Puppies Puppies aka Jade Kuriki Olivo

Biography

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.

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Transcendence at Performance Space New York (New York, 2022)

Hannah Hoffman Gallery (Los Angeles, 2022)

moCa Cleveland (Cleveland, 2022)

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, gettingdivorced, losing my dad, brain tumor resurgence scare, starting hormone replacementtherapy, 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 thathappened 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’mhappy to be a woman. I’ll try my best to enjoy life even though society makes it difficult. Fromdust 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, at Kunsthaus Glarus (Glarus, Switzerland 2021)

Plague at Halle für Kunst (Lüneburg, Germany 2019)

Una Mujer Fantástica A Fantastic Woman at Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin, Germany 2018)

Notable Group Exhibitions

Stop Painting, curated by Peter Fischli at Fondazione Prada (Venice, 2021)

Studio Berlin at Berghain (Berlin, 2020)

Dicke Luft, An Exhibition by Tenzing Barshee at Galerie Bernhard (Zurich, 2019)

Policing the Police (performance) at MoMA PS1 (New York City, 2017)

Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer at Kunsthalle Bern (Bern, 2017)

Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum (New York, 2017)

Group exhibition 2017 at James Fuentes (New York City, 2017)

X Nicaraguan Biennale (Managua, 2016)

Press

She has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Interview Magazine, Forbes and The New York Times, among others.