press — Coco Dolle

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FORBES Digital “Top Digital and Crypto events at Miami Art Basel” by Ana Maria Caballero, 12.2023
Channel News Asia “Cryptocurrency Market” by Sally Patterson, 11.2023
LEAPS Science Magazine “Can AI be trained as an artist” by Megan Dematteo 5.2023
PALM NFT Studio ZINE “Lift the physicality away” by Straith Schreder 4.2023
ARTNET NEWS “Most of the NFT artists making headlines have been white men, nearly half the works in this virtual exhibition are by women, including Spring/Break Art Show founder Ambre Kelly and feminist artist Coco Dolle.”- “NFT Now at Techspressionism - Sarah Cascone, 3.2021
HYPERALLERGIC “Coco’s work is incredibly inclusive, … Her Legacy Fatale series is all about bringing people together regardless of their trained competence…She is creating a performance troupe that is saying you have been disenfranchised for some reason.” - The Spiritual side of performance - Anthony Haden-Guest, 2.2020
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST “We like to support other artists—most things are made by friends, artists, and designers … The photograph on the mantel is by Coco Dolle” - Collector Molly Finlay’s home in Nyack - Zoë Sessums, 1.2020
HARPER’S BAZAAR “Curator Coco Dolle has been organizing a vaudeville-style performance series titled TRANS-Ville” - Up and coming Artists you need to know - 2.2018
RAVELIN MAGAZINE “Challenging patriarchal institutions, Coco Dolle left France to make a life in New York as artist and curator.” - Transfixed by the Art of Coco Dolle - Karisa Senavitis, 4.2018
HUFFINGTON POST “When you step outside that spiritual place and you go back into reality ― with the human body and the ego and all that ― the power dynamics change.” - What it’s real like to be a muse - Priscilla Frank, 4.2018
3:AM MAGAZINE “Coco Dolle is a French-born & New York based visual artist, performer and curator whose work explores themes of sexuality and gender dynamics. Her drawings, paintings and performance art projects invite a contemplation on female identity, women’s symbology and the construction of the self.” - Between Worship and Consciousness - Jana Astanov, 2.11.2018
PURPLE ART “[Coco Dolle’s Legacy Fatale] aimed to re-contextualize the history of an Amazon as one of the earliest archetypes of a feminist. Standing against the Western culture’s tendency to objectify women, the group used an ancient Greek Amazon Warrior as an embodiment of a strong female – fierce and unbridled. “ - Legacy Fatale Performance directed by Coco Dolle at Queens Museum, New York - 11.29.2017
VICE MAGAZINE “Dolle's shows feature mostly feminist artists, from Betty Tompkins to the Guerrilla Girls, because she seeks spaces that support her interests. "Institutions are bound to internal hierarchies that aren't easy to maneuver," Dolle told me by email. "An independent curator breathes freedom and flexibility." - Art Trends: Independent Curators - Emerson Rosenthal, 6.28.2017
FORBES MAGAZINE “Dolle assembles a variety of female and feminine voices to explore contemporary art and feminism with a particular focus on inter-generational and inter-sectional conversations.” - Feminisms takes many forms in Coco Dolle’s Milk and Night curatorial project - Adam Lehrer, 3.16.2017
FRONT RUNNER MAGAZINE “ Artist, founder and director Coco Dolle’s Legacy Fatale takes you on a spiritual journey using nature, art and performance as instruments to raise feminist consciousness.” - LEGACY FATALE: THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE RAISING FEMINIST AWARENESS THROUGH ART, NATURE AND TIES TO ANCIENT HISTORY AND POLITIC OF RESISTANCE - Rose Leadem, November 3 2017
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE “Dolle claims that according to popular lore, Wonder Woman represents the missing link between the suffragette era and the Amazonian age. Probing the political, ancient and pop, Legacy Fatale recruits the modern day Amazon amongst its local community of women – gathering artists, performers, mothers, healers and friends from various origins, ages and social circles.” - Pop Amazons’ Legacy Fatale leads the march - Katie Cercone, 5.7.2016
ART 511 MAGAZINE “Legacy Fatale” - Katie Cercone, 2016
ANOTHER MAGAZINE “Dolle explains. “I believe that bridging feminist communities is an essential component in the process of exploring the body via the female gaze. We need all voices together, although we are limited by the geography of the gallery space.” - Considering the Nude in feminist art - Charlotte Jensen 5.12.2016
BUST MAGAZINE “ The group show explores the female perspective on the nude female body, which is so often the subject of the male gaze and male criticism.” - 10 Images That Take The Female Nude Back From The Male Gaze - Olivia Harrison, May 4, 2016
A WOMEN’S THING “Coco Dolle’s Performance Collective Legacy Fatale” November 18, 2016
BEDFORD AND BOWERY “Presented by Milk and Night, the feminist curatorial team that blew up a church in Greenpoint earlier this year … The show demonstrates that female-centric art is incredibly diverse and continues to evolve right along with women’s issues.” - These all women shows bring feminist art of now to centerstage - Nicole Disser 9.2015
ARTFORUM “I’m a curator by day, Amazon by night,” explained the trio’s leader, Coco Dolle, in so winning a way it took me a minute to remember when exactly the Amazons dressed as zebras.” Excite Strategy - Sarah Nicole Prickett - December 3, 2014
POSTURE MAGAZINE “Milk and Night will have its own booth, a special residency project under Gallery SENSEI and the only booth solely dedicated to feminist art. For this fair, founding director Coco Dolle is the main curator.” - Winter Mendelson - November 11, 2014
NY OBSERVER “The belief that feminism can be an intrinsic part of living, rather than reduced to a political posture—that everyone is inherently a feminist if you believe in equality—is a unifying theme between the work at [Coco Dolle’s] Milk and Night and The Hole’s Future Feminism.” - The Hole and Sensei Galleries Redefine the F-Word-Feminism - Kate Messinger, 9.19.2014
BROOKLYN RAIL “In France at the time, asserting oneself as a feminist artist was not well received. During this period I was exhibiting paintings in galleries, exploring dance, and modeling for artists and photographers in both New York and Paris. It was therefore my experiences in New York that were thrilling, as well as what informed my personal life and creative expression.” - My French American Potluck - Critics Page, 5.21.2014
BLACK BOOK “Art Parade star Coco Dolle preps for Deitch’s Annual Art Parade street fest from her lofty in the Soho Grand.” - Coco Dolle Queen of the Amazons - Black Book, 7.10.2008
THE NEW YORK TIMES “I was happy to re-encounter Coco Dolle, with her foam core cutouts of female muses, Cleopatra, Louise Brooks, Pocahontas, and Courtney Love among them. … and the Art Parade was refreshed again this year through an open call for proposals.” - The Creative Spirit, strolling through Soho with its fringe flying - Holland Cutter, 9.10.2007
THE NEW YORK SUN “The New York based French artist's "Village Voice Pinup" (2007), in acrylic and spackle on canvas, presents a grid of two dozen portraits of prostitutes advertising in the New York free newspaper…Ms. Dolle achieves in these enigmatic works a mix of empathy and disdain, allure, and melancholy that is, rather like the artist's own given and assumed names, a tease, indeed.” - The Joy of Coyness by David Cohen, 7.12.2007

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