Cristina Iglesias (born 1956) is a Spanish installation artist and sculptor living and working in

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, 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. She is the sister of

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-nominated film composer

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Early life and education

Iglesias was born in

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, Northern Spain in 1956. She commenced a degree in Chemical Sciences at

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in 1976 before out in 1978 to practise ceramics and drawing in

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. In 1980, she moved to London to study

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at the

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in London where she met her husband, Juan Muñoz and other artists such as

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Exhibitions

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

Group exhibitions

Awards

Iglesias was honoured with the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1999. She was also awarded the

Berliner Kunstpreis The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Art ...

in 2012.

References

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