Puppies Puppies aka Jade Kuriki Olivo

RECOGNIZE THE HUMANITY IN TRANS PEOPLE FROM TRANS CHILDREN TO TRANS ELDERS

I WAS BORN A WOMAN IN A SOCIETY THAT COERCED ME INTO REPRESSION UNTIL ADULTHOOD

KEEP UP • MY GENDER IS NOT DEFINED BY MY GENITALIA • MY GENDER IS NOT DEFINED BY CHROMOSOMES

I AM A TRANS WOMAN DEMANDING ACCEPTANCE AND EQUITY NOT TOLERANCE AND EQUALITY

The layers of my identity inform my outlook and perspective. I am a multifaceted human being wanting to engage in a discourse around your journey. Your journey as an artist but more importantly as a human being with a brain.

Artist CV

Featured Work

Barriers (Stanchions), 2017-Ongoing, Rented Adjustable Stanchions, Protest Sign

Policing the Police, 2014, Performance at MoMA PS1, Handcuffed Officer

Syphilis Public Service Announcement (Schönleinstraße U-Bahn Subway Station) in Collaboration with Fixpunkt Clinic, 2018 - Ongoing, billboard

Untitled 2018, Live Grass (Sod), Custom Granite Tombstone with the Artist’s Deadname, Human Bones

Brain On Prescribed Estrogen Tablets, Testosterone Blockers, Progesterone, Marijuana, Advil 2018, Calf Brain, Prescribed and Illegally Acquired Estrogen Tablets, Testosterone Blockers, Progesterone, Marijuana Leaf, Advil, dimensions variable

Una Mujer Fantástica (Installation) 2018, Choreographed Performance at Gallery Opening at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

BODY FLUID (BLOOD), 2019, Blood Drop Stress Balls, Canadian Blood Services Blood Donations Boxes, Industrial Fridge, IV and Blood Stand, Bag of the Artist’s Blood, Private Room in the Public Gallery for HIV Testing, Peer Mentors Available for People Getting Tested, Canadian Blood Services Vans Taking Visitors To Donate Blood Every Weekend, Vinyl Photographs

Plague, 2019, soil, mannequins, fabric, coffee mud, taxidermy rats, vinyl, boarded windows, digital video, plague Doctor costume and Performer, live horse

“EXPECT US” , 2022, rock, soil, sand, engraved boulders, sugar cane, neon lights, green gels over the lights and the windows, vinyl, green beaded curtain, audio soundtrack, lights programmed to flicker