Representative work by Coco Fusco
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Artist

Coco Fusco

b. 1960, New York, New York, USA · Cuban-American

  • Brown University
  • Stanford University
  • Middlesex University

Coco Fusco works across performance, video and writing to examine race, colonial spectacle, incarceration, migration and the politics of cultural representation. Her collaborations and solo projects often turn institutional display and audience expectation into the subject.

Performance; video; writing

Major Works

  • 1992–93The Couple in the Cage
  • 1997Rights of Passage
  • 2005Bare Life Study #1
  • 2006Operation Atropos
  • 2006A Room of One’s Own
  • 2012The Empty Plaza
  • 2015La confesión
  • 2021Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
  • 2020Antigone Is Not Available Right Now
  • 2013Observations of Predation in Humans

Interviews & Writing

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