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.

2026     El amor se esconde como un animal salvaje, PPOW, New York (forthcoming)

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

2024     Cuando el derpedador está lejos: los pajaros cantan, Maureen Paley at Studio M, London, UK 

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

2023     Lucrecia, mor charpentier, Paris, France 

2022     Solo presentation Art Basel, mor charpentier, Hong Kong

2021     Amor y Agua, Public Gallery, London, UK 

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

2015     Die Klarheit, Colombian Embassy, Berlin, Germany  

Selected group exhibitions

2026     A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA

2026     Miettinen Collection: Body Politics, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2025     Cuerpos políticos, mor charpentier, Paris, France

2025     A World Far Away, Nearby and Invisible, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA (C)

2025     Acervo em transformação, MASP, São Paulo, Brasil

2025     MAXIMAL, Remise im Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany

2025     Masques et Sortilèges, mor charpentier, Paris, Germany

2024     Queer Histories, MASP, São Paulo, Brasil (C)

2024     Ghost Image, Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany (C)

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

2024     Agua(s), mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia

2024     Les Enchanées n2, frontviews, Berlin, Germany  

2023     Contra/retrato, mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia 

2023     Outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley at Morena di Luna, Hove, UK 

2023     When the firebird flies, Kunstverein Meissen, Meissen, Germany (C)

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

2022     Cuerpos en gravedad, mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia

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

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

2022     Life in an ivory tower, 75 Kenmare St, New York, USA  

2021     Here Come The Suns, Köthener Straße 28, Berlin, Germany

2021     Terra Nostra, mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia 

2021     Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany (C)

2021     Feldmalerei, organized by Jana Jedermann, Rohlstorf, Germany  

2021     American Boy, mor charpentier, Paris (Online)

2021     Night Watch, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, USA 

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

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

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

2020     Mind So Fast, Body So Slow, Lukas Trobert, Berlin Weekly, Berlin, Germany 

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

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

2019     Zuhause, Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany

2019     Zwei Alter: Jung, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany  

2018     Abrazos, Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany

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

2018     Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany

2016     Über Farbe und Form hinaus, Leuchtturm, Berlin, Germany  

2016     Tú & Yo, Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany

2015     Recommended by, Easy!upstream, Munich, Germany

2015     Delta15, Waterwork Falkenstein, Hamburg, Germany

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

2015     A Place Never Found, Pony Royal, Berlin, Germany 

Collections

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach

MACAAL - Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Marocco 

MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo

MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno Medellín

Perez Art Museum, Miami

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Madrid

Selected press and bibliography

2026     Phaidon Editors. Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting.Phaidon, New York, NY, 2026 

2025     Adriano Pedrosa, ed. Queer Histories. Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2025. Illus. pp. 280. (C)

2025     Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Exposiciones individuales, ArtNexus

2025     Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, El arte íntimo de Daniel Correa Mejía, Letra Urbana

2025     Juliette Amoros, Editors’ picks: 8 unmissable projects at Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel

2024     Fernando Ticoulat, ed.. Dias Teixeira, Marina, Abdalla, Yasmin, Sun Dreams – Art Mirages in Latin America.” Act Editora, Brazil.

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, 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