Rixy (she/her, b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary street artist creating Sculptural Paintings + Public Art that focuses on worldbuilding stylized narratives of global femme embodiment and social healing. She is a first-generation women born in Roxbury, MA and bred by Latinx Caribbean blood, making her work rooted in the many cultures along her migration. She is primarily self-taught via the streets + institutions of her travels, that feed the upcycled materialism of her pigments, marks, and stories.
Rixy recently mounted solo shows at the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University and Montserrat College of Art, both in MA. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Rosa Projects, Oakland, CA; and the MECA Art Fair in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has collaborated with global affiliates like the NFL, Nike, and the U.S + UAE Embassy. Rixy’s private + public art activate communal walls beyond her base in New England.
She is recognized with accomplishments including New England Foundation for the Arts Newell Flather Award for Leadership in Public Art, the Now + There Public Art Accelerator Program, a Ruth Butler Fellowship to Mexico, and the Walter Feldman Fellowship. Rixy’s residencies include the Boston Center for the Arts, TheCreateWell’s Converging Liberations Residency at Mass MoCA, and a Teaching Street Artist Residency with Next Level USA hosted in Dubai, UAE. Committed to arts education along with her practice, Rixy serves as a Resident Artist + 'Elevated Spaces' Producer at Elevated Thought in Lawrence, MA, and has taught at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Teens program, Harvard University, MIT, and as a faculty member at Boston Architectural College