The artist is Tom Otterness.

Tom Otterness website

On Artsy - Here's a pretty one: Life and Death

Gold Rush

Tom Otterness - Gold Rush

Gold Rush - Brief description on The U.S. General Services Administration website.

Tom Otterness filmed himself shooting and killing his dog in 1977

The Dog-Killing Woes of Tom Otterness | By Michael H. Miller | Observer website 10/04/11. An article about Tom Otterness executing his dog and filming it in 1977. The article makes a large point of this artist - of limitless nonentity - making BIG bucks for public and private commissions.

Excerpts:

In 1977, not so long after moving to New York from Wichita, Tom Otterness shot his dog and filmed it for a video called "Shot Dog Film." For many years, there were not a lot of repercussions for Mr. Otterness. ... He now makes cartoonish sculptures like the ones that adorn the 8th avenue and 14th street subway station or the large playgrounds at luxury apartment buildings like Silver Towers on W. 42nd street. The artist and critic Gary Indiana recalled the dog incident in an article in New York Magazine in 2004 about the New Museum’s “East Village USA” show. Mr. Otterness was included in the exhibition. Mr. Indiana said he was “repulsed” by the decision and went on to say Mr. Otterness was:

“A sculptor of limitless nonentity despite his demonstrated skill at conning public-art commissions and taste-impaired collectors into making him rich. Mr. Otterness, once upon a time, adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film.”

In an article we wrote on Mr. Otterness this year, he mentioned that he makes millions of dollars for some private commissions. We concluded, “The man who shot his dog for art currently makes an average of seven figures for large private commissions in someone’s backyard .”

Tom Otterness, Shot Dog Film (1977) - Brief article on Tumblr categorized art collection.

Excerpts: The artist adopted a dog and filmed himself shooting it, and displayed the film in an infinite loop (could not find online clips of the film, so this news headline will have to suffice for “documentation.”) ... At the time it was supposed to serve as a demonstration of war protest, but it failed to prompt conversation about politics of war and instead became an issue of animal cruelty.