JANELLE IGLESIAS
www.LasHermanasIglesias.com
janelleiglesias@gmail.com
Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of California San Diego
b. Queens, NYC, 1980
lives and works in Southern CA
EDUCATION
2009: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006: MFA, Sculpture, VCU, Richmond VA
2002: BA, Cultural Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
2025: Las Hermanas Iglesias, ICA San Diego, Encinitas, CA (forthcoming)
2024: Text/Tile, Pacific Highland Ranch Library, SD Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego, CA
Las Hermanas and Bodhild Iglesias, PULP, Holyoke, MA
2023: UNDER THE SAME SUN / BAJO EL MISMO SOL, SD Commission for Arts and Culture, San Ysidro, San Diego, CA
www.LasHermanasIglesias.com
janelleiglesias@gmail.com
Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of California San Diego
b. Queens, NYC, 1980
lives and works in Southern CA
EDUCATION
2009: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006: MFA, Sculpture, VCU, Richmond VA
2002: BA, Cultural Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS
2025: Las Hermanas Iglesias, ICA San Diego, Encinitas, CA (forthcoming)
2024: Text/Tile, Pacific Highland Ranch Library, SD Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego, CA
Las Hermanas and Bodhild Iglesias, PULP, Holyoke, MA
2023: UNDER THE SAME SUN / BAJO EL MISMO SOL, SD Commission for Arts and Culture, San Ysidro, San Diego, CA
Loose Lips, MATERIAL CONTEMPORARY, Salt Lake City, UT
2022: Las Hermanas Iglesias, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2021: M(other) Tongues (LH + Bodhild Iglesias), National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA
2019: Mirror Rim (LH) Washington and Lee University, Lexington,VA
2018: LOOPS AT A SPOOL (Familien Iglesias) Ortega Y Gasset, NY, NY
SOMOS O NOS SOMOS (LH), Galleria Mamey, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2017: HERE, HERE (LH), ACME Lab, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Re: sisters (LH), Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2017: Every Force Evolves a Form (L&J), Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2016: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
seesaw / seasaw (L&J) 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015: Collaborators, Comrades & Good Companions (LH), Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
never odd or even (L&J) Mulherin, NY, NY
2014: in high feather, University of Buffalo, Lightwell Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Constellation for a Conundrum, commission for PS 51, Public Art for Public Schools, NY, NY
2013: We are all so far away from the sun, waiting (L&J) NO FOUNDATION, Toronto, Canada
2012: Cartwheel Galaxy, Larissa Goldston, NY, NY
2011: Fell from the Same Tree (L&J), Y Gallery, NY, NY
2010: Flight of the Forgotten, Galeria Isabel Hurley, Malaga, Spain
2009: Overture to Whirl, Sunroom Project Space, WaveHill, Bronx, NY
INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE: RECENT & SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023:
To Fix the Object in Memory, SD Art Prize Exhibition, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
2022:
Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA
2021:
SD Practice, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
2020:
Illumination: 21st Century Interactions with Art+Science+Technology, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2019:
Axxon N: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE, Essex Flowers, NY, NY
2018:
Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo, Museum of Contemporary Art SD, San Deigo, CA
Connections: Visual Fellows of the Cape, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Bodies of a Different Mass, Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Call + Response, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2016
Twenty Sixteen in 2016, Smackmellon, NY, NY
2015
Sounds Like, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Sounds Like, Heron Art Gallery, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN
In Practice: Under Foundations, Sculpture Center, NY, NY
State Park, UCSD Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014
2022: Las Hermanas Iglesias, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2021: M(other) Tongues (LH + Bodhild Iglesias), National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA
2019: Mirror Rim (LH) Washington and Lee University, Lexington,VA
2018: LOOPS AT A SPOOL (Familien Iglesias) Ortega Y Gasset, NY, NY
SOMOS O NOS SOMOS (LH), Galleria Mamey, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2017: HERE, HERE (LH), ACME Lab, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Re: sisters (LH), Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2017: Every Force Evolves a Form (L&J), Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2016: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
