Puppies Puppies

Puppies Puppies (born Jade Kuriki Olivo, 1989) is a contemporary artist known primarily for their conceptual works of sculpture, installation, and performance art, that mobilize readymade objects and characters from popular culture.[1] Their 2017 work Liberté (Liberty), is the first and only work of performance art to be acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for its permanent collection.[2]

Puppies Puppies
Born
Jade Kuriki Olivo

1989
Dallas, Texas
NationalityJapanese Puerto Rican
Known forconceptual art, performance art

Early life and Education

Puppies Puppies grew up outside of Dallas, Texas. The artist is of Japanese and Puerto Rican descent.[1] They attended the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.[3] They became interested in performance as an art form in high school when they dressed up as their school's mascot.[4] In 2010, the artist had a life-threatening brain tumor, which was successfully removed.[1]

Work and Career

The artist is known for working in a wide range of media and materials, including blood, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fan art, crab carapaces, Swiffers and Minions paraphernalia.[5] Their 2015 exhibition HorseshoeCrabs HorseshoeCrabs at the Freddy Gallery, Baltimore displayed various artistic interpretations of the horseshoe crab, an arthropod whose blood is often drained for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing.[6][7] In 2016 they participated in the Berlin Biennale, presenting a new video each day of the biennale.[8] In 2017 their work Liberté (Liberty) was included in the Whitney Biennial.[9] The piece involved a performer wearing a green gown along with a crown standing on an outdoor terrace of the Whitney Museum; simultaneously, the Whitney's gift shop sold $5 liberty crowns to visitors.[10] In 2019, Interview Magazine published a conversation between Laura Albert and Puppies Puppies, where the artist publicly revealed their identity for the first time, coming out as a "Latinx transgender woman." [1] Their 2019 solo show at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan engaged blood as a subject. The exhibition displayed a bag of the artist's own blood, as well as providing on-site HIV testing and blood donation services to visitors.[11][12]

References
  1. "Artist Puppies Puppies in Conversation with Laura Albert". January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  2. "Collection". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  3. "Puppies Puppies — T293". www.t293.it. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  4. "Stage a Performance". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "'Puppies Puppies: HorseshoeCrabs HorseshoeCrabs' at Freddy Gallery". 2015-09-30. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  7. "Puppies Puppies at Freddy Gallery". 2015-09-30. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  8. Greenberger, Alex (May 24, 2016). "Puppies Puppies Will Present a Different Video Every Day of the Berlin Biennale". Archived from the original on July 8, 2019. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
  9. "The Millenial Biennial: Meet the 20-Something Artists of the 2017 Whitney Biennial". Archived from the original on 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  10. "Puppies Puppies is Selling $5 Lady Liberty Crowns at the Whitney Museum Gift Shop". 2017-03-13. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  11. "Remai, artist Puppies Puppies connect to community with new exhibition | Saskatoon StarPhoenix". 2019-09-22. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  12. "Blood donations, HIV testing part of Remai exhibit exploring connections through blood | CBC News". Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-15.


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