Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist based in the United States since 1987. She has received awards and grants such as the Virginia Groot First Prize (2023), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), the United States Artists-Knight fellowship (2009), the Pew fellowship in Visual Arts (2003), the Anonymous is a Woman award (2000), among others. In 2013 her project CORPUS got the Grand Prize at the Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennial in South Korea. She held tenure as faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022.

Her exhibition credits include CORPUS, a touring exhibition at SECCA (NC), the Halsey Institute (SC), and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (CO) among other venues in 2022-2023; KUKULI VELARDE: THE COMPLICIT EYE at Taller Puertorriqueño (Philadelphia, 2018-19); KUKULI VELARDE at AMOCA, (Los Angeles, 2017); PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Yenggi Ceramics Museum Biennial (Taiwan 2014); CORPUS (work in progress) at the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial (South Korea, 2013); KUKULI VELARDE: PLUNDER ME, BABY at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, KS, 2013); PATRIMONIO at Barry Friedman Gallery (NY, 2010) and PLUNDER ME, BABY at Garth Clark Gallery (NY, 2007).

She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, sculptor Doug Herren, and their daughter, Vida.