Maya Dixon is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, drawing, performance, and installation. Drawing from her Indo-Afro heritage, Dixon reinterprets cultural symbols to examine Black female autonomy, collective memory, survival, and resilience. Her practice approaches making as both ritual and rebellion, engaging ancestral traditions to imagine alternate futures. 

Central to her sculptural work are gourds—prehistoric vessels that stand in for the Black female body. These forms develop horn-like protrusions read as hair, spikes, or thorns, blurring boundaries between protection, containment, and liberation. Using materials such as gourds, raffia, nylons, and hair, she constructs vessel-like forms that evoke both fragility and strength. 

Her video work centers on Liberty, a recurring, spirit-like figure who reimagines an American symbol as an embodiment of freedom for those historically denied it. Maya earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2022 and her MFA in Sculpture/Expanded Practice from Columbia University in 2025. She is currently a resident at Smack Mellon and a fellow at The Bronx Museum.