BIO

Coco Dolle is a French-American artist, curator, and writer working between New York and the South of France. Her curatorial projects have been featured in top US publications including Forbes, ArtForum, Artnet, Architectural Digest, Vice, W Magazine and Hyperallergic. Her personal works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Oregon Contemporary Art Center (2019) , Mary Ryan Gallery (2007) and Yukiko Kawase (2005). A contributing writer to L’Officiel Art and Whitehot Magazine, she has published over fifty articles and interviewed renown artists Judy Chicago and Takashi Murakami.

Former model dancer and fashion muse for acclaimed artists including Alex Katz, her performances appeared in Vogue and The New York Times while she studied painting with Larry Poons at The Art Students League and attending Louise Bourgois’ Sunday Salon.

Over the last decade, Coco has developed a personal mode of working that merges the roles of artist, curator and performer. Under her curatorial moniker Milk and Night, she has organized multiple successful events, curated gallery exhibition projects, while developing a social practice empowering women with her performance art troupe Legacy Fatale.

In 2014, Coco Dolle was featured as herself in RHONY (The Real Housewives of New York) Season 7, Episode 7. Countess Luann came to visit her exhibition booth at Miami Art Basel.

During the pandemic, she was introduced with the new technology of NFTs and wrote a seminal article on NFT artists. Her first NFT was curated by Paris Hilton in 2020 “Empowered by Paris” with a grant from Sevens Foundation. Coco’s NFTs have since been exhibited at CADAF Art, Kunstmatrix and Lume Studios. In 2023, she was a VIP speaker at NFT.NYC. In 2023, she founded PPW3, a new curatorial project focused on women in Web3, co-curated with Raina Marie.

Exhibition portfolio include The Queens Museum (NY), Czech Center (NYC), Deitch Projects Art Parade (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), Andrew Edlin Gallery (NYC), Manchester Art Gallery (United Kingdom), Nagoya Art (Japan), Chashama Gala (NY), For Freedoms (NYC), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NY + LA), Brucennial (NYC), Fountain Art Fair (Miami), Select Fair (Miami), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (NYC), Yukiko Kawase Galerie (Paris) and Arts in Bushwick (NY).

Coco’s works feature in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Raised in an entrepreneur family with a mother suffering from bi-polar disorders, I have lived through chaos and high stakes environments. Born in Avignon, I graduated from a business school in Paris and came to New York to become an artist. To survive complex trauma, I have identified with empowering feminine archetypes. Over the years, I have built a multi-faceted practice exploring identity and feminine territories through the lens of existential-phenomenology, dance, pop culture and mysticism. I have furthered my focus on the place of women in culture while becoming a single mom in New York.

Initially an abstract painter, I have developed bodies of works by juxtaposing culture and nature to challenge personal and social boundaries. I engage with an aesthetic of serialism, in pop art and abstractions reclaiming meaning in symbolic canons of representation. My performance works explore women archetypes and leadership through dance activism. My writings focus on artists aligned with the spirit of excellence.

All my works address notions of movement, resistance, empowerment, womanhood and personal freedom.

New York, 2022.