Monica Dixon

Monica Dixon is a visual artist living and working in Kansas City. Her multimedia practice is focused on relationships between living bodies and the forms that protect and comfort them. Monica studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute graduating with a BFA in 2011. She was a two-term resident with the Charlotte Street Foundation, has exhibited locally and internationally, and works in the public art realm.

Monica’s studio practice encompasses installation, sculpture, collage, costuming, and movement workshops. Pervasive throughout the various forms her work takes is a fascination with exploring the elusive, seemingly intangible elements of personal reality (memory, emotion, belief, etc.) through sensual experience. She constructs images, objects, spaces, and events meant to encourage playful exploration of the unknown and the uncomfortable.

Shortly after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2011, she spent a half year engaged in work exchanges on organic farms and gardens in Europe. These experiences led to investigative explorations in permaculture, anthropology, and meditation which she continued to pursue upon returning to the United States. In 2014 she lived and worked at the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda, then traveled to India. During her three months there she participated in her first Vipassana meditation and worked on a permaculture farm outside of Auroville, Tamil Nadu. After returning to the US, she lived in Brooklyn, New York before moving back to Kansas City, Missouri in 2015. She has exhibited locally as well as internationally. From 2016-2017 she was  a resident artist with the Charlotte Street Foundation. This summer was the recipient of the 2017 Art in the Loop Public Art Commission. Monica has been commissioned to create a new public installation at the Winthrop-Rockefeller Institute in Morrilton, Arkansas this coming Spring.