LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS > RESUME
LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS
b 1979, b 1980, Queens, New York
currently live and work in Western MA and Southern CA
EDUCATION
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2006 Masters of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2006 Masters of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2002 Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2001 Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Binghamton University, Johnson City, NY
SOLO/TWO PARTY EXHIBITIONS
2025: Las Hermanas Iglesias, ICA San Diego, CA (forthcoming)
2024: Las Hermanas Iglesias & Bodhild Iglesias, PULP, Holyoke, MA
2023: LOOSE LIPS, Material Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT
2022: Contemporary Project 11: Las Hermanas Iglesias, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2021: M(other) Tongues: Bodhild and Las Hermanas Iglesias, National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA
2019: Mirror Rim, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2018: SOMOS O NO SOMOS, Galeria Mamey, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Familen Iglesias: Loops at a Spool, Ortega Y Gasset, NY, NY
2017: Every Force Evolves a Form, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
RE:SISTERS, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
HERE, HERE, ACME Lab, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2016: Seesaw / Seasaw, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015: Collaborators, Comrades & Good Gompanions, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
NEVER ODD OR EVEN, Mulherin, NY, NY
2013: We are all so far away from the sun, waiting, NO Foundation, Toronto, CA
2011: Fell from the Same Tree, Y Gallery, NY, NY
Rival Rousing, Six_a Inc, Tasmania, Australia
2010: Drawn Together, MACLA, San Jose, CA, curated by Lisa Mari-Ramirez
Hairwork, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio
Aranda- Alvarado
2008: Hairwork, Pratt at MWP Institute, Utica, NY
2007: weft & warp, Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton University, Johnson City, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024:
Celebrating Our Quinceañerx, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Alejandra Mejía & Romina Schulz
2023:
HOW TO SURVIVE, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK curated by Francesca Du Brock
HOLDING PATTERN, Haus of Vovo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, curated by Tricky Walsh
Strangers to/in/of/…this world, SLSA 2023 conference - Alien, Neeb Plaza and Harry Wood Gallery/ASU School of Art, Tempe, AZ
The path guides the meaning, Rebecca Camacho Presents, SF, CA, curated by MacKenzie Stevens
ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California San Diego,
curated by Ceci Moss
2022:
8, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia, curated by Fuel and Lumber Company
Two Cultures, One Family, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, curated by Dr. Erika Abad
Establishing Our Own Art History: The Influence of Judy Chicago, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, curated by Courtney Uldrich
2021:
What Comes After, Online Exhibition through 601Artspace Curated by Sara Shaoul
We Speak Our Truth: Portraits of Mamahood, Chashama Gallery, NYC curated by Kate Fauvell
Vida, Muerte, Justicia (Life, Death, Justice), Ogden Contemporary Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, curated Jorge Rojas + María del Mar González-González.
MOTHER, George Mason University Gallery, Fairfax, VA, Co-Curators: Laurel Nakadate, Don Russell, and Lily Siegel
2020:
Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020, New Mexico State Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, Good News Gallery, High Springs, FL
Will You Be There?, SVA Gallery (remote), NY.NY
2019:
Lost/Found (Familien Iglesias) , TAC Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
BRIC Biennial, South Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2018:
PINTA Art Fair with Katherine Mulherin Gallery (Toronto, CA), Miami, FL
Won't Lovers Revolt Now, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2017:
Home Bodies, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
UPROOT, Smackmellon, Brooklyn, NY
2016:
Mestizo, (LH), Bullet Space, NY, NY
2015:
Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists, (Lisa & Janelle), Colby-Sawyer College, NH
My Brother is a Liar, 601 Artspace, New York, NY
2014:
Geometries of Intimacy, Abrons Art Center
Collective Show, Las Hermanas with Eyelevel BQE, Casa Maauad, MexicoCity
Y Que?, Las Hermanas , Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2013:
Pulse: Artists of the Americas, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Pop! To the Rescue, MACLA, San Jose, CA
Superreal, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
2012:
Duologues, Gallery 307, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
re/spond/re/peat, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Audra Wolowiec
2011:
Pixelating: Black in New Dimensions, MoCADA Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jabari Owens-Bailey, Zemen Kidane & Isissa Komada-John
