Las Hermanas Iglesias
Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa & Janelle Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian immigrants in Queens, NY. The moniker anchors their identities within the contexts of feminism, teamwork, and multiplicity. For 20 years, they’ve maintained a mixed-media collaboration alongside our individual practices rooted in Drawing and Sculpture. Together, Las Hermanas Iglesias creates artworks that explore issues of hybridity, social participation, engage absurdity, and tie the personal to larger cultural systems.
Their 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, they’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). Their 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 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.