Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1961, two years after Marxist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro overthrew the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
Early life and exile
Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba to a family prominent in the country's politics and society. At age 12, in order to escape Fidel Castro's regime, Ana and her 14-year-old sister Raquelin were sent to the United States by their parents. Through Operation Peter Pan, a collaborative program run by the US government and the Catholic Charities, Mendieta and her sister spent their first weeks in refugee camps before moving to several institutions and foster homes in Iowa. In 1966, Mendieta was reunited with her mother and younger brother; her father joined them in 1979, having spent 18 years in a political prison in Cuba for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
In this video I'm talking about body artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta was mostly known for her amazing Silueta Series in which she inserted her silhouette into the land in various ways.
In my series A Brief History of Female Artists, I talk about female artists who have been influential in our art history!
published: 09 Jun 2021
Ana Mendieta: Fuego De Tierra, 1987 | From the Vaults
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything,” wrote the artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), whose interdisciplinary practice often blurred the boundary between the manmade and the natural. Over her brief but prolific career, Mendieta created a rich body of work that fused her abiding interests in Afro-Cuban religious traditions and feminist thought with broader interrogations of humanity's relationship to the land. Released two years after the artist’s death, this compelling documentary tracks Mendieta’s life from her childhood in Cuba and tumultuous early years in the United States through her later success in New York and abroad. Produced and directed by Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Kate Horsfield, and Branda Miller, with photography by Dawoud Bey and M...
published: 23 Apr 2021
Hayward Gallery Exhibition Trailer: Ana Mendieta, Traces
EXHIBITION OPENS 24th September 2013
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ana_mendieta
Ana Mendieta: Traces. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
24 September -- 15 December 2013
This autumn The Hayward Gallery presents Ana Mendieta: Traces, the UK's first retrospective of one of the most significant yet under-acknowledged artists of the late 20th century. In addition to films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, an extensive research room with hundreds of photographic slides unique access to works Ana Mendieta could never show during her short life.
published: 23 Sep 2013
Who is Ana Mendieta?
Bowling Green State University: SPAN 5700 Exploring Latino/a and Latin American Culture through Service-Learning, December 2020
Thanks to El Sofía Quintero Cultural Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio
https://sqacc.org
published: 05 Dec 2020
Ana Mendieta: On the Body and Landscape (Interview Only)
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment, including land art, film, performance, intersectional feminism, and presciently foregrounding issues of identity, translocations, and ecology. Time-based media art curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum will then discuss her engagement with natural and social environments with Raquel Cecilia, Mendieta’s niece, Estate director and director of a documentary on the artist’s life, Rebel by Nature: The Life & Art of Ana Mendieta.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening a...
published: 13 Jan 2022
Raquel Cecilia Mendieta: The Films of Ana Mendieta
Annual Stanley and Pearl Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art
Raquel Cecilia Mendieta: The Films of Ana Mendieta
February 27, 2016
published: 11 Mar 2016
Ana mendieta, testimonios
published: 20 Oct 2021
Body, Blood, Earth, Soul —The Tragic Story of Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba and was sent to the United States at age 12 during the Cuban Revolution. During college, Mendieta developed an arresting style, experimenting with gendered forms and depicting sexual violence against women in her art. She is best known for her 'Earth-Body' works that delve into the relationship between the female body and landscape. After marrying a fellow artist, Carl Andre, in 1985, Mendieta died the same year after falling out of her New York City window after a supposed argument with her husband. Even in death, she echoed her art.
Visit the ARTDEX Blog to find out more!
https://www.artdex.com/blog/art-world/body-blood-earth-soul-the-tragic-story-of-ana-mendieta/
#ARTDEXblog #AnaMendieta #EarthBody #Silueta #CarlAndre #Cuba #feminism #nature #sc...
published: 18 Feb 2021
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In this video I'm talking about body artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta was mostly known for her amazing Silueta Series in which she inserted her silhouette into the...
In this video I'm talking about body artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta was mostly known for her amazing Silueta Series in which she inserted her silhouette into the land in various ways.
