Ben Cuevas | Curriculum Vitae

BenCuevas@gmail.com  •  www.BenCuevas.com  •  Los Angeles, CA


Education

2010

B.A. Studio Art: Mixed Media Installation & Photography, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 

2003 & 2005

Scholar of the Arts: Film/Video, California State Summer School for the Arts at CalArts, Valencia, CA

 

Solo Exhibitions & Installations

2023

Non-Binary Code, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Queering the Landscape, BoxoPROJECTS, Joshua Tree, CA

2013

Duality #1, Knit Culture Studio, Los Angeles, CA

2011

Transcending the Material, Knit Culture Studio, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Healing Disparities: The Condition of Embodiment, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA

2009

Media Coverage, Harold F. Johnson Library, Amherst, MA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Resonantly Me: A Queer Artist’s Invitational, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

In Plain Sight: Queer Rural Narratives From the Water and the Land, Breck Create, Breckenridge, CO

2023

Entanglement, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

Influences/Influencers: California Fibers, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA

Angelic Troublemakers, West Hollywood Library, West Hollywood, CA

Connective Threads, Palos Verdes Art Center

Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber Arts, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

2022

Beyond Binary, Fine Arts Gallery, SF State University, San Francisco, CA

Boxo10x10, BoxoPROJECTS

Surface, Substance, Structure: Selections from California Fibers, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

2021

Human +: Living & Making During the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

2020

XicanX: New Visions, Centro de Artes Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2019

On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY

Unlikely Confluence, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL

2018

Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism, ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

New Threads: Perspectives in Contemporary Fiber Art, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

2017

AIDS at Home: Everyday Art and Activism, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

¡Mírame! Expressions of Queer Latinx Art, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA

Queer Threads, Arcana Books on the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Queer Califas: LA Latinx Art, Plummer Park, West Hollywood, CA

Stitch Fetish, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA

2016

Gather & Transform, Spring Arts Collective Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Alt Fibers, Branch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Persons of Interest, The Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, New York, NY

2015

Femo, Wallspace, Los Angeles, CA

Stitch Fetish, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014

The Adonis Project, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

Body Conscious: Southern California Fiber, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA

Queer Biennial I, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA

Queer Threads, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY

2013

Mix NYC Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Fiber 2 Form, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY

Riot I, Gay Pride Festival Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2012

The Queer Pile-Up, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA

Install: WeHo (outdoor exhibition), West Hollywood, CA

Home Is Where the Needle Marks, Pop Tart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011

In-Organic, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY

Tasting Cultures, Latino Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI

Tompkins Projects West, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Vogue Knitting Live, New York Hilton, New York, NY

2010

The Wassaic Project Summer Music & Art Festival, Wassaic, NY

All at Once, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA

2009

Lo-Fi Arts Festival, Smoke Farm Arts Collective, Arlington, WA

 

Professional Experience

2023

California State University Long Beach — Visiting Artist

Studio 203 — Guest Speaker

Craft in America Center — Guest Speaker

Angel’s Gate Cultural Center — Guest Speaker

2022

Bethany Arts Community — Artist in Residence

Indiana University — Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer

San Francisco State University — Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer

Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh — Guest Speaker

Community Ties: 2022 Surface Design Association Conference — Guest Speaker

The Wassaic Project Winter Residency — Application Panel Juror

Future Tense, Surface Design Association — Exhibition Juror

2021

Brown University — Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer

National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures Advocacy Leadership Institute

2020

Safer at Home, ONE Archives, University of Southern California — Guest Speaker

2019

BoxoPROJECTS, Joshua Tree, CA — Artist in Residence

2018

Palm Springs Art Museum — Visiting Artist, Guest lecturer, and Workshop Facilitator

Ohio State University — Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer, and Workshop Facilitator

Museum of Sex, New York, NY — Panel Discussion with Annie Sprinkle, Ben Cuevas, and Beth Stephens, presented by Visual AIDS

Fire Island Artist Residency — Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer

2017

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair — Panel Discussion with Annie Sprinkle, Ben Cuevas, and Beth Stephens, presented by Visual AIDS

2015

Desert Knitting Guild Lecture & Workshop, Palm Springs, CA — Presenter and teacher on the topic of 3D knitting

Vogue Knitting Live Pasadena, CA — Presenter and teacher on the topic of 3D knitting

2014

Textile Society of America Symposium, Los Angeles, CA — Panelist for “The Masculine Mystique: Men in Fiber Art”

2010

The Wassaic Project Summer Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY

2009

Artist’s Assistant to Susan Robb, Seattle, WA

Artist’s Assistant to Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles, CA

Artist’s Assistant to Kate Rhode, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Selected Performances

2014

Jockstrap, Queer Biennial: Art Basel, Hotel Gaythering, Miami, FL

BenBot 5000: Lascivious, Akbar, Los Angeles, CA

Man’s Body / Woman’s Work, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Benbot 5000: Get Money Get Paid, The Lexington, Los Angeles, CA

2009

The Island, Robert Crown Center, Amherst, MA

 

Film and Video

2015

Jockstrap (short: performance documentation, as performer, editor, producer & videographer)

2012

Spiritual Eugenics (short, as art department, collaborative artist)

2005

Let’s Meat (short, as writer, director, editor, producer & filmographer)

Division (short, as co-writer, director, editor, producer & filmographer)

Fat Kid (short, as writer, director, editor, producer & videographer)

 

Awards

2015

Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant

2012

ArtSlant Showcase, www.artslant.com

2010

Joe Liebling Grant for Film & Video Projects

2008

Best of the Druid Underground Film Festival

 

Selected Press & Publications

2022

The POZ 100, POZ Magazine, New York, NY

Crafting a Relational Queer Body: The Knitted Artivism of Ben Cuevas, by Dr. Guisela Latorre, Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

2019

The New York Times, New York, NY

2018

POZ Magazine, New York, NY

A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community, edited by John Chaich & Todd Oldham

Ceci n'est pas un pull: Le tricot et le crochet dans l'art contemporain, Edited by Charlotte Vannier, Pyramyd Éditions

2016

The New York Times, New York, NY

Duets: Ben Cuevas & Annie Sprinkle in Conversation, a collaboration with Visual AIDS

HIV Positive Magazine, Glenwood Springs, CO

2015

Ginza, Japan

2014

Wire Magazine, New York, NY

Miami Herald, Miami, FL

Miami Art News, Miami, FL

ArtSlant, Los Angeles, CA

The Advocate, New York, NY

2013

The Huffington Post, New York, NY

WeHoVille, West Hollywood, CA

2012

LA Weekly, Los Angeles, CA

Frontiers Magazine, West Hollywood, CA

2011

Interweave Knits, Ft. Collins, CO

Frontiers Magazine, West Hollywood, CA

2010

Collectif Tricot, France

 

Collections

Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY

Ace Hotel Group, Los Angeles, CA

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

The Bill Arning Gay Art Collection

Joyce Holdings LMTD, Beijing, China

 

Professional Affiliations

Surface Design Association

Textile Arts Los Angeles

California Fibers