LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS

b 1979

b 1980

Queens, New York

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
2023:    LOOSE LIPS, Material Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT
2022:    Las Hermanas Iglesias, Contemporary Project Space, 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 
2023: 
HOW TO SURVIVE, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK curated by Francesca Du Brock
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
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