Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist based in the United States since 1987. She has received awards and grants such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, the United States Artists-Knight fellowship, the Pew fellowship in Visual Arts, the Anonymous is a Woman award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, among others. In 2013 her project CORPUS got the Grand Prize at the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennial in South Korea. Her exhibition credits include: KUKULI VELARDE: THE COMPLICIT EYE at Taller; KUKULI VELARDE at AMOCA; PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Yenggi Museum of Ceramics' Biennial of Taipei; CORPUS at the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial ; also KUKULI VELARDE: PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in, PATRIMONIO at Barry Friedman Gallery and PLUNDER ME, BABY at Garth Clark Gallery. She is married to Doug Herren, sculptor and they have a small daughter named Vida. They live in Philadelphia, PA. USA.