Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Nothing New, New Museum, New York, 10.12.23 – 03.03.24
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Installation view: Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas. Curated by Mara Hassan. 06.10.23 – 09.24.23. Images are courtesy of Green Family Art Foundation.
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Installation view: Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas. Curated by Mara Hassan. 06.10.23 – 09.24.23. Images are courtesy of Green Family Art Foundation.
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Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), TRANNY, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 01.14.22 – 02.26.22
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Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), TRANNY, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 01.14.22 – 02.26.22
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Installation view: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), PULSE, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, 09.21.23 – 10.28.23
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Installation image: Eliza Douglas & Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo), Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, 10.26.19 – 11.30.19
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Curated by Stefanie Kleefeld
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Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Executive Order 9066 (Soul Consoling Tower), Queer Thoughts, New York, 03.09.19 – 04.21.19
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Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Andrew D. Olivo 6.7.89-6.7.18, What Pipeline, Detroit. 06.21.18 – 07.22.18
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Installation image: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo), Andrew D. Olivo 6.7.89-6.7.18, What Pipeline, Detroit. 06.21.18 – 07.22.18
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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, 03.17.17 – 06.11.17
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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, 03.17.17 – 06.11.17
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Ryoan-ji (Rock Garden). Gravel, boulders, moss, wooden saw tooth rake. Dimensions variable. Edition 1 of 1 + 1 AP
2023
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), monitor (monitoring existence)(observation)(camera system)(security)(camming)(live)(live stream)(streaming). Two Logitech Brio 4K ultra HD webcams, gaming computer, laptop, and personal mobile device. Dimensions Variable
2023
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Electric Dress (Atsuko Tanaka). LED-dress made from textile and plastic, draped on mannequin, 12 lithium-ion batteries in cases in textile pockets, Madrix programmed micro SD-card, performance (optional). Dress 81 × 66 × 63 cm
2023
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), A painting of the tattoos on my forehead • to be seen looking up at ceiling • the closest part of the room to theatmosphere • the tattoos photographed by my roommate Ren Light Pan • the photograph turned into a ceilingviewed painting by Chella Man • the piece dedicated to Chella Man after having a beautiful conversation about themeaning of our tattoos • the tattoos are the kanji of my mothers family name from Japan meaning chestnut tree •the tattoos are also petroglyphs from my fathers indigenous culture and ancestry which he use to draw • thesymbol for water • the symbol for the snail • the symbol for the turtle • the symbol for a coquí • the symbol for thesun • ocean in Spanish and English • combined with the chemical makeup of water two oxygen one hydrogen • Ialso dedicate this work to Chella Man because we had a beautiful talk about disabilities • I’ve experienced severebrain trauma • first by getting hit by a car as I was biking • and then the CAT scan after the accident revealing I hada brain tumor that was growing • the tumor was in my frontal lobe and involved quite a bit of memory loss andchanges in my personality once it was surgically removed • the front part of my cranium was cut open and in thatmoment my brain was exposed to the atmosphere and ecosystem • I wanted to create a whole ecosystem from myheritage and nature on my forehead where the bone was removed • all within the shape of a Japanese fan • I willperform naked painted in red up to my forehead • I will lay naked for hours under a light • there will be a guideavailable to understand the painting on the ceiling which is a guide to my tattoos • when I am not present acontainer with a calf’s brain (the closest in shape and size to a human’s brain) will existed under a lamp which is thesame lamp that will illuminate my forehead • the container will hold a brain • and all the things my brain issometimes (or often) on to cope or affirm myself which is an empty vile of estrogen, testosterone blockers(spironolactone), advil, and marijuana • to use red markings on one’s body and to make permanent markings onone’s body are echos of my fathers indigenous culture • to be naked is also an echo of my father’s indigenousculture • it is also a radical gesture to be nude as a trans woman but also two-spirit person. Container with calf brain, liquid for preservation, estrogen, wile, spironolactone, advil and marijuana 10 x 7 x 7 in
2022
