Coco Fusco (top left) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. She is a recipient of a 2023 Free Speech Defender Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship, a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, a 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship, a 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman award, and a 2018 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, among many other honors.
Fusco's performances and videos have been presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.
Additionally, Fusco is the author of a number of titles including Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications.
Dr. Gregory Sholette (top right) is a New York-based artist, writer, activist, and scholar specializing in social art theory. Co-founder of several influential art collectives including Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D), REPOhistory, and Gulf Labor Coalition, Sholette has published significant works examining the intersection of art and activism including The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture. He co-directs Social Practice CUNY with Chloë Bass and serves as Affiliated Doctoral Faculty Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Sholette is currently working on a new study tentatively titled Time Against Itself: Art and Politics in the Age of the Unpresent.
