Juan Pablo Echeverri Muñoz (22 November 1978 – 15 June 2022) was a Colombian visual artist known for his self-portraits and a reflection on self-image and stereotypes.
[4] Around 1995, as he began studying visual arts at Pontifical Xavierian University,[5] he sporadically started taking 4×5 cm pictures for his personal diaries.
[13] Echeverri also created short series that, according to critics Jaime Cerón and Andrés Isaac, dealt with the construction of the persona and the stereotype-based perception of the "other".
[1][2] Some of these series—Fantasía de Macho maduro (2001), merengue glacé (2007), Supersonas (2011), futuroSEXtraños (2016) and Muertos Vivientes (2019)—have been displayed in venues such as the Colombian National Museum in Bogotá,[14][15] Biennial of Contemporary Art in Ireland (2018),[16] and the Rencontres d'Arles in France (2017).
[3][17] Echeverri was a close collaborator with German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans from 2012, both setting up exhibitions and as a member of some of his musical projects.