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 M, London
2023 Soy el dueño de mi casa, PPOW, New York
2023 Lucrecia, mor charpentier,Paris
2022 Solo presentation Art Basel, mor charpentier, Hong 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-Wilson, MASP, 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 world, Maureen 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 charpentier, Bogotá
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)
Collections
MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo
MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno Medellín
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Madrid
Perez Art Museum, Miami
MACAAL - Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech
Selected press and bibliography
2025 Juliette Amoros, Editors’ picks: 8 unmissable projects at Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel
2024 Ticoulat, Fernando. Ed. Dias Teixeira, Marina, Abdalla, Yasmin, Sun Dreams – Art Mirages in Latin America.” Act Editora, Brazil. (C)
2024 Josie Thaddeus-Johns, Artists 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