About Juan Munoz

Juan Muñoz performing Man in a Room Gambling. Photograph Stephen White

Juan Muñoz was an artist from Madrid, raised under the Franco regime. He studied at the Croydon School of Art and at the Central School of Art and Design in London before travelling to New York on a Fulbright scholarship, where he worked assisting sculptor Mario Merz. Although also working in performance and audio, he is most known for his figurative works and large scale installations with which he explored size and space; notably Double Bind, the second Unilever commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and The Wasteland, which inspired a scene in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Showing early on in his career at London's ICA and the Lisson Gallery, Muñoz went on to exhibit internationally in his lifetime. Since his death, there have been major retrospective exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Tate Modern, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.