Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)

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Installation view: Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas. Curated by Mara Hassan. June 10 - September 24, 2023. Images are courtesy of Green Family Art Foundation.

Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), TRANNY, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, January 14 - February 26, 2022

Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), I’m Jade. I’m a trans woman trans womxn trans femme two spirit human being. Life feels long even though it hasn’t been all that long. A brain tumor surgically removed, getting divorced, losing my dad, brain tumor resurgence scare, starting hormone replacement therapy, experiencing sexual assault and rape multiple times and coming out as a woman. This exhibition is a roller coaster of the emotions feelings but also thoughts connections that happened over this span of time... only a little more than a decade. This exhibition covers the span of Puppies Puppies to Jade. It’s hard to get up each morning. My heart aches but I’m happy to be a woman. I’ll try my best to enjoy life even though society makes it difficult. From dust to dust I am but a speck on this planet and I wonder how to use this short life of mine. Trying not to let my trauma take over but still be kind to yourself Jade. This is the end of a decade • a new way of working coming soon. Sincerely, Jade Kuriki Olivo, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland, June 5 – August 22, 2021

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Brain on Estrogen, progesterone, spironolactone, Truvada, Advil and Marijuana, 2018. Cow brain, marijuana leaf, progesterone, estrogen, spironolactone, prep and pain killers.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), MRI scans from having a brain tumor removed in 2010, (documents from having brain cancer), 2010–2021, MRI Scans.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Untitled (portrait of the artist with no brain) (portrait of the artist after brain surgery) (Sylar (Zachary Quinto) brutally kills Isaac Mendez) (Heroes tv show prop) (Duane Hanson–murdered artist) (pre transition title), 2017. Television show prop.

From left to right: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Eating(Choices) (Judith, Otto, Jade), 2019, Zweifel Natur Chips, Ovomaltine chocolate, Pizza, Penne al Arrabiata, Coca Cola, champagne, Zweifel Popcorn, Airwaves chewing gum, Sabich, Piadina, Milk, Coca Cola, waffle, omelet with salad on a plate, chips, Coca Cola, beer. Grave (Hole), 2019, grave hole. Shit and Piss, 2019. ToiToi toilet.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Coffin (Sculpture & Performance), 2019. Wooden coffin, coffin nails, pillow, blanket, fabric lining. Installation image: Eliza Douglas & Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich. October 26 – November 30, 2019.

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Plague, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany, September 8 - October 27, 2019.

Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Executive Order 9066 (Soul Consoling Tower), Queer Thoughts, New York. March 9 – April 21, 2019

Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Andrew D. Olivo 6.7.89-6.7.18, What Pipeline, Detroit. June 21 - July 22, 2018

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Liberty (Liberté), 2017. Costume, mask, plastic torch, performance. Installation image: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 17 - June 11, 2017