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
A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community, edited by John Chaich & Todd Oldham
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
2013
The Huffington Post, New York, NY
2012
LA Weekly, Los Angeles, CA
Frontiers Magazine, West Hollywood, CA
2011
Interweave Knits, Ft. Collins, CO
Frontiers Magazine, West Hollywood, CA
2010
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