Marya Mayan

Marya Mayan is an artist and art market strategist building one of the region's leading voices on the business of art, with more than 355K followers across platforms.
She studied Art Business at the world's top auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, trained in fine art in Florence, Italy, and is a TEDx speaker known for translating the complex mechanics of the art market into language anyone can understand. In 2019, she won first place in the Kingdom for the General Entertainment Authority's art challenge.
She is the co-founder of Mayan Art and the creator of Art Music — an original project turning art into sound, because art deserves to be heard, not only seen. She has built art collections for private collectors and corporations, most notably Jadwa Investment.
Her work sits at the intersection of cultural value and economic strategy, helping artists, collectors, and creative professionals understand how the art world really moves.