1953

Born 17 June in Madrid.

1976 - 77

Attends Central School of Art and Design, London.

1978 - 80

Receives British Council scholarship and attends Croydon School of Art,
London, and completes coursework in Advanced Printmaking.

1981 - 82

Attends Pratt Graphic Center, New York; receives Fullbright Fellowship
through North American Spanish Committee.

1984

First solo exhibition, Juan Muñoz: Últimos trabajos, at Galería Fernando
Vijande, Madrid.

1986

Exhibits sculpture El norte de la tormenta in Aperto 86, XLII Biennale di
Venezia along with a 45 rpm recording of the same title, with Spanish
composer Alberto Iglesias.

1987

First solo museum exhibition, Juan Muñoz: Sculptures de 1985 à 1987 at CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux.

1989

A Room For A Doctor of Pain, a project with Paul Robbrecht (Belgian
architect), Galería Marga Paz, Madrid.

1990

First solo museum exhibition in the United States at the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago and first solo exhibition in a public institution in the UK, Vertical Balcony Too, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.

1992

For the exhibition Doubletake at the Hayward Gallery, London, Muñoz is commissioned to make an outdoor sculpture , Untitled Monument (London), placed on a river path on the South Bank.
Muñoz is commissioned (along with other artists including James Turrell, Rebecca Horn and Janis Kounellis) by Gloria Moure and the city of Barcelona to create an outdoor sculpture in the Port Vell (Old Port) of Barcelona. Muñoz's piece is Una habitación donde siempre llueve (A Room Where it Always Rains) located at Plaça del Mar, Barcelona.

1993

Makes soundtape Building for Music (with Alberto Iglesias) for radio
broadcast during 1993 exhibition Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem, Netherlands. Makes soundtape Third Ear (with critic Adrian Searle) for radio broadcast by BBC.
Invited by BBC to participate in the television series Building Sites Europe, a series devoted to contemporary architecture in Europe (selects Jose Rafael Moneo's Museo Nacional de Arte Romano in Merida).

1994

Solo exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, features Conversation Piece, the artist's largest outdoor sculpture (twenty-two figures). The museum publishes in 1996 Silence please! Stories After the Works of Juan Muñoz with short stories by John Berger, William Forsythe, Dave Hickey, Patrick McCabe, Alexandre Melo, Vik Muniz, Quico Rivas, Luc Sante, Adrian Searle, Lynn Tillman, and Marina Warner.

1995

Residency at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

1996

Two major exhibitions: Juan Muñoz: Monologues and Dialogues curated by James Lingwood, opens at Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and travels to Museum für Gegenswartskunst, Zurich.
A Place Called Abroad, Dia Center for the Arts, New York (travels in 1997 to SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico as Street Wise).
Directs Will it be a Likeness? written and performed by John Berger,
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt. Broadcast on Hessicher Rundfunk and other German radio stations (wins Hörspiel des Jahres 1996 for the best radio program in Germany) and the BBC.

1997

A Man in a Room, Gambling with The Gavin Bryars Ensemble, commissioned by Artangel, BBC Radio, Studio One, London. Broadcast on public radio stations in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia (released as a compact disc with music by composer Gavin Bryars in 1997).

1998

Collaborates with John Berger, A Correspondence About Space, a lecture and performance at the Geheimnisse der Raumproduktion, Hamburg, May 1998.

1999

Will it be a Likeness? performed at Thik Theatre im Kornhaus, Baden,
Switzerland, November.

2000

Awarded the 'Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas', Spain.

2001

Unexpected death from a stomach haemorrhage on Tuesday 28 August 2001.