Painter and printmaker Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz was born in Santiago de Chile on February 20, 1939. He studied at the Gregorio de la Fuente workshop in 1956 and enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, University of Chile, the following year. In 1962 he traveled to Rhode Island on a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the School of Design, and then again to Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Finally, he settled in New York, where he took courses at the Pratt Graphic Center. 

From 1969 to 1976 he served as adjunct professor of art at New York University. He was a member of the jury at the Arts Olympics event and in 1988 he taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Printmaker Workshop in New York. The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art hired Quiroz as curator and administrative assistant in 1986. In addition to printmaking and painting, he was an avid reader and self guided student of literature, and in 1971 he began exploring art book techniques, employing his knowledge of sculpture to create a three dimensional book of poems by Pablo Neruda. From 1986 to 1988 he served as president of the HH Silverman Publishing Company, and between 1995 and 2000 he was director of the Writer's Space at Hostos Community College. 

He currently lives and works in New York. 

Solo exhibitions:
Decor Rooms, Santiago de Chile, 1961
Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1964
Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1964
Ledesma Gallery, NY, 1964
Second Annual Exhibition of lithography, Univ. of FL, 1965
Yale University Art Gallery. Connecticut, 1966
University Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1967
Alonzo Gallery, NY, 1970
Ten Downtown, NY, 1971
Summit Art Center, NJ, 1972
Ars Concentra Gallery, Lima, Peru, 1975
Schubert Gallery. Marbella, Spain, 1977
Gloria Cortella Gallery, NY, 1978
Pacanins Gallery, Mexico City, MX, 1979
Museum of Modern Art, Guadalajara, MA, 1979
Museum of Latin American Engraving, San Juan, PR, 1980
Omar Rayo Museum, Rodalnillo, Colombia, 1984
Todd Capp Gallery, NY 1986
Euclidian and Non-Euclidian Nudes, Sutton Gallery, NY, 1986
Sutton Gallery, 1988
Juan Gomez Anthology, Works on Paper, Museo de la Nacion, Peru, 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago, 2007

Group Exhibitions:
1960 LXXI Official Hall, Santiago, Chile
1961 LXXII Official Hall, Santiago, Chile
1962 100 Prints of the Year, Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, United States
1963 Fifth National Printmakers Exhibition, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma, United States
1963 Wehye Gallery, New York, United States
1964 Amel Gallery, New York, United States
1964 14th National Print Show, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
1964 Magnet New York, Bonino Gallery, New York, United States
1964 Modern Painters as Printmakers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
1965 Amel Gallery, New York, United States
1965 Second Annual Exhibition of Litography, University of Florida, United States
1966 200 Years of Latin American Art, yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
1966 New Acquisitions, New York Public Library, New York, United States
1966 Hartford Art Foundation, Hartford, United States
1966 New York State Printmakers, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, United States
1966 15th National Print Show, Brooklyn, New York, United States
1967 Faculty Show, University Gallery, Santa Barbara, United States
1967 Gallery Couturier, Stamford, United States
1968 Britton Gallery, San Francisco, United States
1968 Munson Gallery, New Haven, United States
1969 9th Annual Print Exhibition, Potsdam, New York, USA
1971 Interantional Print Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
1971 First National Print Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
1971 17th National Print Show, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
1971 Duncan Collection of Latin American Paintings and Drawings, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, United States
1972 Large Prints, Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York, United States
1972 III Latin American Print Exhibition Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1973 Prints from the Collection of New York University, Hudson River Museum, New York, United States
1974 Latin American Prints from the Museum of Modern Art, Traveling Exhibition, United States
1974 Biennial of Drawing, Rijka, Yugoslavia
1974 Recorders from New York, ICPNA, Lima, Peru
1974 Levitan Gallery, New York, United States
1976 Salon de Noir et Blanc de la Gravure, Montreal, Canada
1976 Galerie Balcon les Images, Montreal, Canada
1976 Prints and Technique, Gray Art Gallery, New York University, United States
1976 III American Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cali, Colombi
1976 Looking Inside: Latin American Presence in New York, Latin American Museum of Art, New York, United States
1977 Ten Downtown Anniversary Show, New York, United States
1977 Ljublana Biennial, Yugoslavi
1977 Hispanic American Biennial, Madrid; Spain
1977 Solidarity Show, Cayman Gallery, New York, United States
1978 Pleiades Gallery, Soho, New York, United States
1979 VI Latin American Biennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico
1980 Six Chilean Artists, De Armas Gallery, Miami, United States
1980 Prints, Museo de Barrio, New York, United States
1985 Art Consult Gallery, Boston, United States
1985 Attitude Gallery, New York, United States
1986 VIII San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Engraving, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1986 The Contemporary Master Printmakers from Latin America, Hostos Community College Art Gallery, New York, United States
1986 Art Consult International Gallery, Boston, United States
1986 Subject: Women, Todd Capp Gallery, New York, United States
1986 Sacred Secrets, Todd Capp Gallery, Boston, United States
1988 The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, United States
1988 Biennial of Engraving, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, United States
1988 Alena Adlung Gallery, New York, United States
1988 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Exhibition 88, Summit, New Jersey, United States
1989 IX International Biennial of Art, Valparaíso, Chile
1989 The Dead Blimpie Show II, New York, United States
1989 St. Lifer Art Exchange, New Jersey, United States
1991 Travel Effects, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1996 Paula Rieloff Gallery, New York, United States
1994 Printmaking Workshop Traveling Show to Africa
1995 Printmaking Workshop Traveling Show to Latin America
2004 First Engraving Festival, Museo de la Nación, Lima, Peru