Exhibitions
18 September 2025 - 11 January 2026
El Museo del Barrio / New York City, United States
Coco Fusco, La Plaza Vacía (The Empty Plaza), 2012. Video, 12 min. Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York. Acquisition enabled by VEZA New Media Fund 2022 and headline supporters South SOUTH and Nilo.
El Museo del Barrio presents the exhibition Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, the first U.S. survey of influential Cuban-American artist, writer, and activist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, lives in New York). A renowned artist, writer, and activist, Fusco has been globally lauded for her distinctly perceptive, acerbic, and piercing voice. Since the 1990s, her films, photographs, texts, installations, and performances have addressed the dynamics of politics and power in relation to issues of representation, culture, and institutional critique.
The exhibition will include more than three decades of Fusco’s artistic production, positioning her as one of the foremost artists shaping the contemporary art field. Spanning her now-canonical performance “Two Undiscovered Amerindians Discover the West” (presented with Guillermo Gomez-Peña) to her on-going investigation of post-revolutionary Cuban history and her most recent photographic explorations around U.S. politics, the show will offer an expansive view of her multidisciplinary career.
Borrowing its title from the artist’s recent monograph publication, Tomorrow, I will Become an Island is organized at El Museo del Barrio by Susanna V. Temkin, interim chief curator, and Rodrigo Moura, former chief curator.
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