Juan Manuel Echevarria (Colombia 1947) is a writer becoming an artist based in Medellin, Colombia.

His work has been shown at El Museo del Barrio in NYC as well as at the Cartier Foundation and the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. His first solo exhibition in the US "Mouths of Ash", was organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2005.

Echevarria deal in his work with the violence and civil conflicts that have plagued Colombia in the 20th century till today.

His images are taken in a typological way and in series about violence, drug trade and the Rise of Paramilitary Groups to mention a few.

Text by: Juan Manuel Echavarria, Thomas Girst, Yolanda Sierra, Leopoldo Munera, Fernando Grisalez