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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. 

 

Her most recent exhibitions include I Have Learnt to Swim on Dry Land, MACBA, Barcelona (2025); Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana (2024); Tomorrow I Will Become an Island, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2023); With Others in Mind, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2023); Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (2023); Swimming on Dry Land/Nadar en seco, Flaten Art Museum, Northfield (2019). 

Recent group exhibitions include Breaking the Mold, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2025); Collection 1980s - Present, MoMA, New York (2024); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2024); (Un)Settled, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia (2024); untranquil now, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2024); Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Globale Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Truth: 24 frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2017); The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2016); All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice (2015). 

 

The artist’s performances and videos have been presented in three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, and 1993), alongside 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; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), 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.

                                                                                                                                      

Obras Selecionadas
  • Coco Fusco, La Confesión (The Confession), tbc
    La Confesión (The Confession), tbc
  • Coco Fusco, The art of intervention: The Performance of JuanSí González, tbc
    The art of intervention: The Performance of JuanSí González, tbc
  • Coco Fusco, The Eternal Night, 2022
    The Eternal Night, 2022
  • Coco Fusco, Padilla's Shadow, 2021
    Padilla's Shadow, 2021
  • Coco Fusco, Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, 2021
    Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, 2021
  • Coco Fusco, Vivir en Junio con la lengua afuera | To Live in June with your Tongue Hanging Out, 2019
    Vivir en Junio con la lengua afuera | To Live in June with your Tongue Hanging Out, 2019
  • Coco Fusco, Words May Not Be Found, 2017 - 2018
    Words May Not Be Found, 2017 - 2018
  • Coco Fusco, La Botella al Mar de María Helena (A Message in a bottle from Maria Elena), 2015
    La Botella al Mar de María Helena (A Message in a bottle from Maria Elena), 2015
  • Coco Fusco, TED Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind, 2015
    TED Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind, 2015
  • Coco Fusco, Não Me Prenda, Eu Sou um Consumidor (Don't Arrest Me, I am a Consumer), 2014
    Não Me Prenda, Eu Sou um Consumidor (Don't Arrest Me, I am a Consumer), 2014
  • Coco Fusco, And Then the Sea Will Talk to You, 2012
    And Then the Sea Will Talk to You, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, La Plaza Vacía (The Empty Plaza), 2012
    La Plaza Vacía (The Empty Plaza), 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
    The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012
  • Coco Fusco, Morir soñando, 2011
    Morir soñando, 2011
  • Coco Fusco, The Feminine Touch, 2008
    The Feminine Touch, 2008
  • Coco Fusco, A Room of One's Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2006 - 2008
    A Room of One's Own: Women and Power in the New America, 2006 - 2008
  • Coco Fusco, Operation Atropos, 2006
    Operation Atropos, 2006
  • Coco Fusco, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, 2004
    a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, 2004
  • Coco Fusco, Sightings #3, 2004
    Sightings #3, 2004
  • Coco Fusco, Sightings #4, 2004
    Sightings #4, 2004
  • Coco Fusco, The Incredible Disappearing Woman, 2003
    The Incredible Disappearing Woman, 2003
  • Coco Fusco, Dolores from 10 to 10, 2001
    Dolores from 10 to 10, 2001
  • Coco Fusco, El Segadors / The Reapers, 2001
    El Segadors / The Reapers, 2001
  • Coco Fusco, STUFF!, 1996 - 1999
    STUFF!, 1996 - 1999
  • Coco Fusco, Paquita y Chata se arrebatan, 1996
    Paquita y Chata se arrebatan, 1996
  • Coco Fusco, The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey, 1993
    The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey, 1993
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
    The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
    The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
  • Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
    The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, 1992-1994/2019
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Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, 1992.​