SuttonBeresCuller

Bio/CV

SuttonBeresCuller is a group of three Seattle based artists—John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler—who have worked collaboratively since 2000. The trio’s work ranges in presentation from gallery works, to installation, performance, and public projects. Working in and outside of traditional gallery settings, they aim to engage and provoke unsuspecting audiences with their works which are often not what they seem.

SuttonBeresCuller’s work plays on identity, perception, and instinct. They create playful scenarios by reinterpreting archetypal objects and transforming them in material, space, and place. They have completed several public projects and commissions around the Seattle area and along the west coast. SuttonBeresCuller is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

2012

2011

  • Mars vs Venus, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
  • The Magic Show, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle; Kathy Lindenmayer, curator
  • MadHomes Project, “Ties That Bind”, MadArt, Seattle; Brian Ohno, curator
  • Show and Tell: Objectivity, Cornish Main Gallery, Seattle

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

  • Bashville, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004

2003

  • Seattle Collects, City Space Gallery, Seattle; Beth Sellars, curator
  • Dark and Sweet, 1506 Projects, Seattle
  • Alumni Exhibition, Washington Convention and Trade Center, Seattle; Bonnie Biggs, curator

2002

  • Little Things Count, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle
  • Recent In Origin, Secluded Alley Works, Seattle

2001

2000

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/HONORS

2014

  • Jentel Foundation Residency, Banner, WY

2013

  • Art Matters Grant, Art Matters Foundation, New York
  • GAP grant, Artist Trust, Seattle
  • MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
  • Artist Trust Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

  • GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle
  • Artists In Residence, Consolidated Works, Seattle

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Fine Arts, Cornish College of the Arts; Seattle, WA

REPRESENTATION

Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Faculty, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, 01/2011 – 12/2012

COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC WORKS

2013

  • For the Birds, Temporary Art Commissions for Sound Transit Light Rail, Seattle
  • Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Library Desk

2012

2010

2009

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Clark College, Visiting Artists Lecture Series, June 10, 2014, Vancouver, WA

Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visiting Artists, November 18, 2013, Syracuse, NY

MacDowell Downtown, Fellowship Presentation, November 1, 2013, Peterborough, NH

Visiting Artist Lecture Series, “A Question of Permanence,” January 2013, presentations at Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane Falls Community College, and Eastern Washington University

Panel Discussion: “When artists innovate do communities resonate?” November 8, 2011, Artist Trust, Seattle

“When One Plus One Equals More (or Less) than Two: Artistic Collaboration Now,” October 2011, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle

“Panptos Revisited, A Panel Discussion on Art and Technology,” Feb 2011, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

University of Washington School of Art, “Public/Private” lecture, November 2010, Seattle

Guest Artist Lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, November 2010, Seattle

Museologly Department Lecture,University of Washington,  October 2010, Seattle

Artists Lecture, September 2010 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Artist and Architecture Collaborations,” Arcade Magazine, June 2010, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

Visiting Artist Series, Zero1, May 2010, San Jose

Carbon Neutrality Unconference,” Art, Culture & Urban Life, April 2010, Mithun Architecture, Seattle

John Boylan’s Conversation Series: Artist Residencies, Vermillion Gallery, March 2010, Seattle

Artist in Residence Lecture Series, MacDowell Colony, February 2010, Peterborough, NH

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture,  February 2010,  Boston

National Brownfields Conference, “Small Sites,” Tacoma Convention Center, October 2010, Tacoma, WA

Northern Lights Symposium: “Experimenting with Art in Public Places,” Keynote Presentation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, October 2008, Minneapolis, MN

Arts and the Environment: A Dialog,” PACCAR Paviion, SAM Olympic Sculpture Park, July 2008, Seattle

Sienna Architecture Artist Lecture Series Evening, Seattle Art Museum,  September 2007, Seattle

Barbara Willson Memorial Lecture Series, University of Nebraska,  February 2004, Omaha, NE

Visiting Artists Series, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art,  February 2004, Omaha, NE

Artists in Residence Lecture Series, Consolidated Works, December 2003, Seattle

Visiting Artists, Cornish College of the Arts, December 2003, Seattle

Suyama Space Lecture Series, Suyama Space, October 2002, Seattle