Full-Time Faculty
B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union
M.S., New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology
Professor and Jesse Sherman Chair of Electrical Engineering
Member of Cooper Union engineering faculty since 1987
Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Latinx Art Award, a Fulbright fellowship and a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is represented by Mendes Wood DM.
She is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is a professor of art at Cooper Union. Tomorrow I Will Become an Island, a solo retrospective of Fusco’s works opened at Berlin’s KW Institute of Contemporary Art in September 2023, accompanied by a monograph published by Thames & Hudson.
Fusco received her B.A. in semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in modern thought and literature from Stanford University (1985), and her Ph.D. in art and visual culture from Middlesex University (2007).
William Villalongo was born in 1975. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His figurative paintings, works on paper and sculpture are concerned with representing the Black subject against notions of race exploring metaphors of mythology and liberation. His curatorial projects include American Beauty at Susan Inglett Gallery in 2013 and Black Pulp! touring nationally between 2016-2018 explore the intersections of politics, history and art. Villalongo is the recipient of the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor's Grant. Villalongo was the 2022 Jules Guerin & Harold M. English Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Art. His work is included in several notable collections including the Studio Museum In Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum and The National Gallery of Art. His work has been reviewed in Art In America, The New Yorker and the New York Times. The artist is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, New York and is Associate Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art.
Villalongo received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 1999 and his MFA from Tyler School of Art & Architecture in 2001.
Caption: "Sphinx", 2023. Acrylic, velvet flock and paper collage on wood panel.
95" x 47 6/8 x 2 3/4". Courtesy of ©Villalongo Studio LLC
Marie Lorenz is a visual artist whose work combines sculpture, printmaking, and environmental fieldwork. Since 2005, she has operated The Tide and Current Taxi, an ongoing project navigating New York Harbor in handmade boats propelled by the tide. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2024), the Centre for Contemporary Art, Montbéliard, France (2024), and forthcoming at Watershed Art and Ecology in Chicago (2025). Group exhibitions include Shifting Shorelines: Art, Politics, and the Environment (Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2024), and Women Reframe the American Landscape (Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2023). Lorenz is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Creative Capital Award (2021), the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2008), and multiple residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program (2017, 2024). Her collaborative floating opera Newtown Odyssey was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and premiered on Newtown Creek in Queens in 2023. Lorenz earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art.
New Monoprints: Marie Lorenz, Undertow — Tandem Press New Editions, 2025
Confluence — Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France, 2024
Ben McGrath, “Dystopian Sublime” — The New Yorker, October 2, 2023
Marie Lorenz, “Frottage, Takuhon, and the Gyotaku Methods” — Brooklyn Rail, 2022
