Pasto Chamber of Commerce Exhibition. Pasto
Exhibition Popular Art. Artesanias de Colombia. Bogotá
Represented Colombia at The Latin American Popular Art. Organised by Pontificia Catolica de Chile University. Santiago de Chile.
Colombo-Ecuatorian Culture Fair. Pasto
Selected by Partners of Americas, to represent Colombia at The Art Popular Art Fair. Charleston. Carolina del Sur. US
Artesanías de Colombia invited him to represent Colombia at the Art Fair in Koblenz. Mainz. Germany
Barniz, Arte y Piel. Club El Nogal. Bogotá.
The Uruchi Exhibition in Tokyo. Invited by Japanese institutions and Osaka University to exhibit “the lacquer of the Americas”.
Individual Exhibition. Colombian Embassy. London
Collective Exhibition. Containers from Latin America. Otumpa Gallery. Londres.
Individual Exhibition. Series of Great Masters. Otumpa Gallery. London.
Exhibition Centenarian. Academia Nariñense de Historia(History Academy of Narino). Pasto.
Exhibition. IV Salón de Pintura de Nariño. Gobernación de Nariño. Pasto.
Tribute to The Barniz de Pasto, Artesanías de Colombia. Bogotá
Medal awarded by the President of Colombia Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. (Bogotá 1978)
Ministry of Economic Development and Artesanías de Colombia. (Bogotá 1978)
National competition, Galería Cano. (Bogota 1986)
Best Artist National Award. Galería Cano. (Bogotá 1988)
Appointed as a member of the board of Artesanías de Colombia by the President of Colombia Cesar Gaviria Trujillo.1989
Exaltado por el consejo municipal de san Juan de Pasto, como Maestro de Maestros.
(Master attributive), medal awarded by the Town Hall (Pasto, 1989)
Medal awarded for the contribution of his investigations and the development of the technique of The Barniz de Pasto. The Corporation of Financial Development. (Bogotá 1993)
First place in the “5a Muestra de Artesanias Iberoamericana” world competition organised by UNESCO. (Tenerife, 1994)
Medal awarded for raising international awareness of the Barniz de Pasto and his artistic endeavours. (Pasto, 1995)
First place “Morada del Sur” awarded by the Council “Gestion Nariño” for participation in worldwide competitions and bringing pride to Nariño through Barniz de Pasto. (Bogotá 1998)
First place “Xa Muestra de Artesania Iberoamericana”. Central and South American competition organised by UNESCO and Venezuelan Cultural Ministry. (Lecheria, Anzoategui, Venezuela 2002)
Homage to Munoz Lora’s comitment with the Barniz de Pasto; organised by The Cultural Magazine Correo del Sur. (Pasto. 2004).
Maximo Award given by the Governor of Narino. (Pasto, 2004).
Homage to Eduardo Munoz Lora as a Cultural Promotor. Diario Del Sur. Regional newspaper. (Pasto. 2012).
Special recognition for his invaluable contribution to the preservation of the regional identity. IV salón BAT “Identidad Regional”. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. (Bogotá. 2013)
Special Award for his contribution to the preservation of the native traditions and to his commitment to the development of the craft sector in Colombia. (Bogotá. 2014, Palacio de Nariño)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), awarded Eduardo Munoz Lora with the UNESCO Award of Excellence (Cuenca. Ecuador 2014).
As is tradition in each version of the BAT Salon of popular art, a recognition is made to a popular artist whose trajectory and technique have achieved wide recognition. For the fifth call of the BAT Salon of popular art, Colombia Pluriethnic and Multicultural, the organizing committee has decided to pay tribute to Maestro Eduardo Muñoz Lora, who with the ancestral technique of the mopa-mopa or Barniz de Pasto, have earned him a Great national and international recognition as one of the most outstanding popular artists, it was not for nothing that UNESCO nominated him last year to the Unesco Recognition of Excellence, Andean Region 2014. Considering the quality and excellence demonstrated in the knowledge of the trade, its authenticity as an expression Of the cultural identity, its innovation and original in the design.
“The BAT Salon of Folk Art is the only space that exists to recognize the work of the empirical artists, it is a very valuable support with which we count the artists in the regions, it is the alive expression of the town”, affirmed the outstanding artist.
