Christian Amaya Garcia is a Guatemalan-Dominican visual artist based in New York City. He explores the multiplicities of his identity through sculpture, installation, and drawing, using performance as a form of research. He considers how his body performs—its movement, flexibility, and balance—in relation to uncertainty and transition, leading him to test the context of objects and the subjectification of his identity. The precariousness of his sculptures mirrors his experience of displacement; being in an unknown state and recalling his familial experiences, then suspending it in space with an open understanding of meaning. This tension echoes the moment of a mixed martial artist tensing their muscles in the last second before impact, just before executing a strike—a connection, a knockout. He pursues the same anticipation in his work, where the circumstances of living his life are not separated from the themes of performativity, displacement, and profiling. 

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 a Design Fellowship at the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation (2022).