Cuppetelli and Mendoza

Education

Annica Cuppetelli

2008

MFA, Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

2002

BFA, Fiber, Ceramics, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.

Cristobal Mendoza

2007

MFA, Digital+Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

2003

BA, Visual Arts (Interactive Arts), University of Maryland Baltimore County.

1997 — 2000

Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD.

Solo Exhibitions

2021

• in/play: Cuppetelli and Mendoza. The Rooms, St. John’s, NL, Canada.

2017

• in::Sequence. Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI.

2015

• Breaking the Plane. Logistics Fine Arts, Miami, FL.

2014

• Interference Pool. Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI.

2013

• Transposition. Fuse Box Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
• Cuppetelli/Mendoza: Nervous Structure. Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA.
• Cuppetelli and Mendoza. John C. Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN.

2012

• artLab: Cuppetelli and Mendoza. Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI. 
• Threaded Interface. Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

• Neon and Light Museum. Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2019

• //RESPONSIVE 2019. Halifax, NS, Canada.
• Luminescence. Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI.

2018

• COLLUMINA. Cologne, Germany
• Motor City Icon: The Spirit of Detroit. Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI.

2017

• DLECTRICITY 2017. Detroit, MI.
• International Light Art Project //RESPONSIVE. Halifax, NS, Canada. Curated by Bettina Pelz.
• Art Central Hong Kong 2017. Hong Kong.

2016

• LIGHT LINE. Center MARS Abrau. Abrau-Durso, Russia.
• Microwave International New Media Arts Festival: BE WATER II. Hong Kong.
• Currents New Media Arts Festival. Santa Fe, NM.
• Friends of Friends. Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI.

2015

• Art & Algorithms Digital Arts Festival. Titusville, FL.
• Stimulus/Affect/Response. Oakland University, Oakland County, MI.
• PLUNC New Media and Digital Art Festival. Lisbon, Portugal.
• Pulse Art + Technology Festival 2015. Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA.

2014

• TecnoFIA, Feria Iberoamericana del Arte 2014, Caracas, Venezuela.
• Pulse Art + Technology Festival 2014. Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA.
• Mois Multi 15. Quebec City, Canada.
• Out of Line. Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.

2013

• Trouble Makers: Sensation Versus Digital. Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France.
• Lichtrouten 2013. Lüdenscheid, Germany.
• Void Loop. Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
• FILE EXHIBITION-CASINO. SESQ Quitandinha, Petropolis, Brazil (curated by Paula Perissinotto).
• video_dumbo 2013. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, NY, NY.
• Oslo LUX 2013. Oslo, Norway.

2012

• Dlectricity. Detroit, MI.
• Scopitone 2012. Nantes, France.
• ISEA 2012. 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (catalogue).
• Return to Rattlesnake Mountain. Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
• Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialog. Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL.
• Currents 2012. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.
• 10^o Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales. Santiago, Chile (curated by Paula Perissinotto).

2011

• InLight 2011. 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA (juried by Matthew Lyons).
• Structural Subjectivity. Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI.
• video_dumbo 2011. New York, NY.
• FAD 2011. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• FILE 2011. SESI Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Paula Perissinotto) (catalog).
• Currents 2011. Santa Fe, NM.
• Beacons. Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.

2010

• Transition. CCS Faculty and Alumni Hall, Detroit MI.

Awards/Fellowships/Residencies

2015

• Kresge Arts in Detroit Visual Arts Fellows

2013

• ARCADI (Agence Culturelle D’Île-De-France) grant towards the production of new work in Paris, FR. March 2013.

2012

• David Bermant Foundation Fellows. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

2011

• Santa Fe Art Institute (residency), Santa Fe, NM.
• The Wassaic Project (residency), Wassaic, NY.

Commissions

2010

• Untitled (Ebb and Flow), Compuware Corporation, Detroit, MI.

Mentions and Reviews

• Becky Hunter, “Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza” (review of exhibition). Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 32 Issue 3 April 2013.
• Jonathan Openshaw, “Sculptural Illusion”, POSTmatter, September 29, 2014.
• D. Eric Bookhardt, “Review: Void Loop.” Best of New Orleans, August 20^th 2013. Accessed August 2013.
• Dylan DeRose, “Create Undulating Waves Of Light And Sound Using Your Body”, The Creators Project (blog). June 10, 2013.
• Courtney R. Thomson, “Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue” (review of exhibition). Art in Print, September – October 2012.
• Carolina Lara, “10th Video and Media Arts Biennial: Against the Dominance of Machines” (review of exhibition). Art Nexus, Issue #84 Mar-May 2012. Accessed January 2013:
• Michael Abatemarco and Nancy Salem, “Santa Fe: New Partners and New Media” Art Ltd., July 2012. Accessed January 2013.
• Maegan Arthurs, “FiberPalooza – Pae White’s Summer XX at the FWM and Threaded Interface at Grizzly Grizzly,” the artblog. April 20, 2012.
• Tim Maly, “A Light Projection That Blurs The Boundary Between Physical And Digital”, Fast Company’s Co.Design. February 8, 2012.
• Daniela Arceo, “Estructura Nerviosa (Nervous Structure) / Cuppetelli & Mendoza”, Plataforma Arquitectura (blog). February 27, 2012. http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl
• Emilio Gomariz, “Nervous Structure (field)”, Triangulation Blog (blog). February 2, 2012. http://triangulationblog.org

Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations

2015

• Panelist, Stimulus/Affect/Response symposium, Oakland University, Oakland County, MI.
• Artist Talk, PLUNC Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.

2014

• Presentation and Panel Discussion, Pulse Art + Technology Festival, Savannah GA.

2013

• Visiting Artists, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Visual Arts, Baltimore, MD.
• Hamilton Visiting Artists, University of Denver, Denver, CO.
• Presentation, Oslo LUX 2013, Oslo, Norway.
• Visiting Artist, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (Cuppetelli).
• Visiting Critic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI (Cuppetelli).

2012

• Panel Discussion, Innovators and Legends, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI (Cuppetelli).
• Artist Talk, Initiate, MOCAD, Detroit, MI (Mendoza).

2011

• Artist Talk, Compuware Corporation, Detroit, MI.

2010

• Visiting Artist, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (Cuppetelli).
• Artist Talk Lecturer, Unraveling the Familiar, Ann Arbor art Center, Ann Arbor, MI (Cuppetelli).

2009

• Visiting Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (Mendoza).

2008

• Selected Lecturer, Kunsthochschule Weibensee, Berlin, Germany (Cuppetelli).
• Artist Talk Lecturer, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (Cuppetelli).
• Panel Discussion, Building Fashion, MOCAD, Detroit, MI (Cuppetelli).

Collections

• Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA.
• Private collection, Miami, FL.