Felipe Echeverry

(b. 1988, Cali, Colombia)

Felipe Echeverry is a Colombian artist living and working in New York City. Originally trained as an architect in both Colombia and Argentina, his practice is rooted in a rigorous investigation of the tension between structural control and the visceral force of movement. Over a fifteen-year journey of migration, his work has transitioned from early figurative inquiries into a mature, complex language of abstract landscapes that function as sites of environmental and psychological upheaval.

Working primarily in oil, Echeverry’s recent paintings are driven by the memory of the vast sugarcane fields and the resilient caña brava of the Valle del Cauca. He reimagines these landscapes not as literal places, but as fields of raw energy and organized chaos. In these works, movement is a defiant act—a visual record of the necessity to navigate, displace, and rebuild. Traces of his architectural background remain visible as a foundational grid, providing a formal restraint against which his expressive marks exert their force.

Drawing from the gestural intensity of Willem de Kooning and the monumental presence of Georg Baselitz, Echeverry’s brushwork is both energetic and profoundly intentional. Every trace on the canvas serves as a witness to the crawling force of migration, where vegetation and fire merge into a unified exploration of resilience.

His vibrant compositions transform the act of displacement into a visual symphony of sound, nature, and the enduring human necessity for motion. Echeverry’s work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Tamayo, and Museo Kaluz in Mexico City. He has held solo exhibitions with Avant Gallery in New York and Miami, and has collaborated on multidisciplinary presentations during New York Fashion Week. His work is held in prominent private collections internationally.