seesaw / seasaw (L&J) 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015: Collaborators, Comrades & Good Companions (LH), Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
never odd or even (L&J) Mulherin, NY, NY
2014: in high feather, University of Buffalo, Lightwell Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Constellation for a Conundrum, commission for PS 51, Public Art for Public Schools, NY, NY
2013: We are all so far away from the sun, waiting (L&J) NO FOUNDATION, Toronto, Canada
2012: Cartwheel Galaxy, Larissa Goldston, NY, NY
2011: Fell from the Same Tree (L&J), Y Gallery, NY, NY
2010: Flight of the Forgotten, Galeria Isabel Hurley, Malaga, Spain
2009: Overture to Whirl, Sunroom Project Space, WaveHill, Bronx, NY
INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE: RECENT & SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023:
To Fix the Object in Memory, SD Art Prize Exhibition, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
2022:
Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA
2021:
SD Practice, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
2020:
Illumination: 21st Century Interactions with Art+Science+Technology, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2019:
Axxon N: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE, Essex Flowers, NY, NY
2018:
Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo, Museum of Contemporary Art SD, San Deigo, CA
Connections: Visual Fellows of the Cape, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Bodies of a Different Mass, Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Call + Response, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2016
Twenty Sixteen in 2016, Smackmellon, NY, NY
2015
Sounds Like, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Sounds Like, Heron Art Gallery, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN
In Practice: Under Foundations, Sculpture Center, NY, NY
State Park, UCSD Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014
Cosmic Needs, Dossier Outpost, NY, NY
2013
Untitled Art Fair with Present Company, Miami, Fl
NY I Love You Sometimes, Classic Six, NY, NY,
Thunder Perfect Mind, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KT
2012
Miami Project Art Fair, Larissa Goldston Gallery, Miami, FL
First Truth, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Makeup on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston, NY, NY
2011
S-Files Biennial, El Museodel Barrio, NY, NY
No One is an Island,Governors Island, NY, NY
Site 92 III, Smack Mellon, NY, NY
2010
PINTA Art Fair, Y Gallery,NY, NY
Piles, 548 W. 28 St, NY, NY
I know what you did last summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Jack in the Space, Dean Project LIC, NY
Cityscape, SocratesSculpture Park, Queens, NY
Give Me The Night: Conversions, Fluorescent Sunshine (*w/ Tara Pelletier), BRAC, Bronx, NY
This World, Other World, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. VT
2009
The Magnificent Adventures of SweetBitter, Fluorescent Sunshine (*w/ Tara Pelletier), Skowhegan ME
Queens International IV, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
INDIVIDUAL RESIDENCIES
2017: Joan MItchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2016: CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2014: Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
LMCC Process Space, Governors Island, NY, NY
Lightwell Gallery Artist in Residence, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2010: LMCC Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan, NYC
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
2009: Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2008: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, Provincetown, MA
2007: Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
INDIVIDUAL GRANTS & AWARDS
2023: CA Arts Council Established Artist Fellowship
San Diego Art Prize Recipient
UCSD Hellman Fellowship
2016: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2011: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
NYFA Fellowship (Sculpture)
Jerome Foundation Travel Grant to West Papua
2010: Harpo Foundation Grant, VSC, Johnson, VT
2008: UAI Fellowship/ NYC, Queens Council on the Arts
Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island
2006: Hudson D. and Ione Walker Endowed Fellowship, FAWC
SELECTED RECENT PRESS:
HereIn Journal, 2021
https://www.hereinjournal.org/features/one-work-janelle-iglesias
Hyperallergic, 2018
https://hyperallergic.com/471547/being-here-with-you-estando-aqui-contigo-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego/
Artforum.com, 2018
https://www.artforum.com/picks/museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego-downtown-77504
Hyperallergic, 2016
http://hyperallergic.com/308556/from-the-archive-to-the-internet-an-artist-collects-and-connects-disparate-images/
