Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa & Janelle Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian parents, Bienvenido and Bodhild Iglesias, who immigrated to Queens, NY. The collective’s moniker anchors their identities within the contexts of feminism, teamwork, and multiplicity. For the past 15 years, the two have maintained a transdisciplinary, genre-blurring collaboration alongside their individual practices. Las Hermanas undertakes their collaboration while living on opposite coasts usually through formal and informal residencies and extended on-site collaborative installations. Their practice has evolved to include a number of team efforts and variations such as collaborations with their mother, Bodhild. These textile based works center matrilineal legacies, issues of care, and processes of translation. Through employing playful structures that respond to the community and geographical context of each project, Las Hermanas Iglesias creates artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity, and promote the benefits of working together.
The team’s collaborative work has been exhibited at the Blanton Museum, the Anchorage Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, Abrons Art Center, ASU Art Museum, NMSU Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and others. Las Hermanas has been artists in residence at Stoneleaf Retreat, LMCC’s Paris program (France), Fanoon: Center for Print Research at VCUQ (Qatar), The New Roots Foundation (Guatemala) and the Textile Arts Center (US). Their work has been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post and Bombmagazine.com and supported by the Queens Council for the Arts, NYFA, and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.
Janelle Iglesias is an Assistant Professor in the Studio Art Department at University of California San Diego.
Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa & Janelle Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian parents, Bienvenido and Bodhild Iglesias, who immigrated to Queens, NY. The collective’s moniker anchors their identities within the contexts of feminism, teamwork, and multiplicity. For the past 15 years, the two have maintained a transdisciplinary, genre-blurring collaboration alongside their individual practices. Las Hermanas undertakes their collaboration while living on opposite coasts usually through formal and informal residencies and extended on-site collaborative installations. Their practice has evolved to include a number of team efforts and variations such as collaborations with their mother, Bodhild. These textile based works center matrilineal legacies, issues of care, and processes of translation. Through employing playful structures that respond to the community and geographical context of each project, Las Hermanas Iglesias creates artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity, and promote the benefits of working together.
The team’s collaborative work has been exhibited at the Blanton Museum, the Anchorage Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, Abrons Art Center, ASU Art Museum, NMSU Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and others. Las Hermanas has been artists in residence at Stoneleaf Retreat, LMCC’s Paris program (France), Fanoon: Center for Print Research at VCUQ (Qatar), The New Roots Foundation (Guatemala) and the Textile Arts Center (US). Their work has been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post and Bombmagazine.com and supported by the Queens Council for the Arts, NYFA, and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.
Janelle Iglesias is an Assistant Professor in the Studio Art Department at University of California San Diego, Lisa Iglesias is an Associate Professor in the Art Studio Department at Mount Holyoke College.