Ana Mendieta
Works
3/4 inch U-matic color video with sound
8'17''
Super-8mm black and white, silent film transferred to high-definition digital media
2'59"
Installation view, Source, 2020, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano
16mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
2'05"
Installation view, Source, 2020, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano
Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
3' 07"
Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
6'20"
Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
3' 12"
Super-8 mm transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
3'18''
Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
1'01"
Installation view, Ana Mendieta, 2016 Galleria raffaella Cortese, Milano
Installation view, Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin, 2023, MO.CO, Montpellier, France
Installation view, Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin, 2023, MO.CO, Montpellier, France
Biography
Born in Havana, Cuba, 1948. Died in New York, USA, 1985.
She is represented by Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2009.
Ana Mendieta, among the most celebrated Cuban artists, was originally trained as a painter: she soon turned to filmmaking and photography, and later drawing and sculpture, in her short yet extremely prolific career. She established an exceptional personal synthesis of Body and Land Art through the introduction of the human and female body in the landscape. The realization of ritual performances, translated through all her media, steep her own body into nature, thus emphasizing her physical and spiritual link with the Earth. She traveled and performed between Iowa and Mexico, revealing her interest in the earth as a site to address issues of displacement by recording the presence of her body—or the imprint it left behind—within different natural elements and environments.
Among the major solo shows dedicated to the Cuban-American artist: Ana Mendieta, En búsqueda del orígen, MUSAC, León, Spain (2024); Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin, Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (2024); Ana Mendieta. Search for Origin, MO.CO., Montpellier (2023); Ana Mendieta: Ochùn, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (2020); Ana Mendieta: Connecting to the Earth, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019); Earthbound, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp (2019); Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2016); NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, United States (2016); Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2017); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and Institute for Contemporary Art, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2018); Ana Mendieta: Alma, Silueta en Fuego, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Stati Uniti (2015); Traces, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London (2013); She Got Love, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2013); Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (2004); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines and Miami Art Museum, Miami (2004); Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) – Body Tracks, Neues Museum Luzern, Lucerne and Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2002); Ana Mendieta Selected Works, Kunst-Werke Berlin KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2002); Fundació Antoni Tápies, Barcelona (1997); Ana Mendieta, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (1996); Kusthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (1996); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (1996); Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (1996); Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (1996); Ana Mendieta: The Late Works, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland and Artothèque de Caen, Caen, France (1994).
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