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...feeling that the world is hurtling toward one disaster after another redoubles my senses of commitment to art-making that disrupts complacency. – Coco Fusco

Across three decades of intellectual and artistic research, Coco Fusco’s work has engaged with and interrogated the complexities of race, colonialism, exile, gender, identity, and the shaping of new societies. A remarkably interdisciplinary artist and writer, Fusco has significantly contributed to the disciplines of performance, video, exhibition practice, archival research, and writing. Her practice frequently reflects on conceptual and embodied existence within socio-political frameworks, plumbing the depths of representation and their effects on cultural memory.

Coco Fusco (b. 1960, New York, USA) lives and works in New York.

Fusco was the feature of the retrospective Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2023). The artist’s performances and videos have been presented at 56th Venice Biennale, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, and 1993), and many other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Art Institute of Chicago, Chciago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Barcelona. Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Barcelona. 

 

She is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award (2021), a Latinx Artist Fellowship (2021), Anonymous Was a Woman (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), an Absolut Art Writing Award (2013), and a Herp Albert Award (2003), among others. 

 

Fusco is a professor at the Cooper Union School of Art and author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015); English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995); The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001); and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999); and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). Fusco is also a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications. 

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Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, 1992.​