In my series A Brief History of Female Artists, I talk about female artists who have been influential in our art history!
In this video I'm talking about body artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta was mostly known for her amazing Silueta Series in which she inserted her silhouette into the land in various ways.
In my series A Brief History of Female Artists, I talk about female artists who have been influential in our art history!
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything,” wrote the artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), whose interdisciplinary pra...
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything,” wrote the artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), whose interdisciplinary practice often blurred the boundary between the manmade and the natural. Over her brief but prolific career, Mendieta created a rich body of work that fused her abiding interests in Afro-Cuban religious traditions and feminist thought with broader interrogations of humanity's relationship to the land. Released two years after the artist’s death, this compelling documentary tracks Mendieta’s life from her childhood in Cuba and tumultuous early years in the United States through her later success in New York and abroad. Produced and directed by Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Kate Horsfield, and Branda Miller, with photography by Dawoud Bey and Mary Beth Edelson.
As part of The Met’s 150th anniversary, each month in 2020 we released three to four films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive. The series will continue on a monthly basis through March 2022.
Learn more about Ana Mendieta’s works in The Met collection: https://bit.ly/3xeGRPI
Read more about the Video Data Bank: https://www.vdb.org/
Browse the entire film series: https://www.metmuseum.org/150/from-the-vaults
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1
#FromtheVaults #TheMet #FilmFridays #MetFilmArchive
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything,” wrote the artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), whose interdisciplinary practice often blurred the boundary between the manmade and the natural. Over her brief but prolific career, Mendieta created a rich body of work that fused her abiding interests in Afro-Cuban religious traditions and feminist thought with broader interrogations of humanity's relationship to the land. Released two years after the artist’s death, this compelling documentary tracks Mendieta’s life from her childhood in Cuba and tumultuous early years in the United States through her later success in New York and abroad. Produced and directed by Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Kate Horsfield, and Branda Miller, with photography by Dawoud Bey and Mary Beth Edelson.
As part of The Met’s 150th anniversary, each month in 2020 we released three to four films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive. The series will continue on a monthly basis through March 2022.
Learn more about Ana Mendieta’s works in The Met collection: https://bit.ly/3xeGRPI
Read more about the Video Data Bank: https://www.vdb.org/
Browse the entire film series: https://www.metmuseum.org/150/from-the-vaults
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1
#FromtheVaults #TheMet #FilmFridays #MetFilmArchive
EXHIBITION OPENS 24th September 2013
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ana_mendieta
Ana Mendieta: Traces. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
24 September -- 15 De...
EXHIBITION OPENS 24th September 2013
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ana_mendieta
Ana Mendieta: Traces. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
24 September -- 15 December 2013
This autumn The Hayward Gallery presents Ana Mendieta: Traces, the UK's first retrospective of one of the most significant yet under-acknowledged artists of the late 20th century. In addition to films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, an extensive research room with hundreds of photographic slides unique access to works Ana Mendieta could never show during her short life.
EXHIBITION OPENS 24th September 2013
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ana_mendieta
Ana Mendieta: Traces. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
24 September -- 15 December 2013
This autumn The Hayward Gallery presents Ana Mendieta: Traces, the UK's first retrospective of one of the most significant yet under-acknowledged artists of the late 20th century. In addition to films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, an extensive research room with hundreds of photographic slides unique access to works Ana Mendieta could never show during her short life.
Bowling Green State University: SPAN 5700 Exploring Latino/a and Latin American Culture through Service-Learning, December 2020
Thanks to El Sofía Quintero Cul...
Bowling Green State University: SPAN 5700 Exploring Latino/a and Latin American Culture through Service-Learning, December 2020
Thanks to El Sofía Quintero Cultural Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio
https://sqacc.org
Bowling Green State University: SPAN 5700 Exploring Latino/a and Latin American Culture through Service-Learning, December 2020
Thanks to El Sofía Quintero Cultural Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio
https://sqacc.org
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the ...
