María del Carmen Vivas (1984, Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian visual artist whose work explores the fragile boundaries between emotion, vulnerability, and control. Through repetitive and delicate gestures, she transforms the harshness of pain into a poetics of softness, where beauty becomes an emotional refuge—turning fear and fragility into tenderness.

The delicate and inner voice of María del Carmen Vivas is emerging as one of the most distinctive presences in Latin American contemporary art. She evokes deep emotions and sensorial experiences.

She was trained at the Instituto Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE), with complementary studies at The University of Texas at Austin and EFTI, Madrid, and completed an artistic residency at Metáfora Studio Arts (Barcelona, 2009)—an experience that shaped her interdisciplinary and multicultural vision.

Her pictorial language emerges from an exploration of human vulnerability, turning tenderness into a form of resistance. Through a method that merges technical precision and introspective sensitivity, Vivas constructs visual spaces suspended between visibility and intimacy, surface and depth. Her paintings unfold in subtle tension—between what is softly shown and what deliberately remains withheld—revealing the emotional architecture that underlies control and fragility.

Vivas has participated in group exhibitions in Peru, Spain, Panama, and Ecuador. Her recent projects include MAD Galería (Cuenca), AQ Art Fair (Quito), and CasasProject (Guayaquil). In 2026, she opened boundaries and arrived to USA, exhibiting on the LA Art Show, where she gained all the attention of the press, and the at Art Palm Beach,  reinforcing her steady international trajectory and the maturity of her artistic discourse.