Juan Echeverri

Juan Echeverri (born November the 22nd of 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian artist known for his work focused on self-portraits and the reflection on self-image and stereotypes.https://ceronresumido.com/Juan-Pablo-Echeverri-el-cuerpo-y-sus-fantasiashttps://www.artnexus.com/es/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5d64114690cc21cf7c0a3a9e/90/juan-pablo-echeverrihttps://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/artistes/view/250/juan-pablo-echeverri. 
== Life and career ==
Echeverri studied Visual Arts in the Universidad Javeriana, were he graduated in 2002. Around 1995, he sporadically started taking 4x5 cm pictures for his personal diaries and, once this became a daily habit, the compendium of the pictures became a long-term project titled Miss Fotojapón https://www.vice.com/es/article/avmxxg/estas-invitado-a-los-15-de-miss-foto-japon. In 2003, Miss Fotojapón earned Echeverri a solo show in the Bogotá Museum of Modern Arthttps://www.vice.com/es/article/avmxxg/estas-invitado-a-los-15-de-miss-foto-japonhttps://www.elespectador.com/el-magazin-cultural/250-fotos-para-salir-del-closet-article-87550/.In 2010, a fraction of this piece was acquired by the Museum of the Bank of the Republic, the leading institution in contemporary art of the country, for its permanent exhibition Ires y venireshttps://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte/obra/miss-fotojapon-ap5094https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMLB9zqHI6Q. In 2022, Miss Fotojapón had more than 8000 pictures, and had been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery of London as part of the "From Selfie to Self-Expression" exhibition of 2017 http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/30/selfie-as-art-at-saatchi-gallery-from-rembrandt-to-a-grinning-macaquehttps://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/reviews/19024-from_selfie_to_self-expression_at_the_saatchi_gallery_london/https://www.artsy.net/show/saatchi-gallery-from-selfie-to-self-expression, and included in the books "500 Self-Portraits" (2018) https://www.phaidon.com/store/art/500-self-portraits-9780714875958/https://www.hungertv.com/feature/seven-seminal-self-portraits-through-the-ages/ and "Younger than Jesus Directory" (2009), both published by Phaidon Press url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/print-ephemera/7145.
Parallel to Miss Fotojapón, Echeverri has created some short series that, according to some critics, deal with the construction of the persona and the stereotype-based perception of the "other" https://ceronresumido.com/Juan-Pablo-Echeverri-el-cuerpo-y-sus-fantasiashttps://www.artnexus.com/es/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5d64114690cc21cf7c0a3a9e/90/juan-pablo-echeverri. Some of these series, like Fantasía de Macho maduro (2001), merengue glacé (2007), SUPERSONAS (2011), futuroSEXtraños (2016) y MUERTOS VIVIENTES (2019), have been displayed in venues as Bogotá's Colombian National Museum https://www.museonacional.gov.co/noticias/Paginas/Juntos_Aparte.aspxhttps://bienalsur.org/es/single_agenda/296, Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art of 2018 https://www.eva.ie/artist/juan-pablo-echeverri/, and the Rescontres de la Photographie of Arles of 2017 https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/artistes/view/250/juan-pablo-echeverrihttp://www.rencontres-arles.com//en/expositions/view/149/la-vuelta. 
Category:Colombian people
Category:1978 births
Category:Colombian artists