b. 1988, Nottingham, UK
Joseph Cutts is an installation artist, international curator & film programmer based in Sheffield. His artistic practice is led by his research into everyday substances and technologies, reflecting their complex properties from a source, production, process driven and ecological perspective. Cutts’ recent works are constructed using custom systems, where configuration and choreography is often met with 'unscripted' fault.
In 2023 Cutts was awarded Arts Council funding to support his long-term artistic research into the cycle and formation of electronic waste, leading to curating the international group exhibition and recycling programme Traces of a Cathode, and the current undertaking of a two-year research residency at Forma HQ, London.
Selected recent exhibitions, residencies, publications & curatorial projects incl. Somos Naturaleza (Festival de Artes Verdes), Centro de Arte Molino Machmar: CAMM, Puerto Varas, Chile (2024); Show Your Metal, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield (2024); Colour, Form & Line, Graves Gallery Collection, Museums Sheffield (2023-24); Associate Artists Programme (Research Residency), Forma HQ, London (2022-24); Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de Cádiz: FACC, Cádiz, Spain (2024); STRIKE, Forma HQ, London (2023); Traces of a Cathode, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (2023); S1 Salon, Showroom Cinema (2022); The Sound Intervention Service, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Warsaw, Poland & Online (2020-21); Art House Residency Programme, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Warsaw, Poland & Online (2020); Construction House: Radical Materials, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (2019); H2O (Human Horizons Observatory), Bariloche/Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); Everything Flows, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield (2017).
His installations have been exhibited in collection displays alongside works by Cornelia Parker, Naum Gabo, Bridget Riley and Victor Burgin, as well as in response to works by Bahuahus Masters Marianne Brandt and László Moholy-Nagy. Selected recent press incl. reviews in Art Monthly, Frieze, e-flux, The Times, BBC News, La Nación (incl cover page), Agencia EFE, LaPresse+, Journal Métro, Contemporary Lynx, Corridor 8…
In 2024, Cutts' work Trigger Happy Discipline was acquired by the Sheffield Museums for their permanent collection.
Cutts has previously worked across the UK and Internationally as: Curator, S1 Artspace (2021-23); Curator & Artistic Advisor, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Warsaw (2020-21) and Curator & Head of Sheffield DocFest’s Arts Programme (Alternate Realities) (2010-20/22), an evolving programme aimed at studying the social, economical and ecological impact of advancements in modern technology through research, exhibition, touring and commissioning. Recent festival programmes incl. Ghosts & Apparitions (2020) & Subconscious Sensibilities, Site Gallery, Sheffield (2019). Selected international touring programmes incl. Realidades Alternativas - Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay; Unibes Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; MUTEK MX, Mexico City, Mexico & Center Phi, Montreal, Canada (2017 & 2018).
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Yorkshire Artspace
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