Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Janelle & Lisa Iglesias, sisters born to Dominican and Norwegian immigrants in Queens, NY. Their identities and moniker’s origin are woven within contexts of feminism, collectivity, and familial relationships. For over 15 years, they've maintained a transmedia, genre-blurring collaboration alongside individual practices rooted in sculpture and drawing.
Their collaborative work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Abrons Art Center, ASU Art Museum, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, The Blanton Museum and the Anchorage Museum among others. Las Hermanas Iglesias has been artists in residence at LMCC’s Paris program in France, Fanoon: Center for Print Research at VCUQ in Qatar, The New Roots Foundation in Guatemala, and the Textile Arts Center and Stoneleaf Retreat in the U.S.
Currently they work together from opposite coasts–Janelle is an assistant professor of studio art at the University of California San Diego and Lisa Iglesias is an associate professor in the department of art at Mount Holyoke College.
At MacDowell, Lisa and Janelle created a series of life cast sculptures to be featured in a solo exhibition at the ICA San Diego in summer 2025. Their project continues a body of work exploring care-giving and reproductive justice exhibited at the Blanton Museum in Austin, TX, in 2023 and the Anchorage Museum in 2024.