BRIC-TV: Brooklyn is Masquerading As the World: Episode 6: Las Hermanas Iglesias, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw1WyyCwXc
Hyperallergic, 2015
http://hyperallergic.com/193249/stray-dogs-argentine-zines-and-subterranean-art-at-sculpturecenter/
Brooklyn Rail, 2015
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/03/artseen/in-practice-under-foundations
Huffington Post, 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/05/young-latina-artists_n_5538321.html
Audubon Blog, 2014
http://mag.audubon.org/articles/living/incredibly-elaborate-homes-bowerbirds-inspire-new-art-exhibit
Art in America. com: The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, 2012
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/janelle-iglesias/
BOMB BLOG: LAS HERMANAS INTERVIEW, 2012
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6379
Art in America. com:The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, 2011
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/the-lookout-11092011/
2013
Untitled Art Fair with Present Company, Miami, Fl
NY I Love You Sometimes, Classic Six, NY, NY,
Thunder Perfect Mind, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KT
2012
Miami Project Art Fair, Larissa Goldston Gallery, Miami, FL
First Truth, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Makeup on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston, NY, NY
2011
S-Files Biennial, El Museodel Barrio, NY, NY
No One is an Island,Governors Island, NY, NY
Site 92 III, Smack Mellon, NY, NY
2010
PINTA Art Fair, Y Gallery,NY, NY
Piles, 548 W. 28 St, NY, NY
I know what you did last summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Jack in the Space, Dean Project LIC, NY
Cityscape, SocratesSculpture Park, Queens, NY
Give Me The Night: Conversions, Fluorescent Sunshine (*w/ Tara Pelletier), BRAC, Bronx, NY
This World, Other World, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. VT
2009
The Magnificent Adventures of SweetBitter, Fluorescent Sunshine (*w/ Tara Pelletier), Skowhegan ME
Queens International IV, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
INDIVIDUAL RESIDENCIES
2017: Joan MItchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2016: CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2014: Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
LMCC Process Space, Governors Island, NY, NY
Lightwell Gallery Artist in Residence, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2010: LMCC Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan, NYC
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont
2009: Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2008: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, Provincetown, MA
2007: Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
INDIVIDUAL GRANTS & AWARDS
2023: CA Arts Council Established Artist Fellowship
San Diego Art Prize Recipient
UCSD Hellman Fellowship
2016: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2011: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
NYFA Fellowship (Sculpture)
Jerome Foundation Travel Grant to West Papua
2010: Harpo Foundation Grant, VSC, Johnson, VT
2008: UAI Fellowship/ NYC, Queens Council on the Arts
Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island
2006: Hudson D. and Ione Walker Endowed Fellowship, FAWC
SELECTED RECENT PRESS:
HereIn Journal, 2021
https://www.hereinjournal.org/features/one-work-janelle-iglesias
Hyperallergic, 2018
https://hyperallergic.com/471547/being-here-with-you-estando-aqui-contigo-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego/
Artforum.com, 2018
https://www.artforum.com/picks/museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego-downtown-77504
Hyperallergic, 2016
http://hyperallergic.com/308556/from-the-archive-to-the-internet-an-artist-collects-and-connects-disparate-images/
BRIC-TV: Brooklyn is Masquerading As the World: Episode 6: Las Hermanas Iglesias, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw1WyyCwXc
Hyperallergic, 2015
http://hyperallergic.com/193249/stray-dogs-argentine-zines-and-subterranean-art-at-sculpturecenter/
Brooklyn Rail, 2015
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/03/artseen/in-practice-under-foundations
Huffington Post, 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/05/young-latina-artists_n_5538321.html
Audubon Blog, 2014
http://mag.audubon.org/articles/living/incredibly-elaborate-homes-bowerbirds-inspire-new-art-exhibit
Art in America. com: The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, 2012
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/janelle-iglesias/
BOMB BLOG: LAS HERMANAS INTERVIEW, 2012
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6379
Art in America. com:The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, 2011
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/the-lookout-11092011/
