An interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York.
 She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 Free Speech Defender Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship, the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, the 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship, the 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the 2018 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, the 2016 Greenfield Prize, the 2014 Cintas Fellowship, the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, the 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, the 2012 US Artists Fellowship, and the 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
 Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, and three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008, and 1993), among other international exhibitions. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.
 A retrospective entitled Tomorrow I Will Become an Island opened at KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin in September 2023. An accompanying monograph with the same title was published by Thames & Hudson.
 Fusco 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 and Other Writings (2001); and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).
 Her writing appears regularly in The New York Review of Books and in numerous art publications.
 Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985), and Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007). She is currently a Professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.