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I was born 1976 in San Diego, CA. I received a MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Arizona State University. I am an Assitant Professor at Albion College in Albion, MI. |
| About the Artist | |
I am predominantly a figurative painter but have also ventured into performance art and video art. As a bi-racial person of color, I explore the personal, societal, and aesthetic struggles of belonging to both "white" and "black" racial and cultural identities, yet simultaneously belonging fully to neither. The works of artists such as Robert Colescott, Beverly McIver, Michael Ray Charles, Glenn Ligon, and Kerry James Marshall have influenced my work. The content of my work is concerned with perceptions of bi-racial identity as it relates to “whiteness”, “blackness”, and “otherness”. These identities are fluid and racialized. They are all subject to, and defined by, a dominant “white” culture. Some of the symbols and methods that I use in the paintings to qualify these experiences of a fluid bi-racial identity include blackface and whiteface. |
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I Used To Spy On White People, Blend Into Their Crowd, Let Them Think I Was One of Them
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You Don't Know About Me... The New Face of America
2006 |
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She Is A Beauty, Seductive, Slender, and Black
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Not Too Black
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With A Hand That Was Black And Bloody
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I Surround Myself With Bodies Darker Than Myself, Hoping the Color Might Rub Off On Me
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Crave A Shit Eatin Grin
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I Hopes I Shall Hab De Honor Ob Displeasing You All
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Ellegua vs. Sambo
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Past, Present, Future
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I Neeld Te De Buzzard, An Bou'd To De Crow, An I Ain't Goin' To Neel No Mo
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Shake Him Shake Him You Cannot, Break Her Break Her for She's the Prancin Dancin Sambo's Sister
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Sailor Ray Rumph Wouldn't Have No Mixed Grandson
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I Often Felt Stuck In The Middle And Didn't Want To Admit It
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Vital Force Esu Has Arrived, Child That Seperates, Splits, and Divides The Road
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Bring Back Those Old Faces in Black, Features We All Love So...
2007 |
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| Education M.F.A. 2005 University of Colorado at Boulder (summa cum laude) Discipline: Painting B.F.A. 1999 Arizona State University (cum laude) Discipline: Painting and Drawing Certificate 2000 University of Advancing Computer Technology Discipline: Advanced Multimedia Exhibitions 2008 Sambo Scratches His Naval and Watches His Crazy Sister, The Dairy Center, Boulder, CO (solo) The Portrait, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ (group) 2007 Arizona Biennial ’07, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (juried by Dianne Perry Vanderlip) Worlds In Common, Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix, AZ (juried) TOAST, CU Art Building, Boulder, CO (group) Here/Now, Ghost Gallery, Phoenix, AZ (group) Mapendo International Art Show, The East Evergreen Home For Painters, Phoenix, AZ (group) Phoenix College Fall Faculty Show, Phoenix College Downtown, Phoenix, AZ (group) Art Detour 2007, Downtown Art Project, Phoenix, AZ (group) 2006 American Democracy Project - Raise your Voice, CMSU Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO (group) New Paintings and Sculptures By Michael Dixon and Tim Hernandez, Phoenix College Downtown, Phoenix, AZ (group) Mixed Perceptions, The East Evergreen Home For Painters, Phoenix, AZ (solo) Phoenix College Fall Faculty Show, Phoenix College Downtown, Phoenix, AZ (group) Phoenix College Spring Faculty Show, Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ (group) The TV Show, The East Evergreen Home For Painters, Phoenix, AZ (group) The Nightmare Continues…, Art Foundry Galley, Sacramento, CA (group) 2005 Composite, MFA Thesis Exhibition, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (group) Trading Voices: Arizona/Colorado Juried Exhibition, The Arvada Center, Arvada, CO (juried by Marilyn A. Zeitlin and Dianne Perry Vanderlip) Culture As Mirror, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO (juried by Patty Ortiz) 3rd Annual Fundraiser Art Show, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO (group) WMST Cottage, UC Boulder Campus, Boulder, CO (invitational) 2004 Visions of the North, The Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico, Curator: George Rivera, Professor of Art, University of Colorado at Boulder, catalogue (invitational) 2nd Annual Fundraiser Art Show, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO (group) Mapping, Sybell Wolf Art Building, UC Boulder, Boulder, Co (group) 2002 Student Art Exhibit, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA (juried) 2001 Pledge and Pathology, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA (solo) 2000 No Red Dots II, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art Museum, Tucson, AZ (group) To Be Or Not To Be, Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo) The Figure In Me, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (solo) As We Know It, The Lucky Dragon, Tempe, AZ (group) 1999 ASU Painting and Drawing Show, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (juried) Beeloe’s Café, Tempe, AZ (juried) Performances/Screenings 2005 Diversity In-Action, UC Boulder Campus, outside, Boulder, CO, September (solo performance) Nigger Steak, UC Boulder Campus, outside, Boulder, CO, August (solo performance) 2004 Four More Days Till X-mas, BMOCA, Boulder, CO, November (group performance) White Bread Scream, BMOCA, Boulder, CO, November (solo performance) Four More Days Till X-mas, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, November (group performance) White Bread Scream, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, November (solo performance) Flag Piece, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, November (group performance) Invisibility, UC Boulder Campus, outside, Boulder, CO, October (solo performance) Flag Piece, UC Boulder Campus, Norlin Library courtyard, Boulder, CO, October (group performance) Burden, UC Boulder Campus, outside, Boulder, CO, September (solo performance) His-Story, School of Education, UC Boulder, Boulder, CO, September (solo performance) Race Matters, UC Boulder Campus, Sybell Wolf Art Building, UC Boulder, Boulder, CO, August (solo performance) Decked In The Face Without Reason, Sybell Wolf Art Building, UC Boulder, Boulder, CO (video screening) Collaborations 2006 American Dream… I Guess, Pedestrian, Phoenix Art Detour ‘06, Phoenix, AZ |
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| 2008 Sambo Scratches His Naval and Watches His Crazy Sister, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ (solo) |
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| Website: www.michaeldixonart.com | |
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