Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares, June 18, 1960 in New York City) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer. Fusco has performed and curated throughout the US and internationally. Fusco's work explores the relationship between women and society, war, politics, and race.

She was born in 1960 in New York City. She attained a Bachelor's degree in Literature and Society/Semiotics from Brown University in 1982. She later attained a Master's of Art degree in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1985 and a Doctorate in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (England) in 2005.

Fusco began her academic career as an assistant professor of visual arts in 1995 at Temple University. She became an associate professor in 1998, holding the position until 2001, when she transferred to be an associate professor of the arts at Columbia University in New York, a position she held until 2008. From 2008-2013, she was an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design, and in 2014, she received a Fulbright appointment and served as the Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, Brazil for one year. She taught at MIT as an MLK Visiting Scholar in 2014-15, and currently serves as the Andrew Banks Endowed Chair at the College of the Arts at University of Florida.

She has also presented performances and videos in some of the most prominent arts festivals worldwide, including The Venice Biennale, The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, Transmediale, and The London International Theatre Festival. She has published six books: A Field Guide for Female Interrogators, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, and English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas, and Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba. She has received fellowships and grants from over fifteen universities and organizations. Fusco also was on the College Art Association Advisory Board at Columbia, Cultural Politics Journal Editorial Advisory Board, was a member of the PEN American Center, the consulting editor at the NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, and was on the Board of Directors of the Yaddo Artists Residency. In 2000 and 2002 she worked as a Critical Studies Tutor at the Whitney Museum's independent study program.

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