Knit Skull Detail from "Transcending the Material"
2014
32.4" x 21.6"
Giclee print.
Ben Cuevas (b. 1987, Southern California) is a Los Angeles based artist working in textiles, sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound, and performance. His practice underscores queer/feminist ideologies, with a focus on the condition of embodiment. He received a BA in Mixed Media Installation Art from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2010). He was artist in residence at the Wassaic Project in New York State (2010) and BoxoPROJECTS in Joshua Tree, CA (2019). As a queer, non-binary, HIV-positive, Latinx artist, identity directly influences his work, which he often uses to raise awareness highlighting the personal as political.
Cuevas has exhibited in galleries and museums such as The Museum of the City of New York, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, ONE Gallery, Coagula Curatorial, Thompkins Projects West, and many more. He has given talks on various aspects of art and knitting at events and venues including the Textile Society of America Symposium (2014), Vogue Knitting Live (2015), Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair (2017), The Museum of Sex (2018), and as a special guest of the Fire Island Artist Residency (2018). He was a guest lecturer and workshop facilitator in the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University (2018). Several books and publications feature Cuevas’s work, such as DUETS: Ben Cuevas & Annie Sprinkle in Conversation (2017), published by Visual AIDS; Queer Threads: Crafting, Identity, and Community (2017), edited by John Chaich and Todd Oldham; Ceci n’est pas un pull (2018), published by Pyramyd Éditions, Paris, France; and Unraveled (2018), published by Thames & Hudson, London, UK.
Dimension
Height: 32.40 in
Width: 21.60 in