MichaelDixon Bio
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Michael Dixon is a master painter working primarily in oil paint. He was born and raised in San Diego, California. Dixon is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Albion College a four-year liberal arts campus in Michigan. His work has been shown nationally at museums, universities, art centers, alternative spaces, and galleries. Some of these spaces include The Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona; The Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana; Miami-Dade College in Florida; The Durham Art Guild in North Carolina; The Marwen in Chicago, Illinois; and Evolve the Gallery in Sacramento, California. Dixon 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.