Coco Fusco

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Coco Fusco, Artist and Professor, Cooper Union, Brooklyn, USA

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Latinx Art Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, 1993) and other international exhibitions. Her works are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). She is the 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 represented by Alexander Gray Associates of New York City and is a Professor of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The solo retrospective of Fusco’s works, Tomorrow I Will Become an Island, opens at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, in September 2023, accompanied by a monograph published by Thames & Hudson.


Coco Fusco, artista y profesora, Cooper Union, Brooklyn, EE. UU.

Coco Fusco es escritora y artista interdisciplinaria. Ha recibido numerosos premios, entre ellos, una beca Guggenheim, un premio de la Academy of Arts and Letters, una beca Latinx Arts Fellowship, una beca Fulbright y el premio Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Ha presentado performances y videos en la 56ª Bienal de Venecia, en Frieze Special Projects, en Basel Unlimited, en tres bienales del Whitney (2022, 2008, 1993) y otras exposiciones internacionales. Sus obras forman parte de las colecciones permanentes del Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), del Art Institute of Chicago, del Walker Art Center, del Centre Pompidou, del Imperial War Museum y del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA).

Es autora de Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba [Movimientos peligrosos: performance y políticas en Cuba] (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes Cultural Fusion in the Americas [Aquí se rompe el inglés: Apuntes de fusion cultura en América] (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings [Los cuerpos que no eran nuestros: y otros escritos] (2001) y A Field Guide for Female Interrogators [Una guía de campo para mujeres interrogadoras] (2008). Su representante es Alexander Gray Associates de la ciudad de Nueva York. Asimismo, se desempeña como profesora de arte en Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. La retrospectiva individual de las obras de Fusco, Tomorrow I Will Become an Island [Mañana seré una isla], se inaugurará en el Instituto KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlín, en septiembre de 2023, acompañada de una monografía publicada por Thames & Hudson.