September 26 – December 20
Coco Fusco’s three murals—Artists in Prison Around the World, Journalists Killed at Work Around the World, and Assassinated Environmental Activists Around the World (2024–26)—are presented across three billboards, each organized in a grid format evocative of a mausoleum. As their titles suggest, the billboards include the names of journalists and environmental activists who were killed for their work and artists who were imprisoned between 2024 and 2026. The repetition of the grid format elicits minimalism, with the blurred backgrounds suggestive of situations that the people may find themselves within, including war zones, polluted landscapes, or prisons. Developed in the style of memorials for those who have been lost, these monuments are, for Coco, a reminder of how such acts of murder and imprisonment are an incursion on the ability of citizens to inform themselves and symbolize the global erosion of democratic values.
Co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Harbourfront Centre and made possible with the generous support of Mendes Wood DM and the Women Leading Initiative
Bio
Bio
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a Professor of Art at Cooper Union. Fusco is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a United States Artists fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship and a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice 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 Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is represented by Mendes Wood DM.
Fusco 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 (2001) and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). Tomorrow I Will Become an Island, a solo retrospective of Fusco’s works, was presented at Berlin’s KW Institute of Contemporary Art in 2023, accompanied by a monograph published by Thames & Hudson. An additional survey of her work toured to MACBA in Barcelona and at El Museo del Barrio in New York in 2025.
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