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 PPOW, New York, USA (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 (forthcoming)
2025 Cuerpos políticos, mor charpentier, Paris, France
2025 A World Far Away, Nearby and Invisible, curated by Claudia S. Campins, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA (C)
2025 Acervo em transformação, MASP, São Paulo, Brasil
2025 MAXIMAL, cur. by Sophia Süßmilch and Cathrin Hoffmann, Remise im Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
2025 Masques et Sortilèges, mor charpentier, Paris, Germany
2024 Queer Histories, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Julia Bryan-Wilson, MASP, São Paulo, Brasil (C)
2024 Ghost Image, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, 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, curated by Nicola Petek, Meissen, Germany (C)
2023 Eye to Eye, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2022 Cuerpos en gravedad, mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia – with: Carlos Motta
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, curated by Jack Siebert, New York, USA
2021 Here Come The Suns, curated by Uwe Henneken, Berlin, Germany
2021 Terra Nostra, mor charpentier, Bogotá, Colombia
2021 Days of Heartbreak, curated by Nicola Petek, 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, invited by 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
2019 Guest Artist at Peter Böhnisch Studio, Eigenbedarf Uferhallen, 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 – with: Daniela Elorza
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 – with: Shua Brotherton
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 Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting, introduction by Suzanne Hudson, Phaidon (forthcoming)
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