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ABOUT

Daniel Correa Mejía, born in 1986, is a visual artist from Medellin, Colombia. Daniel was raised between Colombia, Brasil, and Mexico. Currently he lives, and works in Berlin. 

Correa Mejía practice combines painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing to mine imagery from his own subconscious and mythologize the landscape of his interior world. His highly symbolic figures personify various emotional states, becoming one with their scenery as contemporary society fades away and sacred, primordial knowledge is uncovered. Juxtaposing rich ultramarine with vibrant red on rough jute canvas, Mejía invokes the complimentary nature of masculine and feminine energies to summon the divine power of contrasting forces.

Portrait by Tobias Brust

Selected solo exhibitions


(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2024     Si dos particulas se unieran por un tiempo..., mor charpentier, Bogotá

2024     Cuando el derpedador está lejos: los pajaros cantan, Maureen Paley at Studio MLondon 

2023     Soy el dueño de mi casa, PPOW, New York

2023     Lucrecia, mor charpentier,Paris 

2022     Solo presentation Art Basel, mor charpentierHong Kong

2021     Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London 

2020     Soy Hombre: Duro Poco y Es Enorme La Noche, Fortnight Institute, NY (C)

2015     Die Klarheit, Colombian Embassy, Berlin 

 

Selected two-person exhibitions

2022     Cuerpos en gravedad, mor charpentier, Bogotá – with: Carlos Motta 

2016     Tú & Yo, Pony Royal, Berlin – with: Daniela Elorza

2015     A Place Never Found, Pony Royal, Berlin  – with: Shua Brotherton

 

Selected group exhibitions

2024     Queer Histories, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Julia Bryan-WilsonMASP, São Paulo (C)

2024     Ghost Image, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Galerie Judin, Berlin (C)

2024     Licked by the Waves, Museum More, Gorssel, Holland (C)

2024     Agua(s), mor charpentier, Bogotá

2024     Les Enchanées n2, frontviews, Berlin  

2023     Contra/retrato, mor charpentier, Bogotá 

2023     Outer view, inner worldMaureen Paley at Morena di Luna, Hove 

2023     When the firebird flies, Kunstverein Meissen, curated by Nicola Petek, Meissen (C)

2023     Eye to Eye, New York Academy of Art, New York

2022     I’m Not Your Mother, PPOW, New York 

2022     Our land just like a dream, MACAAL Museum, Marrakech 

2022     Life in an ivory tower, curated by Jack Siebert, New York  

2021     Here Come The Suns, curated by Uwe Henneken, Berlin

2021     Terra Nostra, mor charpentierBogotá 

2021     Days of Heartbreak, curated by Nicola Petek, Pony Royal, Berlin (C)

2021     Feldmalerei, organized by Jana Jedermann, Rohlstorf  

2021     American Boy, mor charpentier, Paris (Online)

2021     Night Watch, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown 

2021     Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (C)

2021     El Camino más Largo, MAMM Museum of Modern Art, Medellín

2020     Winter Solstice, Fortnight Institute, New York (Online) 

2020     Mind So Fast, Body So Slow, invited by Lukas Trobert, Berlin Weekly, Berlin 

2020     Uferhallen Manifest, Guest Artist at Peter Böhnisch Studio, Berlin 

2020     Landscapes of the South, Mendes Wood DM, New York  

2019     Zuhause, Pony Royal, Berlin

2019     Zwei Alter: Jung, Galerie Crone, Berlin  

2019     Guest Artist at Peter Böhnisch Studio, Eigenbedarf Uferhallen, Berlin  

2018     Abrazos, Pony Royal, Berlin

2018     Off Beat aus der Klasse Leiko Ikemura, Schaufenster, Berlin 

2018     Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

2016     Über Farbe und Form hinaus, Leuchtturm, Berlin  

2015     Recommended by, Easy!upstream, Munich

2015     Delta15, Waterwork Falkenstein, Hamburg

2015     Klasse Leiko Ikemura, Rundgang, UdK, Berlin (C)

 

Selected press and bibliography

2024      Josie Thaddeus-JohnsArtists on Our Radar, Artsy

2024      Krist Gruijthuijsen, Ghost Image, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Judin (C)

2024    Diljk, Maite van., Licked by the Waves, W Books, Zwolle (C)

2024    George Pistachio, Another Magazine, Art Basel Hong Kong

2023     Artishock, Soy el dueño de mi casa, P.P.O.W

2023     Nicola Petek, When the Firebird flies, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein Meissen (C)

2022     The Steidz, ARCO Madrid: 3 jeunes peintres qui explorent la masculinité

2021     Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz, Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London

2021     KubaParis, Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London

2021     Nicola Petek, Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin (C)

2021    Mitchell, Rory,  Ocula, ARCO Madrid Highlights

2021     Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Exhibition catalog, Mendes Wood DM (C)

2021     Rebecca Irwin, Interview with Daniel Correa Mejia, Art Maze Magazine, 

2021     Harrison, Esther, Daniel Correa Mejía: Scared Masculinity, Coeur et Art

2020     Soy Hombre: Duro Poco y Es Enorme La Noche, Artist book, Fortnight Institute (C)

2020     Art Viewer, Solo Exhibition at Fortnight Institute

2020     Cristina Cruz, Artnet, Editors`Picks 

2020     Cristina Cruz, Artnet, Editors`Picks, 

2019     Yannis Kostarias, Art Verge, Interview with Daniel Correa Mejía

2019     Kathe Mothes, yngspc, Interview with Daniel Correa Mejía 

2019     Art Maze Magazine, Interview with Daniel Correa Mejía 

2019      Chris Sharp, Art Maze Magazine, Summer Issue 14, p. 104