Puppy explores the relations between humans and canines through the entanglement of companionship and domestication. As the first animal domesticated by humans, the biological dog has been shaped by generations of selective breeding, shifting vastly from its origins as a wolf. Contemporary robotic quadrupeds emerge as both a continuation and rupture of this trajectory, provoking the breakdown of familiar forms of companionship and the complex layers of care and control embedded within them.

Brad Nath (b. 1995, New York) is an artist based in Berlin. 

Their practice investigates the historical, contemporary, and speculative entanglements of the body and technology. The works recompose techniques across robotics, animatronics, prosthetics, puppetry, and cosplay to produce hybrid subjects that span installation, performance, and sculpture. Often developing articulated armatures concealed within artificial fursuits, the works perform as sites where the shifting terms of companionship are negotiated across emergent technologies and human-animal relations.

Brad Nath received an MA with a focus on body-based research from HZT / Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at KUĆĆA / Media Mediterranea (Pula, 2026), Vorspiel CTM (Berlin, 2026), Galeria Szczur (Warsaw, 2025), and IRL Gallery (New York, 2024).