Push Pops formed in 2010 at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where both Cercone and Garcia obtained their MFA in 2011.
Push Pops studied with Marilyn Minter, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Dan Cameron, Kate Gilmore (artist) and Jacqueline Winsor while at SVA.
Push Pops first unofficial performance happened spontaneously during a visit to artist Portia Munson’s “Pink Project” at P.P.O.W.
Push Pops has been artist-in-residence at Soho20 Chelsea gallery in New York City [7] and Alexandra Arts in Manchester, UK.
As a young adult, Push Pop co-leader Katie Cercone interned at Bitch (magazine) where she was introduced to Third-wave feminism and its critique of popular culture.
Push Pops also performed a piece called Bad Bitches, a collaboration with Michelle Marie Charles.
Bad Bitches was performed in the center of Luis Gispert’s sculptural Jamaican sound system the Brooklyn Museum commissioned for the party and referenced the glitzy black power aesthetic of Mickalene Thomas, commercial rap music and nudity as a feminist protest tactic used by groups such as FEMEN.
Push Pops collaborated with painter Bryn McConnell in a performance called "Girlesque," featured in Bomb (magazine).
Push Pops performed “Bulimic Flow,”[23] a yoga hip hop fusion featuring TLC (group)’s lyric “crazy sexy cool” as Mantra.
A collaboration with Andrae Hinds, Bulimic Flow happened during Amy Smith Stewart’s exhibition CAMPAIGN at C24 Gallery[24] In the spring of 2013, Go!
Push Pops were invited to Baltimore by the Maryland Institute College of Art where they performed with BoomBoxBoy (the rap artist Prince Harvey known for secretly recording his entire PHATASS album in the Apple Store),[25] in a nomadic work that moved through local businesses of the Baltimore Arts District.
Push Pops performed for Art in Odd Places[28] Festival for which they collaborated with Meg Welch on a piece about inter-military rape called “500,000.”[29] Go!