Maya Dixon is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Drawing from her upbringing in the Bronx and her Indo-Afro heritage, Maya Dixon reinterprets cultural symbols to critique systems of power, explore identity, resilience, and historical memory. Maya Dixon’s work investigates the tension between tradition and reinvention, often engaging with materials and forms that evoke ancestral connections. Through both figuration and abstraction, she examines how marginalized identities navigate histories of oppression. Currently, her sculptural work features gourds—prehistoric vessels that stand in for the Black female body. In her work, the gourds are entities that have grown their own defenses with emerging horns—read as hair, spikes, or thorns—they blur the line between containment and liberation. Her video work centers on a recurring character, Liberty, a reimagined American symbol. Liberty appears in shifting forms—a spirit-like, enigmatic figure who embodies freedom for those denied it. Maya Dixon earned her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2022 and her MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University in 2025.