Cristina Iglesias

Cristina Iglesias (born 1956) is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in Torrelodones, Madrid. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw. On January 20, 2016, she was awarded the Tambor del Oro in San Sebastian. Iglesias was the first Spanish woman invited to exhibit her work at the Folkestone Triennial in 2011.^[1] She is the sister of Academy Award-nominated film composer Alberto Iglesias.^[2][3]

Cristina Iglesias
Born	1956 (age 67–68) San Sebastián, Spain
Known for	Installation art
Spouse	Juan Muñoz
Website	cristinaiglesias.com

Early life and education

Iglesias was born in San Sebastián, Northern Spain in 1956.^[4][5] She commenced a degree in Chemical Sciences at Universidad del País Vasco in 1976 before out in 1978 to practise ceramics and drawing in Barcelona. In 1980, she moved to London to study Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art in London where she met her husband, Juan Muñoz and other artists such as Anish Kapoor.^[6]

Exhibitions

Umeå sculpture park/Sweden with 13 Resin and Bronze Powder Panels (2000)

Deep Fountain by Cristina Iglesias, 2009

Iglesias began exhibiting in the 1980s and has since taken part in over 60 individual and group exhibitions in Europe, North America and Japan.

Solo exhibitions

Year	Gallery
1991	Kunsthalle Bern[7]
1994	Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven
1998	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York
2003	Irish Museum of Modern Art[8] in Dublin
2006	Museum Ludwig in Cologne
2007	Instituto Cervantes in Paris
2007	Doors to the new wing of the Museo del Prado, Madrid
2016	Musée de Grenoble in Grenoble

Group exhibitions

Year	Show
1986	Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale
1993	Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale
1990	18th Sydney Biennale
2000	Carnegie International, Museum of Art Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
2000	Exposición Universal in Hannover
2002	Happiness[9] at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo
2005	Big Bandat the Centre Pompidou in Paris
2006	SITE, Santa Fe
2010	Pacing Through Architecture,[10] Whitechapel Gallery
2011	Folkestone Triennial

Awards

Iglesias was honoured with the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1999.^[11] She was also awarded the Berliner Kunstpreis in 2012.

References

1. "Cristina Iglesias, primera española en la Trienal Folkestone". Europa Press. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
2. "'He made the world larger'". The Guardian. 2 September 2001. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
3. "Juan Munoz". The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2001. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
4. "Cristina Iglesias". Guggenheim. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
5. Great women artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 197. ISBN 0714878774.
6. "Cristina Iglesias: agua, acero y seda". El País (in Spanish). 31 July 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
7. "Kunsthalle Bern". www.kunsthalle-bern.ch. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
8. "Cristina Iglesias at the Irish Museum of Modern Art". www.imma.ie. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
9. "MORI ART MUSEUM [HAPPINESS]". www.mori.art.museum. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
10. "Robbrecht and Daem: Pacing Through Architecture - Whitechapel Gallery". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
11. Samaniego, Fernando (11 December 1999). "Pablo Palazuelo y Cristina Iglesias comparten el premio nacional de Artes Plásticas" [Pablo Palazuelo and Cristina Iglesias Share the National Award for Plastic Arts]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 21 June 2019.