Coco Allred is an artist and educator based in Cambridge, MA, and Seattle, WA. Her practice explores the intersections of public space, aesthetics, and experimental pedagogy.  With a background in sculpture, printmaking, interdisciplinary programming, and intergenerational teaching, Coco designs participatory environments that activate space as a site for collective learning and resistance. Coco has a BFA program at Carnegie Mellon University with a concentration in Sculpture and a minor in Human-Computer Interaction, and is a current master's student in the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT.

Coco created Drawing Herd, a mobile installation and site-specific workshop series in Washington State, and collaborated on a pop-up art gallery for a K-8 school in Jersey City. In 2023, she was a resident at Fabrica Research Centre in Treviso, Italy. She has spent time as an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and as a Work Trade Resident at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA. Her work has received support from various cities in King County, the Bartol Foundation, Scholastics, CODA Worx, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and Anthropologie. She is a member of the collective, Post-Novis.