Italy, Biennale de Venezia, August 12 – November 6.
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, United States, The Disappeared, March 29 – June 5.
Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France, Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place), March 13 – July 9.
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, Contra el Olvido / Against Oblivion, in conjunction with: Simposio Internacional de Justicia Restaurativa y Paz en Colombia, February.
Daros-Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part I, January 29 – April 17.
2004 Daros-Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland Cantos cuentos colombianos, Part II, October 30 – January 9, 2005.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, United States, Instinctive: Latin American Artists Selected by
Mario Testino, December 4 – January 15 2005.
2003 Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, United States, Viology: Cultures of Violence / Violence of Culture, November 1 – December 12.
Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, Fotofiesta, September.
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, Still Life / Naturaleza Muerta. September 24 – November 30.
2002 Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, United States, Viology: Cultures of Violence / Violence of Culture. October 1 – November 23.
2001 MALBA / Museo de Arte Latinamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo, December.
Centro de Convenciones de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo, July.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, B & N y de Color-Latinoamérica:
Cine, Video y Multimedia. Dec 16, 2000 – March 24, 2001.
2000 Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea, Man and Space, March 29 – June 7.
Sala de la Moneda, Seville, Spain, Historia Cosmopolita Funcion Real.
1999 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia, Arte y Violencia June 1 – July 31.
International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway.
1998 Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark, Five Contemporary Colombian Photographers, February 28 – March 30.
Festivais
2008 Latin American Film Festival, CLCS, Duke University, Durham, NC, US, November 20
2007 FEM 7, Festival Edicion Madrid de Nuevos Creadoras, Madrid, Spain, September 20 – 23
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland, March 30.
Rencontre International Madrid
Programa Video Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Activar una Historia: Fricciones Urabanas, March 27.
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, University of California, Berkeley Art Musuem and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, United States, February 23.
2006 Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, November 21.
Rencontre International Paris - Berlin, Musée Jeau de Paume, French Cinémathèque,
Théâtre Paris-Villette, Cinéma l'Entrepôt, and Cinéma du Monde, Paris, November 23 – December 2.
Pulsar, Caracas, Venezuela. October 1 – November 18
Painting Ruins, Kabul, Afghanistan
2005 Salvador Allende Festival, Toronto, Canada
The Aurora Picture Show, Houston
The Kansas City Jubilee, University of Kansas
San Francisco International Film Festival,
AluCine Toronto Latino Film and Video Festival
Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Documentary Fortnight”
2004 Stuttgarder Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Balagan Film Series, Boston, United States
Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, United States
Time’s Shadow Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley University, United States
Cinema Zuid, Amsterdam, Holland.
2003 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück, Germany, European Media Arts Festival.
Stockton University, United States
Ninth Annual Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Brazil
Shadow Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
49 Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany, May 1 – 6.
2002 Art in General Video Marathon, New York, United States
2000 Festival de la Luz, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bibliografia
2008 Walker, Hollis. The Disappeared, ARTnews, March 2008, p. 146.
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,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, 2002,
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