Current Wave, 3rdEye(sol)ation, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Gretta Louw and Miatta Kawinzi
Two’s A Crowd: Las Hermanas & the TSPS*, Buzzer 30, Queens, NY, curated by Rob Maitra
S-Files Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella & Elvis Fuentes
Social Geography of Hair, Sheer Madness, North Adams, MA, curated by Izabel Galliera
Treemendous, Carriage House short term residency and gallery, Islip, New York, curated by Karen Shaw
2010:
Around the Way, Macy’s, NY, NY, organized by El Museo del Barrio and Macy’s, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Trinidad Frombella
Everybody Likes to Dance *, Taller Boricua, NY, NY, curated by Christine Licata
American Demonic, Davidson Contemporary, NY, NY, curated by Eve Biddle
Hairwork *, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Rompe Puesto, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, organized by Blanka Amezkua & Ronny Quevedo
2009:
Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, NY, NY curated by José Ruiz & Erin Sickler
BAC! 10.0 Pandora’s B. 2009, Traveling Exhibition, Galeria Isabel Hurley, Malaga, Spain, curated by Isabel Hurley
The Individual & The Family, P.P.O.W. Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Jose Ruiz
2008:
Fall Benefit (with Jin Kim), Maxon Mill, Wassaic, NY, curated by Eve Biddle & Bowie Zunino
In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space, EFA Project Space, NY, NY, Curator: Patterson Sims and Christa Erickson
Other, Other..., Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx NY, NY, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
2005:
Synthesis and Distribution, Pace University Galleries, NY, NY
Synthesis and Distribution, Choate House Gallery, Pleasantville, NY, curated by Will Pappenheimer, Ron Janowich and Merijn van der Heijden
Las Hermanas Iglesias: Collaborations *, The Atlantic Gallery, Gainesville, FL
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCIES
2024: MacDowell Fellowship, Petersborough, NH
2022: Inaugural Peggy Toomer Family Residency at Stoneleaf Retreat, Kingston, New York
2019: New Roots Foundation, Antigua, Guatemala
2018: Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
StoneLeaf Artist Residency, Kingston, New York
2017: Arizona State University Artist in Residence Program, Tempe, Arizona
Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research, VCUQ, Doha, Qatar
2010: 6a Residency Program, Hobart, Tasmania
2008: Cite Internaionale des Arts, LMCC Paris Program, Paris, France
COLLABORATIVE GRANTS
2010: Queens Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant
NALAC Individual Artist Grant
SELECTED PRESS
HereIn Journal: Cris Scorza on Las Hermanas Iglesias (2021)
https://www.hereinjournal.org/essays/cris-scorza-on-las-hermanas-iglesias
HYPERALLERGIC: Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art by Coco Picard (2020)
https://hyperallergic.com/556805/channeling-the-nuances-of-motherhood-into-art/?fbclid=IwAR3WZVPfVXKynnUs6hMRF5HqQMSnxIohBmUW8-LvAj5htzKqq5JFCVa3SiU
The Fold Magazine “20 Hispanic Artists You Should Follow Right Now” by Nora Gomez-Strauss (2019)
https://thefoldmag.com/arts-culture/20-hispanic-artists-you-should-follow-right-now?fbclid=IwAR2LdME9B-pG-muhmQr6T7vHrk5KHVau5bnXPdmq3sAC0QAZL6Atf7gvyyk
NY TIMES Bric Biennial feature (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/arts/design/new-york-art-galleries-what-to-see-right-now.html
AFROPUNK.com AT BRIC BIENNIAL, DIVERSITY IS NOT A TREND by Diana McClure (2019)
https://afropunk.com/2019/02/at-bric-biennial-diversity-is-not-a-trend/
BROOKLYN RAIL BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible” by Nina Wolpow (2019)
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/artseen/Bric-Biennial-Volume-III-The-Impossible-Possible?fbclid=IwAR2kE4zT_X4PzO0gsOkl0VgsBtYqHv6m2qPdr3KWvwuecox_1nUoi1YH9n0
Phoenix New Times Video Feature (2017)
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/video/artistic-sisters-install-an-exhibit-at-asu-Oe2XcjcC
BRIC TV: Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw1WyyCwXc
NUMBER INC: Article by Jordan Amirkhani, pg. 6 (2018)
http://www.numberinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/No-93.pdf
The Salt Lake Tribune: What’s in store for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reopening? Minimalist color and maximum fun (2017)
http://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/arts/2017/08/20/minimalist-color-and-maximum-fun-as-the-utah-museum-of-fine-arts-reopens/
HuffingtonPost.com: 13 Young Latina Artists Changing The Contemporary Art Landscape, (2014)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/05/young-latina-artists_n_5538321.html
A Blade of Grass.org: Artists and Audiences: How Can Artists Learn from the Public?, (2013)
http://www.abladeofgrass.org/2013/mar/21/artists-and-audiences/
BOMB Blog: Las Hermanas Iglesias interviewed by Martha Moldovan, (2012)
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6379
2013:
Pulse: Artists of the Americas, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Pop! To the Rescue, MACLA, San Jose, CA
Superreal, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
2012:
Duologues, Gallery 307, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
