Maxi Hawkeye Canion (they/she) is a Brooklyn based Performance Artist. As a Black Queer artist, they distill their life experiences through movement focused installations that experiment with text, format, sculpture, sound, and garment. Their work illustrates the nuances of intimacy, failure, the grotesque, and ephemerality, centering on non-linear, autobiographical narratives. Each narrative is propelled by eclectic personas serving as metaphorical embodiments of their socio-political stances. As a creator, they recently were a 2024/2025 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks artist and have had residencies at Chocolate Factory Theater, Art OMI, BOFFO Performance Festival 2022, Otion Front Studio, the Galim Moving Artist Residency 2023, to name a few. Their work has recently been presented for Fresh Tracks: New Works at New York Live Arts, SQUIRTS at LaMama Experimental Theater, Les Urbaines Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, Black Aesthetics at Judson Memorial Church and SFX Festival 2024 at Wild Project. As a performer, Maxi has collaborated with notable artists such as Buffy Sierra, VLA, Ella W-S, Akira Uchida, Theo Triantafyllidis, Eve Tagny, Alexandra Waierstall, Ryan Ponder McNamara, Miles Greenberg, Sigrid Lauren, J. Bouey, slowdanger, Shikeith, Monica Mirabile, Richard Kennedy, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Sidra Bell, among others.
