Coco Capitán

Coco Capitán
President of the photography jury

Coco Capitán (b. 1992, Seville, Spain) lives and works in London. She
completed her Master of Fine Arts with Honours in the field of Photography at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. Her art practice straddles the fine art and commercial art worlds, and includes photography, painting, installation and prose. Recent solo shows include NAÏVY: in fifty
(definitive) photographs at Maximillian William Gallery (London, 2023), Who Art Thou at
Yvon Lambert (Paris, 2023), Ookini (Kyoto, 2023), NAÏVY: in fifty (definitive) photographs at
Parco Museum (Tokyo, 2022), Naïvy at Maximillian William Gallery (London, 2021), Busy
Living: Everything with Everyone, Everywhere, All of the Time at the Maison Européenne de
la Photography (Paris, 2020), and Is It Tomorrow Yet? at Daelim Museum (Seoul, 2019). Her
work is held in the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photography, Paris and Huis
Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam. She has published several books, among
them Naïvy, If You’ve Seen It All Close Your Eyes, Naivy in 50 (Definitive) Photographs and
Middle Point Between my House and China. Her commercial clients include Gucci, Lacoste,
Belmond, APC, COS, Benetton, Nike, Samsung and Dior. Her work has appeared in
publications such as the New York Times Magazine, the British Journal of Photography,
Dazed, Le Monde, El Pais, Document Journal and Vogue. She has been a guest speaker for
Cambridge University, Royal College of Art, Oxford University, Manchester School of Art,
London Southbank University and Aalto University, among others.

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