Origin: Colombia
Based in: Colombia

Year of birth: 1965

Juan Ricardo Mejía is a Colombian architect and visual artist whose work is shaped by a sustained engagement with the city, urbanism, and architecture. Working across visual structures, line, and geometry, Mejía creates compositions that invite the viewer to consider not only place itself, but also the shifting relationship between the individual and the environment. His work suggests that meaning does not lie solely in the landscape or urban setting, but in the changing ways human beings occupy, interpret, and adapt to it.

His practice also engages with questions of displacement, abandonment, adaptation, and survival, particularly in relation to neighbourhoods and urban zones in Colombia and elsewhere. Rather than functioning only as urban analysis, his work brings these concerns into dialogue with emotion, identity, and cultural expression, giving his practice both conceptual depth and social resonance.