Puppies Puppies

Puppies Puppies grew up outside of Dallas, Texas.[3] Her mother is Japanese and her father is Puerto Rican.[1][3] She attended the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as Yale University's MFA program.[4][5] She became interested in performance as an art form in high school when she dressed up as her school's mascot.[6] In 2010, the artist had a life-threatening brain tumor, which was successfully removed.[1]

The artist is known for working in a wide range of media and materials, including blood, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fan art, crab carapaces, Swiffers and Minions paraphernalia.[7] her 2015 exhibition HorseshoeCrabs HorseshoeCrabs at the Freddy Gallery, Baltimore displayed various artistic interpretations of the horseshoe crab, an arthropod whose blood is often drained for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing.[8][9] In 2016 she participated in the Berlin Biennale, presenting a new video each day of the biennale.[10] In 2017 her work Liberté (Liberty) was included in the Whitney Biennial.[11] The piece involved a performer wearing a green gown along with a crown standing on an outdoor terrace of the Whitney Museum; simultaneously, the Whitney's gift shop sold $5 liberty crowns to visitors.[12] The work is the only piece of performance art in the Whitney permanent collection.[3] In 2019, Interview Magazine published a conversation between Laura Albert and Puppies Puppies, where the artist publicly revealed her identity for the first time, coming out as a "Latinx transgender woman."[1] Her 2019 solo show at Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan engaged blood as a subject.[3] The exhibition displayed a bag of the artist's own blood, as well as providing on-site HIV testing and blood donation services to visitors.[13][14] Her work focuses on frequent collaboration, especially with other queer and trans artists.[3]