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. AUTHOR: Juan Manuel Echavarria was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1947. He resides in Bogota. A writer before becoming an artist, he published two novels, La gran catarata (Bogota: Editorial Arco, 1981) and Moros en la costa (Bogota: Ancora Editores, 1991). As of 2015 Echavarria has presented over thirty solo exhibitions and participated in well over a hundred group exhibitions, screenings and film festivals. His first solo gallery exhibition was in New York in 1998.