re/spond/re/peat, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Audra Wolowiec
2011:
Pixelating: Black in New Dimensions, MoCADA Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jabari Owens-Bailey, Zemen Kidane & Isissa Komada-John
Current Wave, 3rdEye(sol)ation, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Gretta Louw and Miatta Kawinzi
Two’s A Crowd: Las Hermanas & the TSPS*, Buzzer 30, Queens, NY, curated by Rob Maitra
S-Files Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella & Elvis Fuentes
Social Geography of Hair, Sheer Madness, North Adams, MA, curated by Izabel Galliera
Treemendous, Carriage House short term residency and gallery, Islip, New York, curated by Karen Shaw
2010:
Around the Way, Macy’s, NY, NY, organized by El Museo del Barrio and Macy’s, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Trinidad Frombella
Everybody Likes to Dance *, Taller Boricua, NY, NY, curated by Christine Licata
American Demonic, Davidson Contemporary, NY, NY, curated by Eve Biddle
Hairwork *, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Rompe Puesto, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, organized by Blanka Amezkua & Ronny Quevedo
2009:
Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, NY, NY curated by José Ruiz & Erin Sickler
BAC! 10.0 Pandora’s B. 2009, Traveling Exhibition, Galeria Isabel Hurley, Malaga, Spain, curated by Isabel Hurley
The Individual & The Family, P.P.O.W. Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Jose Ruiz
2008:
Fall Benefit (with Jin Kim), Maxon Mill, Wassaic, NY, curated by Eve Biddle & Bowie Zunino
In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space, EFA Project Space, NY, NY, Curator: Patterson Sims and Christa Erickson
Other, Other..., Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx NY, NY, curated by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
2005:
Synthesis and Distribution, Pace University Galleries, NY, NY
Synthesis and Distribution, Choate House Gallery, Pleasantville, NY, curated by Will Pappenheimer, Ron Janowich and Merijn van der Heijden
Las Hermanas Iglesias: Collaborations *, The Atlantic Gallery, Gainesville, FL
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCIES
2024: MacDowell Fellowship, Petersborough, NH
2022: Inaugural Peggy Toomer Family Residency at Stoneleaf Retreat, Kingston, New York
2019: New Roots Foundation, Antigua, Guatemala
2018: Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
StoneLeaf Artist Residency, Kingston, New York
2017: Arizona State University Artist in Residence Program, Tempe, Arizona
Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research, VCUQ, Doha, Qatar
2010: 6a Residency Program, Hobart, Tasmania
2008: Cite Internaionale des Arts, LMCC Paris Program, Paris, France
COLLABORATIVE GRANTS
2010: Queens Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant
NALAC Individual Artist Grant
SELECTED PRESS
HereIn Journal: Cris Scorza on Las Hermanas Iglesias (2021)
https://www.hereinjournal.org/essays/cris-scorza-on-las-hermanas-iglesias
HYPERALLERGIC: Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art by Coco Picard (2020)
https://hyperallergic.com/556805/channeling-the-nuances-of-motherhood-into-art/?fbclid=IwAR3WZVPfVXKynnUs6hMRF5HqQMSnxIohBmUW8-LvAj5htzKqq5JFCVa3SiU
The Fold Magazine “20 Hispanic Artists You Should Follow Right Now” by Nora Gomez-Strauss (2019)
https://thefoldmag.com/arts-culture/20-hispanic-artists-you-should-follow-right-now?fbclid=IwAR2LdME9B-pG-muhmQr6T7vHrk5KHVau5bnXPdmq3sAC0QAZL6Atf7gvyyk
NY TIMES Bric Biennial feature (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/arts/design/new-york-art-galleries-what-to-see-right-now.html
AFROPUNK.com AT BRIC BIENNIAL, DIVERSITY IS NOT A TREND by Diana McClure (2019)
https://afropunk.com/2019/02/at-bric-biennial-diversity-is-not-a-trend/
BROOKLYN RAIL BRIC Biennial: Volume III, “The Impossible Possible” by Nina Wolpow (2019)
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/artseen/Bric-Biennial-Volume-III-The-Impossible-Possible?fbclid=IwAR2kE4zT_X4PzO0gsOkl0VgsBtYqHv6m2qPdr3KWvwuecox_1nUoi1YH9n0
Phoenix New Times Video Feature (2017)
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/video/artistic-sisters-install-an-exhibit-at-asu-Oe2XcjcC
BRIC TV: Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNw1WyyCwXc
NUMBER INC: Article by Jordan Amirkhani, pg. 6 (2018)
http://www.numberinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/No-93.pdf
The Salt Lake Tribune: What’s in store for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reopening? Minimalist color and maximum fun (2017)
http://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/arts/2017/08/20/minimalist-color-and-maximum-fun-as-the-utah-museum-of-fine-arts-reopens/
HuffingtonPost.com: 13 Young Latina Artists Changing The Contemporary Art Landscape, (2014)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/05/young-latina-artists_n_5538321.html
A Blade of Grass.org: Artists and Audiences: How Can Artists Learn from the Public?, (2013)
http://www.abladeofgrass.org/2013/mar/21/artists-and-audiences/
BOMB Blog: Las Hermanas Iglesias interviewed by Martha Moldovan, (2012)
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6379
