Juan Pablo Echeverri

Juan Pablo Echeverri Muñoz (22 November 1978 – 15 June 2022) was a Colombian visual artist known for his self-portraits and a reflection on self-image and stereotypes. Life and career Echeverri was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Around 1995, as he began studying visual arts at Pontifical Xavierian University, he sporadically started taking 4×5 cm pictures for his personal diaries. When this became a daily habit, the compendium of the pictures became a long-term project titled Miss Fotojapón. One year after his graduation, in 2003, Miss Fotojapón earned Echeverri a solo show at Bogotá Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, a fraction of this piece was acquired by the Museum of the Bank of the Republic for its permanent collection. In 2022, Miss Fotojapón had more than 8000 pictures, and had been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London as part of the From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition in 2017, and included in the books 500 Self-Portraits (2018) and Younger than Jesus Directory (2009), both published by Phaidon Press.