ARTIST PROFILE

karian amaya

  • Mexico (b. 1986)
  • Currently in Guadalajara, Mexico.
  • With a body of work focused primarily on contemporary art using installation, sculpture, drawing, and photography. Working and living between Mexico and New York City.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

  • I WAS BORN IN THE DESERT, ARTERE-A arte contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2015

  • La nothingness, JAVA PROJECT, New York, United States.

2014

  • What I Know About the Impossibility of Life , Diéresis Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

  • Rituales de la indolencia , Cuadro 22 Gallery, Chur, Switzerland.

2016

  • INDOCUMENTADOS, ROYAL PALM BEACH- ART BASEL MIAMI, Miami, United States.
  • Sálvese quien pueda , Museo de la Ciudad , Guadalajara, Mexico.
  • PROMETEO, Museo de arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2015

  • Bienal El Paso/Juarez, El paso museum of contemporary art , El paso , United States.
  • A FALSE HORIZON: ART FROM LATIN AMERICA, Chelsea , New York, United States.
  • Salón Acme , Archipielago, México D.F., Mexico.

2014

  • Wythe Hotel , Wythe Hotel Show, New York, United States.
  • This Event May Be Occurring In Another Context , La Fabrica Gallery , New York, United States.
  • El no hacer, Contemporary art museum MAC8, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

2013

  • No need for prophecies , Diéresis Gallery, Guadalajara , Mexico.
  • Arte careyes , La Brignonesca Gallery, Careyes, Mexico.
  • Tinnitus y fosfenos, Museo de arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara , Mexico.

2012

  • UNM2 Young artist fair, Demetria Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2011

  • Mirages, Casa Redonda Museum , Chihuahua, Mexico.
  • exhibition of visual arts students organized by UNESCO, Capilla Tolsa , Hospicio Cabañas , Guadalajara, Mexico.

LOCATION

  • Born 1986 in Mexico.
  • Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.

EDUCATION

  • 2014 - 2015
    Art students league of New York, New York, United States
    mixed media in
  • 2008 - 2012
    University of Guadalajara (UDG), Guadalajara, Mexico
    Visual arts in Photography

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2017
    Young creators anual fellowship PECDA
    Alfaro Psiqueiros fellowship, Chihuahua, Mexico
  • 2015
    Inmigrant Artist Mentoring Program
    NYFA New York Foundation for the arts , New York, United States
  • 2014
    Young creators anual fellowship PECDA
    Fondo Estatal para la Cultura & las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • 2012
    Young artist award / First prize and acquisition of the piece
    unm2 Young Artist Fair, Guadalajara, Mexico

RESIDENCIES

  • 2018
    RU RESIDENCY, RU UNLIMITED, NEW YORK, United States
  • 2017
    INDOCUMENTADOS EN MARAIKA, INDOCUMENTADOS, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • 2017
    EL GANZO RESIDENCY PROGRAM, El ganzo , Los cabos, Baja California. , Mexico
  • 2015
    JAVA STUDIOS RESIDENCE, JAVA, New York, United States
  • 2013
    OA OFICINA DE ARTE RESIDENCY, Oficina de Arte , DF, Mexico

COLLECTIONS

  • Lopez Rocha Collection, Mexico
  • COLECCION DIERESIS, Mexico
  • IVAN CORDERO COLLECTION, Mexico