Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta (b. 1948 in Havana, CU; d. 1985 in New York, US) was a prolific multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, photography, film/video, sculpture, and site-specific work. She is best known for her “earth-body” works, in which she used her own body to create silhouettes formed from natural materials such as earth, flowers and fire. Through these works, Mendieta explored themes of displacement informed by her experience living in exile from her home country, Cuba. Ana Mendieta’s work has been exhibited in important solo exhibitions and museum retrospectives, in venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES (2024); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo (2023); Baltimore Museum Of Art (2020); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2016); Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2013); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2013); Art Institute of Chicago (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2004); and the New Museum, New York (1987).
