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Coco Fusco

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

November 12, 2012–February 16, 2013

Left: a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004); Right: Sightings photo series (2004)

Left: a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004); Right: Sightings photo series (2004)
Installation view
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2012)

Sightings 2; Sightings 3; Sightings 4 (2004)

Sightings 2; Sightings 3; Sightings 4 (2004)
Installation view
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2012)

Press Release

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
November 12, 2012 - February 16, 2013

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
September 10 - December 7, 2013

Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
November 14, 2013 - March 9, 2014

Coco Fusco's Sightings (2004) photo series and a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert (2004) video featured in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of more than five decades of performance art by black visual artists.