Addy Cota (b. 1997) is an American artist working across multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation.

My work examines feminine identity and the ways it has been shaped by pacifying archetypes. I'm interested in how these roles, drawing from history, mythology, and cultural narratives, continue to define and contain the female body.I treat these frameworks as materials to be fragmented.

I build a visual language from both lived experience and borrowed histories. My forms often combine softness with tension: sensuous or alluring surfaces disrupted by hard or dangerous foils. I carefully arrange these elements in delicate compositions, inviting the viewer in but also resisting intimacy. These contrasts reflect the instability of femininity as it is traditionally understood.

I frequently return to a character of my own creation, a feminine entity that resists direct representation. Her presence is embedded in surfaces, forms, and materiality. She safeguards, but not gently. Her protection is is inseparable from her capacity for danger. Through her, I construct a mythology that is self-defined, where femininity is subversive.

You can find my artist CV here.