Cristina Iglesias

Iglesias was the first Spanish woman invited to exhibit her work at the Folkestone Triennial in 2011. She is the sister of Academy Award-nominated film composer Alberto Iglesias.

Cristina Iglesias studied at University of the Basque Country, Pratt Institute and Chelsea College of Art and Design. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is visual arts, installation art and art of sculpture. Work by Cristina Iglesias is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Distinctions recorded are Berliner Kunstpreis, National Award for Plastic Arts and honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense.

• Name — Cristina Iglesias • Born — 1956 • Birthplace — San Sebastián, Spain • Education — Universidad del País Vasco, Chelsea College of Art • Field — Installation art • Spouse — Juan Muñoz • Website — cristinaiglesias.com/

Iglesias was born in San Sebastián, Northern Spain in 1956. 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.

• Illustration — Umeå sculpture park/Sweden with 13 Resin and Bronze Powder Panels (2000) • Illustration — 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.

• Year — Gallery • 1991 — Kunsthalle Bern • 1994 — Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven • 1998 — Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York • 2003 — Irish Museum of Modern Art 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 • 2018 — Centro Botín, Santander, Spain

• 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 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo • 2005 — Big Bandat the Centre Pompidou in Paris • 2006 — SITE, Santa Fe • 2010 — Pacing Through Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery • 2011 — Folkestone Triennial

Cristina Iglesias is recorded as having studied at University of the Basque Country, Pratt Institute and Chelsea College of Art and Design. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.