About the Dr. Maiza Hixson:
The Art of New Media Theatre: Staging Site-Specific Performances from the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond.
Multimodal artist, painter, performance scholar, curator, and theatre director Dr. Maiza Hixson will present on contemporary art as a transdisciplinary aesthetic practice that merges the visual and performing arts.
Hixson holds a PhD in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as Chief Curator of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts from 2010-2015, during which time she taught, performed, and lectured at Towson University in Baltimore and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She studied Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds an MFA in Fine Art from UC Santa Barbara, as well as an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies, and BA in French from the University of Louisville. She was a recent grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and her curatorial work was featured on the Emmy Award-winning PBS TV show Articulate with Jim Cotter. She was a Warhol Foundation grant recipient for Radical Participation: A Series of Four Interactive Exhibitions. Hixson also designed and curated a 5,500 square-foot group exhibition, American Idyll: Contemporary Art and Karaoke, featuring Candice Breitz, Phil Collins, and Christian Jankowski, for the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, designed by Zaha Hadid.
Hixson has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at venues such as Eisenwunderwelt in Berlin; Little Tokyo Arts Complex in Los Angeles; the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum in Santa Barbara; Highways in Santa Monica; Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York; Baltimore Contemporary; Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC; Haverford College; and many others. She is a member of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Independent Curators International (ICI), Performance Studies International (PSi), and a Lead Jury Member of Art Papers for the ACM/SIGGRAPH Vancouver 2025 Conference. SIGGRAPH stands for the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, a special interest group within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) focused on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
