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[forename] Christian
[surnames] Amaya Garcia

b. New York, NY, USA
lives and works in New York

amayachristianj[at]gmail.com


Christian Amaya Garcia is a visual artist based in New York. He uses concepts like precarity, tension, catharsis, transition, and in/visibility to reflect his personal and historical themes of performativity, displacement, and uncertainty.

Amaya Garcia received his BFA at Lehman College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2023. He was awarded fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center (2023); the Young Artist of Color Fellowship at FABnyc (2023); and the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation (2022).

He is an artist-in-residence for the 2024-2025 Artist Studio Program at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY.

CV upon request.

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