[4][5][6] The graduating artists sued and eventually settled with the city in exchange for a monetary award and a formal apology from Julius Spiegel, Brooklyn Borough Parks Commissioner.
[7] Kotak's work, in which she presents her everyday life as performance art, includes live re-enactments of her own birth, losing her virginity in a blue Plymouth, and attending her grandfather's funeral.
[10] Kotak is the winner of a 2012-2013 Franklin Furnace Fund award[11] and a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council.
"[12] Kotak grew up in North Attleboro, MA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
She is married to and often collaborates with her husband, noted visual artist Jason Robert Bell.