Email: [email protected]
Web: bencuevas.com
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Ben Cuevas
Education
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
• Bachelor of Arts, May 2010
• Concentration: Studio Art (Mixed-Media Installation & Photography)
Los Angeles City College, 2005-2007
• Major: Film & Video
California State Summer School for the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia,
CA, 2003 & 2005
• California Art Scholar of Film & Video
Selected
Exhibitions &
Installations
Solo Shows & Installations:
Anatomical Knit Hoods. Art Basel Hong Kong, Joyce Boutique. Hong Kong. May 2013.
Duality #1: Knit Culture Studio, Los Angeles, CA, Feb.-March 2013
Transcending the Material, Knit Culture Studio, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.-Nov. 2011
Healing Disparities: The Condition of Embodiment, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, MA, May
2010
Media Coverage, Los Angeles, CA & Harold F. Johnson Library, Amherst, MA, May 2009
The Waiting Room, Centrum Gallery, Amherst, MA, April 2009
Privatization: The Alchemical Property of Water, Harold F. Johnson Library,
Amherst, MA, March 2009
Group Shows:
Fiber 2 Form. Salem Art Works. Salem, NY. June 2013.
The Queer Pile-Up. For Your Art. Los Angeles, CA. November 2012.
Install:WeHo. Los Angeles, CA. September 2012.
Home is where the Needle Marks. Pop Tart Gallery. Los Angeles, CA. July 2012.
A Degree of Privacy. The York. Los Angeles, CA. Feb. 2012.
Downtown Art Walk. Spring Arts Tower Gallery. Los Angeles, CA. Aug. 2011.
In-Organic. Collar Works Gallery. Troy, NY. Aug. 2011.
The Dirty Show. City Center Motel. Los Angeles, CA. June 2011.
Tasting Cultures: The Art of Latino Foodways. Latino Arts Center. Milwaukee, WI.
March-July 2011.
Tompkins Projects West. Dan Graham Gallery. Los Angeles, CA. Jan. 2011.
Vogue Knitting Live. New York Hilton. New York, NY. Jan. 2011.
The Wassaic Project Summer Music and Art Festival. Wassaic, NY. Aug. 2010.
All at Once. Canal Gallery. Holyoke, MA. May 2010.
Lo-Fi Arts Festival. Smoke Farm Arts Collective. Arlington, WA. Aug. 2009.
Selected
Performances
Benbot 5000: Get Money Get Paid. The Lexington. Los Angeles, CA. June, 2013.
Planet Queer. Akbar. Los Angels, CA. Feb. 2009.
The Island. Robert Crown Center, Amherst, MA. Feb. 2009.
Jock Strap. Robert Crown Center, Amherst, MA. Fall 2008.
Collections
Anatomical Knit-Hood Series. Joyce Holdings Lmtd. Beijing, China.
bencuevas.com
Film & Video
Spiritual Eugenics, 2012.
• Collaborative Artist
Let’s Meat, 2005.
• Writer, director, editor, producer, cinematographer
Division, 2005.
• Co-writer, director, editor, producer, cinematographer
Fat Kid, 2005.
• Writer, director, editor, producer, actor
Awards
ArtSlant Showcase, www.artslant.com, Feb. 2012.
Joe Liebling Grant for Film & Video Projects, Hampshire College, May 2010.
Best of the Druid Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2008.
Best Photography for Cinema, Los Angeles City College, 2007.
Professional
Experience
The Wassaic Project Summer Artist Residency, May-Aug. 2010.
Artist’s Assistant to Susan Robb, Seattle, WA, June-Aug. 2009.
• Assisted in the production and installation of mixed-media art.
Artist’s Assistant to Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 2008-Jan. 2009.
• Produced large scale paintings, drawings, and installations.
• Museum Preparator: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania Jan. 2009.
Artist’s Assistant to Kate Rhode, Vilnius, Lithuania, Jan. 2009.
• Assisted in production of sculptural, mixed media installation.
Selected
Press and
Published
Works
Couturier, Solène. “Ben Cuevas.” Collectif France Tricot. 8 Nov. 2010. <http://c-ft.net/en/2010/11/ben-cuevas-2/>.
Cuevas, Ben. “Fat Kid.” Falling Hard. Ed. Betsy Franco. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press,
2009. 105-7.
Cuevas, Ben. “Genitosexual”. The Reader, Vol. 16 (2010): pp. 36.
Cuevas, Ben. “The Waiting Room.” The Reader, Vol. 15 (2009): pp. 47.
Gschwandtner, Sabrina. “Bare Bones Knitting.” Interweave Knits. Vol. XVI (Summer
2011): pp. 16.
Lira, Aces J. “Ben Cuevas.” Queer Arts in Los Angeles. 2 Jan. 2013. <http://www.
almalopez.com/projects/QALA/CuevasBen/CuevasBen.html>.
Mici, Bora. “Industrial Cathedral of Arts: The Wassaic Project.”
Artistsspeak.blogspot.com. 17 August 2010. <http://arttistsspeak.blogspot.com
/2010/08/climb-up-narrow-stairwell-at-maxon.html>.
Page, Sylvia. "Knit Thyself, Know Thyself: A Medicine Show." Healing Disparities: The
Condition of Embodiment. 11-15.
Richmond-Havel, Aaron. "Fiber Arts: From Spiritual Concepts to Corporality."
Hampshire.edu. Hampshire College, May 2010. Web.
<http://www.hampshire.edu/news/18073.htm>.
Stern, Becky. “Amazing Knit Skeleton.” Craft: Transforming Traditional Craft. O'Reilly
Media, Inc. 10 October 2010. <http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/10/amazing_
knit_skeleton.html>.