It's a sculpture of a hypothetical dog/human hybrid that was featured in an exhibition of "Genetic Art", which sought to envision the future of genetics via lifelike visual art.
The exhibition also had a sculpture of two clone boys who had become prematurely aged, a bunch of "meerkat people", and a young girl playing with shapless blobs that were supposed to be representative of stem cells.
I think it's actually very thought provoking. Oh, and I think it may actually have been done by a lady. They had it on a TV show here in Oz.