[forename] Christian
[surnames] Amaya Garcia
amayachristianj[at]gmail.com
Christian Amaya Garcia is a visual artist based in New York, NY.
Amaya Garcia works with drawing, video, and sculpture, using performance as a mode of research. His practice examines the body as both score and material to indicate movement and temporality. In his drawings, he speculates towards a choreographic score and diverts from legibile completion. His videos display performances recorded in the studio that are not initially intended for a viewer and explores exhaustion of a preliminary score. His work in sculpture and installation involve arrangements of construction materials and obsolete objects that draw in space and suspend an action. Amaya Garcia engages failure and multiplicity as gestures that rupture and refuse immediate meaning.
Amaya Garcia received his BFA in Painting at Lehman College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2023. He was awarded residencies and fellowships at Smack Mellon; the Vermont Studio Center; FABnyc; and the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation. His work has been exhibited at The Compound, Baltimore, MD; Mimo, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY, amongst others. He is currently a 2025-2026 participant at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York, NY.
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[surnames] Amaya Garcia
amayachristianj[at]gmail.com
Christian Amaya Garcia is a visual artist based in New York, NY.
Amaya Garcia works with drawing, video, and sculpture, using performance as a mode of research. His practice examines the body as both score and material to indicate movement and temporality. In his drawings, he speculates towards a choreographic score and diverts from legibile completion. His videos display performances recorded in the studio that are not initially intended for a viewer and explores exhaustion of a preliminary score. His work in sculpture and installation involve arrangements of construction materials and obsolete objects that draw in space and suspend an action. Amaya Garcia engages failure and multiplicity as gestures that rupture and refuse immediate meaning.
Amaya Garcia received his BFA in Painting at Lehman College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2023. He was awarded residencies and fellowships at Smack Mellon; the Vermont Studio Center; FABnyc; and the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation. His work has been exhibited at The Compound, Baltimore, MD; Mimo, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY, amongst others. He is currently a 2025-2026 participant at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York, NY.
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