Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) ‘14 MFA is one of 9 Yale alumni artists featured in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Puppies Puppies has two pieces on display at the Biennale. Elena Ketelsen González describes: A Sculpture for Trans Women… (2023) is a life-size bronze sculpture taken from a 3-D scan of the artist’s body. Emblazoned with the word “WOMAN”, the …

Lauren Halsey ’14 MFA, one of 9 Yale artists at the 2024 Venice Biennale, has received lots of attention for her contributions to Biennale’s main exhibition. Her “Keepers of the Krown” sculptures are a collection of pillars with hieroglyphs that depict sphinxified portraits of artists and friends from the South Central LA neighborhood from which Halsey hails. Jasmine Sanders with …