LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS : ABOUT

THIS SITE FEATURES PROJECTS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL STUDIOS OF LISA + JANELLE IGLESIAS
& LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS, OUR COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK

Lisa and Janelle Iglesias are artists, educators, and sisters who have maintained individual
practices rooted in sculpture, painting, and drawing alongside a project based collaboration since 2005. Our moniker, Las Hermanas Iglesias, speaks to our identity as woven into histories and philosophies of feminism, multiplicity, and collaboration. As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, NYC, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities.

Our collaborative work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum,
Abrons Art Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, New Mexico State University Art Museum , The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Anchorage Museum among other institutions. As a team, we’ve been artists in residence at LMCC’s Paris program (France), Fanoon: Center for Print Research at VCUQ (Qatar), The New Roots Foundation (Guatemala), the Textile Arts Center (NY), Stoneleaf Retreat (NY), and MacDowell (NH). Our work has been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Bombmagazine.com, and supported by the Queens Council for the Arts, NYFA, and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.

LISA (she, they) is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art Studio at Mount Holyoke College. Her projects incorporate expansive histories and potentials of drawing and painting, take into consideration the translation of patterns, images and gestures across materials, and reflect her role as a caregiver. Her work has been supported by NYFA and residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, among others. Lisa divides her time between Western Mass and Queens, NY.

JANELLE (she, they) is an Assistant Professor of Studio in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and works on site-responsive projects in a variety of contexts. Central to her work are the poetics, politics, and entanglements of discourse that objects and materials hold space for. An alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, her work has been supported by the Joan Mitchell, Pollock-Krasner and Jerome Foundation- through which Janelle conducted research on bowerbirds in the rainforests of West Papua.

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