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), A sculpture for Trans Women A sculpture for the Non-Binary Femmes A sculpture for Two-Spirit People • I am a woman. I don’t care what you think • (Transphobia is everywhere and everyone is susceptible to enacting it at any moment) (Unlearn the transphobia brewing within) I am a Trans Women. I am a Two-Spirit Person. I am a Woman. This is for my sisters and siblings everywhere. History erased many of us but we are still here. I will fight for our rights until the day I die. Exile me and I’ll keep fighting. Bronze cast on engraved brass base. 74.8 x 23.62 x 23.62 inches (190 x 60 x 60 cm). Edition of 5 + 1/1 AP
2022
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), MRI scans from having a brain tumor removed in 2010 (documents from having brain cancer). MRI Scans. Dimensions variable
2010 - 2021
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Eve’s/Adam’s Apple (Adam’s Apple is a lump of cartilage that sticks out from the throat) (symbol of banishment) (clocked by my large Eve’s/Adam’s Apple) (Eve’s Apple) (Bitten). Apple. Dimensions variable
2020
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Brain on Estrogen, progesterone, spironolactone, Truvada, Advil and Marijuana. Cow brain, marijuana leaf, progesterone, estrogen, spironolactone, prep and pain killers. Dimensions variable. Edition 0/1 + 1 AP
2018
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Ryoan-ji (Rock Garden). Gravel, boulders, moss, wooden saw tooth rake. Dimensions variable. Edition 1 of 1 + 1 AP
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), monitor (monitoring existence)(observation)(camera system)(security)(camming)(live)(live stream)(streaming). Two Logitech Brio 4K ultra HD webcams, gaming computer, laptop, and personal mobile device. Dimensions Variable
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Electric Dress (Atsuko Tanaka). LED-dress made from textile and plastic, draped on mannequin, 12 lithium-ion batteries in cases in textile pockets, Madrix programmed micro SD-card, performance (optional). Dress 81 × 66 × 63 cm
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), A painting of the tattoos on my forehead • to be seen looking up at ceiling • the closest part of the room to theatmosphere • the tattoos photographed by my roommate Ren Light Pan • the photograph turned into a ceilingviewed painting by Chella Man • the piece dedicated to Chella Man after having a beautiful conversation about themeaning of our tattoos • the tattoos are the kanji of my mothers family name from Japan meaning chestnut tree •the tattoos are also petroglyphs from my fathers indigenous culture and ancestry which he use to draw • thesymbol for water • the symbol for the snail • the symbol for the turtle • the symbol for a coquí • the symbol for thesun • ocean in Spanish and English • combined with the chemical makeup of water two oxygen one hydrogen • Ialso dedicate this work to Chella Man because we had a beautiful talk about disabilities • I’ve experienced severebrain trauma • first by getting hit by a car as I was biking • and then the CAT scan after the accident revealing I hada brain tumor that was growing • the tumor was in my frontal lobe and involved quite a bit of memory loss andchanges in my personality once it was surgically removed • the front part of my cranium was cut open and in thatmoment my brain was exposed to the atmosphere and ecosystem • I wanted to create a whole ecosystem from myheritage and nature on my forehead where the bone was removed • all within the shape of a Japanese fan • I willperform naked painted in red up to my forehead • I will lay naked for hours under a light • there will be a guideavailable to understand the painting on the ceiling which is a guide to my tattoos • when I am not present acontainer with a calf’s brain (the closest in shape and size to a human’s brain) will existed under a lamp which is thesame lamp that will illuminate my forehead • the container will hold a brain • and all the things my brain issometimes (or often) on to cope or affirm myself which is an empty vile of estrogen, testosterone blockers(spironolactone), advil, and marijuana • to use red markings on one’s body and to make permanent markings onone’s body are echos of my fathers indigenous culture • to be naked is also an echo of my father’s indigenousculture • it is also a radical gesture to be nude as a trans woman but also two-spirit person. Container with calf brain, liquid for preservation, estrogen, wile, spironolactone, advil and marijuana 10 x 7 x 7 in
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), A sculpture for Trans Women A sculpture for the Non-Binary Femmes A sculpture for Two-Spirit People • I am a woman. I don’t care what you think • (Transphobia is everywhere and everyone is susceptible to enacting it at any moment) (Unlearn the transphobia brewing within) I am a Trans Women. I am a Two-Spirit Person. I am a Woman. This is for my sisters and siblings everywhere. History erased many of us but we are still here. I will fight for our rights until the day I die. Exile me and I’ll keep fighting. Bronze cast on engraved brass base. 74.8 x 23.62 x 23.62 inches (190 x 60 x 60 cm). Edition of 5 + 1/1 AP
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), MRI scans from having a brain tumor removed in 2010 (documents from having brain cancer). MRI Scans. Dimensions variable
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Eve’s/Adam’s Apple (Adam’s Apple is a lump of cartilage that sticks out from the throat) (symbol of banishment) (clocked by my large Eve’s/Adam’s Apple) (Eve’s Apple) (Bitten). Apple. Dimensions variable
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Brain on Estrogen, progesterone, spironolactone, Truvada, Advil and Marijuana. Cow brain, marijuana leaf, progesterone, estrogen, spironolactone, prep and pain killers. Dimensions variable. Edition 0/1 + 1 AP