Ben Cuevas
Ben Cuevas (born 1987) is a queer, non-binary, HIV-positive, Latinx, multi-disciplined artist based in Los Angeles. Cuevas’ work focuses on the conditions of embodied practice through textiles, sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound, and performance.
Early life
Career
Cuevas has been featured in The New York Times[1], Juxtapoz[2], Artforum[3], ArtSlant[4], and Observer[5]. Cuevas’ textiles explore activism, embodiment, gender, and issues around HIV/AIDS through installation and performance, subverting knitting as political protest through lenses of pop culture, gendered identities, and social media. His work spans a wide range of disciplines, often incorporating several of these elements into any given piece, using digital media as a means of documentation.
His work Knit Veins challenges viewers’ fears of HIV and helps revive the queer culture lost to AIDS and gentrification, as offered in the installation Ghosts of the Trucks of the West Side Highway (2011). The Tweetables Series: Knit Text in 140 Characters or Less (2015), merges the contemporary language and aesthetics of social media with the anachronistic softness of knitting and yarn.
In 2018, Cuevas was profiled in A&U[6], which highlighted his ongoing collaboration with Annie Sprinkle.
Artistic work
Transcending the Material (Skeleton)[7]
Jockstrap[8]
Ghosts of the Trucks of the Westside Highway[9]
Knit Veins[10]
Knit PrEP[11]
PILLows
Tweetables series
Twitterstorm
Queering the Landscape[12]
Reinserted Series[13]
Awards and Residencies
Boxo Projects Art Residency (2019)[14]
Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant (2015)[15]
The Wassaic Project Art Residency (2010)[17]
Joe Liebling Grant for Film & Video Projects (2010)[18]
Best of the Druid Underground Film Festival (2008)[19]
References
- ↑ Ferla, Ruth La (2019-09-25). "Time to Trot Out the Fishnets and Put on a Show". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Juxtapoz Magazine - A Hand-Knit Skeleton From Ben Cuevas". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Alex Fialho at the 5th Los Angeles Art Book Fair". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Alex Fialho at the 5th Los Angeles Art Book Fair". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Six Political Works to Check Out at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair". Observer. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ Needle, Chael. "Ben Cuevas: Cover Story | A&U Magazine". Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Artist Highlights: Ben Cuevas". Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ Rothaus, Steve (12/02/2014). "LGBT artists, exhibits featured during Miami Art Week in Miami Beach, Wynwood". Miami Herald. Retrieved 12/12/2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|access-date=, |date=(help) - ↑ "Visual AIDS | Ben Cuevas: Fire Island Artist Residency Lecture Series". Visual AIDS. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "hivpositivemagazine.com". www.hivpositivemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ "Visual AIDS | Ben Cuevas". Visual AIDS. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "Queering the Landscape". BoxoPROJECTS. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ Ferla, Ruth La (2019-09-25). "Time to Trot Out the Fishnets and Put on a Show". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ↑ ""Body Conscious: Southern California Fiber" @ Craft in America". PLATINUM CHEESE. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "CV". Ben Cuevas. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "Ben Cuevas". ArtSlant. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "Artist Residency Alumni". Wassaic Project. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ "Queer Arts in Los Angeles". almalopez.com. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
- ↑ Carnage, Sean (2011-08-06). "L.A.'s Got Talent: Best of the Druid Underground Film Fest". SEANCARNAGE.COM. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
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