Karian Amaya is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Education and Artistic Expression (MEEPA) at the University of Guadalajara. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the same university and studied Mixed Media at The Art Students League of New York. She has participated in various artist residency programs and international exhibitions that have enriched her practice. Among her most notable achievements are her participation in the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2015) and being awarded a grant from the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) 2025–2028. She has exhibited at the Bienal de la Frontera in 2015 and 2023 at the El Paso Museum of Art, and was selected for the Residency Unlimited program in New York (2018). She was an artist-in-residence at Calla Alliance/PAOS Guadalajara and the ASU Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona (2019), as well as at Fundación Casa Wabi (2022). In 2025, she will participate in a collaborative project with Cerámica Suro. She has received numerous awards, including the Alfaro Siqueiros Grant (2017), the Grodman Legacy Fellowship awarded by the UDG Foundation USA (2018), the Proyecta Mobility Grant (2019), Contigo a la Distancia FONCA (2020), the HORIZONTES Jalisco Program (2020), and the State Council for Culture and the Arts (CECA) Grant (2022–2023) in the sculpture category. Amaya has held thirteen solo exhibitions, including Broken Symmetry (2025), Museo Plataforma Arte Contemporáneo, Proyecto La Esquina, in collaboration with Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, Jalisco; Reflections of the Earth, La Galería Rebelde, curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, Guatemala; For Everything that is Built, Something is Destroyed (2023–2025), a traveling exhibition at Museo Casa Redonda and Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez, curated by Maya Escárcega; Rebirth of the Earth (2023), Fundación Casa Wabi Sabino, curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, Mexico City; Displacing the Landscape (2023), Museo Ex Convento del Carmen, curated by Rubén Méndez; Fractured Landscapes (2020), Galería Libertad, Querétaro, curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa; and Analogies of Distance (2019), Lasalita Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Elena Ketelsen. Throughout her career, she has participated in over fifty group exhibitions. Highlights include Construir, Habitar, Crear (2024), Museo San Ildefonso, Mexico City, organized by Fundación Casa Wabi; Atelier: Sculpture as a Medium of Exploration (2024), Museo de las Artes (MUSA), curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa; Cortezas (2023), Salón Siempre Sí, curated by Josephine Dorr, Mexico City; PS. I Hate You: Contemporary Postcards from a Ruined World (2023), La Galería Rebelde, curated by Joss Pinto, Guatemala; Looking North (2023), YI Gallery, New York, curated by Cecilia Yueyi; Craft and Matter (2018), Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), curated by Viviana Kuri Haddad, Zapopan, Jalisco; and Rituales de la Indolencia (2017), Cuadro 22 Gallery, Chur, Switzerland.