Kukuli Velarde

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About the Artist
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist based in the United States since 1987. She has received awards and grants such as the Guggenheim Fellowship (New York, 2015), the United States Artists-Knight fellowship (California, 2009), the Pew fellowship in Visual Arts (Pennsylvania, 2003), the Anonymous is a Woman award (New York, 2000), the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant (New York, 1997), among others. In 2013 her project CORPUS got the Grand Prize at the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennial in South Korea. She was part of faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. Her exhibition credits include: CORPUS touring exhibition at UTSA South West, Halsey Institute and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (2022), KUKULI VELARDE: THE COMPLICIT EYE at Taller (Philadelphia, 2018-19); KUKULI VELARDE at AMOCA, (Los Angeles 2017); PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Yenggi Museum of Ceramics’ Biennial of Taipei (Taiwan 2014); CORPUS (work in Progress) at the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial (South Korea 2013); also KUKULI VELARDE: PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in (Kansas City, KS in 2013), PATRIMONIO at Barry Friedman Gallery (New York, 2010) and PLUNDER ME, BABY at Garth Clark Gallery (New York, 2007). She is married to Doug Herren, sculptor and they have a daughter named Vida. They live in Philadelphia, PA. USA.