nico antuna cooper
dj / artist / poet / sommelier el paso, texas
Nico Antuna Cooper works across electronic music, painting and wine. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers.
music
Melodic progressive house and Balearic music for rooftops, hotel terraces and lounges.
Most of his performances now take place in these rooms. The sets are long and built on warm basslines and clear melodic arcs, paced for conversation, dinner and the hour after, with the music supporting the room rather than leading it.
later rooms
Techno, trip hop and industrial for underground rooms and the late hours.
In these settings the selection moves toward weight and repetition. He is the founder of Xenoglossy Records, a label for melodic and underground electronic music with listeners in Mexico, Germany and Argentina.
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visual art
Abstract painting rooted in the US-Mexico border.
His large-scale paintings and mixed-media works draw on a Mexican American border identity, in a post-Informalist, abstract expressionist language. Roadside shrines, milagros and Catholic iconography appear as restrained references rather than literal images. The religious element concerns ritual and repetition, and the space between the sacred and the profane.
Credentials
- 2026
- Certified Sommelier Court of Master Sommeliers
- 2020
- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing University of Texas at El Paso
- 2014
- Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish University of New Mexico
contact
For booking, commissions and wine inquiries, email is the most reliable way to reach him.
