Michael Dixon
Office: Bobbitt Visual Arts Center 204
Email: mdixon@albion.edu
Phone: (517) 629-0373
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Michael Dixon is an oil painter born in San Diego, California. He is currently a full professor of art at Albion College.
His imagery explores 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 informed his work.
Education
- M.F.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005
- B.F.A., painting and drawing, Arizona State University
Courses
- Art 121: Drawing
- Art 222: Advanced Drawing (Figure)
- Art 231: Painting I
- Art 331: Painting II
- Art 332: Painting III
- Art 333: Painting Workshop
- HSP 172: Process & Paint
Areas of Interest
Painting and Drawing
Publications
Dixon has received numerous artist residencies including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Joan Mitchell Center. His works can be found in the personal collections of artists Nick Cave and Beverly McIver, and in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African Art. Dixon has been shown both nationally and internationally at museums, universities, art centers, alternative spaces, and galleries.
Awards
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant, Blanchard Fellowship, and Phi Beta Kappa Scholar of the Year Award.