Karian Amaya (Chihuahua, Mexico, 1986) lives and works in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Karian Amaya's artistic practice focuses on the notion of encounters. Through sculpture, Amaya explores the dialogues and tensions between matter, landscape, and their social and territorial contexts. Influenced by land art and post-minimalism movements, her work draws from the formal and narrative encounter of raw, natural, and industrial materials. Daughter of a miner, Amaya reflects on the extractivisms of minerals and the fragility that these materials entail over time.

She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Guadalajara and studied Mixed Techniques at The Art Students League in New York. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. In 2015, she participated in the Mentorship Program for Migrant Artists of the New York Foundation for the Arts and was included in the Biennial of El Paso Museum of Border Art in 2016 and 2023.

She has received various recognitions, such as the Stimulus for Artistic Creation PECDA (2013-2014), the Alfaro Siqueiros Scholarship (2017), the Grodman Legacy Scholarship from the UDG Foundation (2018), the Transfers Project (2019), the Contigo a la Distancia FONCA Scholarship (2020), the HORIZONTES Jalisco Program (2020), and the Stimulus for Artistic Creation PECDA Chihuahua (2023), in the sculpture category.

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