Coco Guzmán


Coco Guzmán, known also as Coco Riot is a queer visual artist of Spanish origin, who is internationally known for her activism and artistic exploration of gender equality and feminist issues.
Guzmán was born in 1979 in Murcia, a small city in Southern Spain, and grew up in a family of scientists. At 19, she moved to France for higher education and became involved in feminist, queer, and anarchist movements in Europe. After obtaining a Master of Arts in Comparative Medieval Literature at Paris VIII University in 2003, she began exploring the queer graphic novel as an artistic medium. Guzmán was accepted to the Toulouse Fine Arts Academy, to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She moved to Montreal in 2008 and currently lives in Toronto and teaches at Seneca College and Lakehead University.

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