Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality.

Henri Cueco was born on 19 October 1929 in Uzerche, Corrèze, a rural part of France.

[2][4] In 1969–1970, Cueco co-founded an artists collective called Coopérative des Malassis with Lucien Fleury, Jean-Claude Latil, Michel Parré and Gérard Tisserand.

[3] In 1986, when he exhibited an irreverent portrait of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Mao Zedong in Beijing, China, he was asked to take it down.

"[8] In 1997, Cueco exhibited paintings inspired by Nicolas Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne at the Centre d'art contemporain in Meymac.

[9] He exhibited his work at the Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord in 2014, when he was the guest of honour at the Expoésie Festival.

[2] With Ernest Pignon-Ernest, he co-founded the Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT in 1977.

[2][3] Cueco died of a kidney infection but was weakened by Alzheimer's disease on 13 March 2017 in Paris.