Coco Dolle is a French-American fine art and NFT artist, writer, dancer and curator based in New York since the late 90s. Known for her multidisciplinary approach, her works revolve on themes of the body, identity, and feminism. She has been featured in high-end publications including Forbes, ArtForum, Artnet, Architectural Digest, Vice, W Magazine and Hyperallergic. A contributing writer to L’Officiel Art and Whitehot Magazine, her writings highlight the position of women in high-tech and contemporary arts.
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.
During the pandemic, she got involved with the technology of NFTs via ClubHouse 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.
Her personal works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Oregon Contemporary Art Center (2019) and at Mary Ryan Gallery (2007). She has exhibited and performed widely including at 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).
In 2014, her feminist curatorial was featured in RHONY (The Real Housewives of New York) Season 7, Episode 7.
She is a grant recipient of Arts Council England (2016) and The Art Student's League of New York (1999) where she received a Juried Award in painting.
She was an artist-in-residence at Grace Exhibition Space (2016-2017), Alexandra Arts Manchester UK (2016), and C3 Initiatives Portland, Oregon (2019).
Her works feature in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Coco Dolle was born in Avignon, France.
She lives and works between New York and her village in Provence.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Raised by a fierce business woman suffering from bi-polar disorders, I have lived through decades of psychoses. As an artist, I have identified with empowering feminine archetypes to survive complex trauma. Over the years, I have built a multi-faceted practice exploring identity and movement through the lens of existential-phenomenology, pop culture and mysticism. I have furthered my focus on the place of women in culture and feminist issues upon becoming a single mom in New York.
Through a nonlinear process, I use mediums that participate in the construction of my identity. In my visual works, I develop bodies of works by juxtaposing culture and nature to challenge personal and political 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 rebellion and defiance.
All my works address notions of movement, resistance, empowerment, womanhood and personal freedom.
