Coco Picard | Independent Artist
Posted 14 July 2017
Caroline Picard is an artist, writer, publisher, and curator who explores the figure in relation to systems of power. Publishing under the names Caroline Picard and Coco Picard, her art writing has appeared in publications like Art21, Artforum, e-flux, Flash Art International, and Paper Monument. Fiction and comics have appeared in Hyperallergic, The Coming Envelope (Book Thug), Necessary Fiction, Tupelo Quarterly, and Everyday Genius. In 2014, she was the Curatorial Fellow at La Box, ENSA (France), and became a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators’ Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2015. She is the Executive Director of The Green Lantern Press—a nonprofit publishing house and art producer in operation since 2005—and Co-Director of Sector 2337, a hybrid artspace/bar/bookstore in Logan Square. Recent publications include The Strangers Among Us (Astrophil Press) and a debut graphic novel, The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics).
Recommended citations:
Picard, Coco. “The Nomadic Body: Rebecca Beachy at New Capital.” Sequentials, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017.
Picard, Coco. “In the Cosmic Fugue: Jacob Hashimoto at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.” Sequentials, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017.
Picard, Coco. “Caesar’s Bridge: A Performance by Every House Has a Door.” Sequentials, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017.