Puppies Puppies

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, b. 1989, Dallas, TX) is an artist who lives and works in New York. Her practice expands ideas around the readymade by imbuing the everyday with a personal and political charge. In her installations and performances, she has reconfigured antibacterial gel dispensers, sleeping, and taking a pill, challenging ableist frameworks of artistic and capitalist production. Her exhibitions have involved a GoFundMe campaign for a friend’s transition and free HIV testing. For Kuriki-Olivo, life can be an endurance practice, especially for those whose survival is at stake, including trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people of color. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at venues such as Kim Association, Singapore, 2025; Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, 2025; Balice Hertling, Paris, 2024; New Museum, New York, 2023; and Remai Modern, Saskatoon, 2019. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions at venues including Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2025; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 2025; MASP, São Paulo, 2024; M Leuven, 2024; 60th Venice Biennale, 2024; and 8th Yokohama Triennale, 2023. Her 2017 work Liberté (Liberty), was the first performance art piece in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection. She received the 2021 Toby’s Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. (Edited version of Vivian Crockett’s text.)