Born in Donostia / San Sebastian, Cristina Iglesias contributes a renewed conception of the sculpture practice. Her search for poetic and symbolic compromise between works and space, is always materialised in an aesthetic, visual and dynamic display.

Her work is found in important public and private collections, like the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Museo de Serralves, Oporto; MOCA, Los Angeles; Hirshorn Museum, Washington; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao; MACBA, Barcelona; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle Bern, Berna; and Museo de Grenoble, among others.

She has made individual exhibitions in national and international museums like: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Palacio de Velázquez, MNCARS, Madrid; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao; Carré D’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes; Museo Serralves, Oporto; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Pinacoteca del Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Fundazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan; Museo Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Musée Grenoble, Grenoble, and Fundación Centro Botín, Santander.

In addition, she has exhibited in several galleries such as Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid; Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris; Marian Goodman London, London; Konrad Fisher Gallery, Berlin; y Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.