Discipline: Visual Art – mixed media

Lisa Iglesias

Discipline: Visual Art – mixed media
Region: South Hadley, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaborative team of Lisa & Janelle 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.

Studios

Firth

Lisa Iglesias worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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