Coco Klockner is an artist and writer. She is the author of the speculative novella K-Y (Genderfail Press, 2019) and her essays have appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Spike Art Magazine, Disclaimer/Liquid Architecture, and The Whitney Review. Klockner has had solo exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; stop-gap projects, Columbia, MO; The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA; Vent Space, Baltimore, MD; and her work has been included in group exhibitions at Skol Arts Actuels, Montreal, QC, CA; White Columns, New York; Lubov, New York; Gaudalajara 90210, CDMX, MX; Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA; MoMA PS1, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN; and Musik Installationen Nürnberg, DE. Her sound design has shaped short films—Leave (Luscombe and Benedetto, 2023), Fabrication of Senses (Cao, 2024), Jane Eyre, Los Angeles (Loeppky-Kolesnik and Klockner, 2021)—while operating alone in compositions both collaborative (with Vijay Masharani, I Might Have to Use This on My Landlord, 2021, Orb Tapes) and solo (sleep ache suite, 2022-2024, Triest Digital Editions). She is director of the project space hatred 2 in Brooklyn.

Klockner’s practice moves between text, sound, sculpture, and architectural intervention, implementing site-responsive environments that probe the ways that systems of representation are constructed. The forms that emerge in her work mirror and intersect the dynamics embedded in the structural concerns of transness, examining the terms through which its status is constituted.