Francesco Di Cocco (1900 – 1989) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement.
After a brief spell in the Army while in Albania in 1919, he returned to Rome, where he was influenced by Giacomo Balla, and spent time in the studio of Leonardo Castellani.
He was recruited to paint murals for Italian pavilion designed by Andrea Busiri Vici at the 1939 World's Fair.
In 1938, a letter from the Quadriennale board inquired as to his race prior to exhibiting, he refrained from returning to Italy under fascism.
His style changed from a depiction of languorous figures in the 1930s, to Surrealist paintings of imaginary amusement parks in the 1940s, to abstractions after the mid-1950s.