Witness to the Invisible
Not a record of a building. A state of space.
Selected works
The exhibition draws from three series that together reveal the breadth of Murcia's practice. Architectural Reflections turns the glass facade of the contemporary city into a mirror of itself, capturing the way reflective surfaces layer and compress the built environment into dense, stratified compositions where the structures dissolve into pure chromatic rhythms. Architectural Worlds moves from the exterior to the interior, directing the lens upward through staircases, domes, and structural curves to extract from architecture its most elemental geometry. Processed through digital abstraction, these circular and spiral forms become something beyond photography, living systems, organisms, visual fields that expand outward without resolution. Architectural Convergences goes further still, folding the entire volume of a space onto a single point: each work gathers a full sphere of vision and lets it collapse inward, so that floor, ceiling and every wall arrive together in one continuous field. Taken together, the three series trace the full arc of Murcia's inquiry: from the city observed, to the city imagined, to the city gathered into a single point.
Architectural Reflections
2022–2026
The glass facade of the contemporary city as a mirror of itself — reflective surfaces layering and compressing the built environment into dense, stratified compositions.
Architectural Worlds
2022–2025
From the exterior to the interior: the lens directed upward through staircases, domes and structural curves, processed through digital abstraction until the forms become living systems rather than photographs.
Architectural Convergences
2026
A full sphere of space folded onto a single point. Each work gathers everything visible from one position — the floor, the ceiling, every wall — and lets it converge, until the room is no longer a place to stand in but a form to look at.
Juan C. Murcia — Miami, Florida
Statement
My work explores the intersection of the tangible and the ethereal within the built environment. I use the camera not to document structures, but to isolate the hidden poetry embedded within them — the tension between light and texture, transforming steel, glass and concrete into organic, separate universes.
Human vision is often limited by a linear field. My goal is to expand that perception, proving the world to be a collection of infinite, hidden ecosystems waiting to be revealed.
Juan C. Murcia
Biography
A South American architectural photographer based in Miami, Murcia bridges the heritage of his origins with the geometric modernity of contemporary urban landscapes. With over thirty years in the visual arts, he abstracts the built environment to reveal ecosystems of light, shadow and form that escape the casual observer. His practice is a continuous dialogue between structural rigidity and poetic fluidity, sitting at the intersection of photography, painting and digital abstraction.
Curatorial context
Murcia's practice sits at a compelling intersection between photographic documentation and painterly abstraction. Working with the built environment as both subject and material, he dismantles the logic of architectural photography to construct a visual language that speaks to perception itself.
Shirley Moreira
Exhibitions
Solo and group presentations in Miami, New York, Montreal and Dubai, including representation of Colombia at World Art Dubai.
| Year | Exhibition | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Art Basel Miami — Independent Exhibition | Miami, Florida |
| 2021 | Art Basel Miami — Independent Exhibition | Miami, Florida |
| 2021 | World Art Dubai — Colombian Representative | Dubai, UAE |
| 2021 | Agora Gallery | New York, USA |
| 2021 | Arte Arta | Montreal, Canada |
| Announced soon | International Exhibition | Tokyo, Japan |
| Announced soon | International Exhibition | Dubai, UAE |
Education: Brevard Community College.
Editions
All works are produced as limited-edition archival pigment prints on acid-free fine art paper. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
| Format | Dimensions | Edition | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Collector | 40 × 40 cm · 16 × 16 in | 10 + 2 AP | On request |
| Medium Gallery | 60 × 60 cm · 24 × 24 in | 5 + 2 AP | On request |
| Museum / Large | 100 × 100 cm · 40 × 40 in | 5 + 2 AP | On request |
| Grand Format | 152 × 152 cm · 60 × 60 in | 2 + 2 AP | On request |
Three works are portrait format — Architectural Dreams, Spines and Water Waves — and are available at equivalent long-edge sizes, priced from the same table. AP = artist proof. Custom formats available on request. Gallery commission structures available on request.
Viewing room
Galleries, curators and institutions receive a private selection with full pricing. Access is provided on request — please write to the studio.
Representation
Territories where the work is placed, and who to approach in each. Where no gallery is named, the work is represented directly by the studio and enquiries are answered from Miami.
| Territory | Representation | Enquiries |
|---|---|---|
| North America | United States, Canada, Mexico | Studio, direct |
| Latin America | South and Central America, Caribbean | Studio, direct |
| Europe | European Union (excluding Italy), United Kingdom, Switzerland | Studio, direct |
| Italy | All series | Maria Sierra Art & Cultural Management Consultant, Metropolitan Management cs@metropolitan-management.com |
| Middle East | GCC states and wider region | Studio, direct |
| Asia-Pacific | East Asia, South East Asia, Australia | Studio, direct |
| Rest of world | All other territories | Studio, direct |
Representation is granted by territory and by series. Exclusive arrangements are considered on a case-by-case basis; enquiries from galleries seeking exclusivity in an unassigned territory are welcome.
Copyright and reproduction
Copyright in all images is retained by the artist worldwide and is not transferred with the sale of a print. Reproduction, licensing and exhibition-catalogue use are granted separately and in writing. Requests from publishers, institutions and licensing agents go directly to the studio.
Contact
Studio
Juan C. Murcia
jcmphotos01@gmail.com
+1 305 351 3089
Miami, Florida, USA
Enquiries
Exhibition, acquisition and commission enquiries are welcome from galleries, curators, institutions and private collectors worldwide. Correspondence in English or Spanish.
Works ship worldwide, unmounted and rolled or crated to gallery specification. Shipping, framing and customs handled per destination.