Nicole Hixon

Nicole Hixon is a New York–based environmental sculptor whose work confronts plastic culture through transformation and reuse. For more than twenty years, she has diverted discarded materials from landfills, treating them not as trash but as evidence—artifacts of consumption within a closed planetary system.

Hixon cuts, fuses, heat-seals, and reconfigures single-use plastics alongside other reclaimed materials into anthropomorphic forms that appear to grow, molt, aggregate, and overtake their surroundings. Working with community-collected detritus as well as her own household waste—including hundreds of plastic pellet-fuel bags used annually to heat her home—she constructs speculative organisms from domestic debris. These accumulations do not decay; they persist and spread, echoing the material’s infiltration into ecosystems and bodies.

Plastic will outlive us. Hixon’s sculptures sit with this inevitability, tracing how materials designed for convenience endure far beyond their intended use. By elevating discarded plastics into evolving forms, she exposes the tension between human time and material time—between what is briefly used and what remains.

She is a 2025 NYFA/NYSCA grant recipient, 2024 Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellow, and 2025 Artist-in-Residence for the Village of Warwick. She collaborates with Wickham Works as both an artist and teaching artist.

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