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment, including land art, film, performance, intersectional feminism, and presciently foregrounding issues of identity, translocations, and ecology. Time-based media art curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum will then discuss her engagement with natural and social environments with Raquel Cecilia, Mendieta’s niece, Estate director and director of a documentary on the artist’s life, Rebel by Nature: The Life & Art of Ana Mendieta.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timely topic during this global pandemic.
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment, including land art, film, performance, intersectional feminism, and presciently foregrounding issues of identity, translocations, and ecology. Time-based media art curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum will then discuss her engagement with natural and social environments with Raquel Cecilia, Mendieta’s niece, Estate director and director of a documentary on the artist’s life, Rebel by Nature: The Life & Art of Ana Mendieta.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timely topic during this global pandemic.
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba and was sent to the United States at age 12 during the Cuban Revolution. During college, Mendieta developed an arresting s...
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba and was sent to the United States at age 12 during the Cuban Revolution. During college, Mendieta developed an arresting style, experimenting with gendered forms and depicting sexual violence against women in her art. She is best known for her 'Earth-Body' works that delve into the relationship between the female body and landscape. After marrying a fellow artist, Carl Andre, in 1985, Mendieta died the same year after falling out of her New York City window after a supposed argument with her husband. Even in death, she echoed her art.
Visit the ARTDEX Blog to find out more!
https://www.artdex.com/blog/art-world/body-blood-earth-soul-the-tragic-story-of-ana-mendieta/
#ARTDEXblog #AnaMendieta #EarthBody #Silueta #CarlAndre #Cuba #feminism #nature #sculpture #performanceart #videoart
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba and was sent to the United States at age 12 during the Cuban Revolution. During college, Mendieta developed an arresting style, experimenting with gendered forms and depicting sexual violence against women in her art. She is best known for her 'Earth-Body' works that delve into the relationship between the female body and landscape. After marrying a fellow artist, Carl Andre, in 1985, Mendieta died the same year after falling out of her New York City window after a supposed argument with her husband. Even in death, she echoed her art.
Visit the ARTDEX Blog to find out more!
https://www.artdex.com/blog/art-world/body-blood-earth-soul-the-tragic-story-of-ana-mendieta/
#ARTDEXblog #AnaMendieta #EarthBody #Silueta #CarlAndre #Cuba #feminism #nature #sculpture #performanceart #videoart
In this video I'm talking about body artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta was mostly known for her amazing Silueta Series in which she inserted her silhouette into the land in various ways.
In my series A Brief History of Female Artists, I talk about female artists who have been influential in our art history!
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything,” wrote the artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), whose interdisciplinary practice often blurred the boundary between the manmade and the natural. Over her brief but prolific career, Mendieta created a rich body of work that fused her abiding interests in Afro-Cuban religious traditions and feminist thought with broader interrogations of humanity's relationship to the land. Released two years after the artist’s death, this compelling documentary tracks Mendieta’s life from her childhood in Cuba and tumultuous early years in the United States through her later success in New York and abroad. Produced and directed by Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Kate Horsfield, and Branda Miller, with photography by Dawoud Bey and Mary Beth Edelson.
As part of The Met’s 150th anniversary, each month in 2020 we released three to four films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive. The series will continue on a monthly basis through March 2022.
Learn more about Ana Mendieta’s works in The Met collection: https://bit.ly/3xeGRPI
Read more about the Video Data Bank: https://www.vdb.org/
Browse the entire film series: https://www.metmuseum.org/150/from-the-vaults
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1
#FromtheVaults #TheMet #FilmFridays #MetFilmArchive
EXHIBITION OPENS 24th September 2013
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ana_mendieta
Ana Mendieta: Traces. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
24 September -- 15 December 2013
This autumn The Hayward Gallery presents Ana Mendieta: Traces, the UK's first retrospective of one of the most significant yet under-acknowledged artists of the late 20th century. In addition to films, sculptures, photographs, drawings, personal writings and notebooks, an extensive research room with hundreds of photographic slides unique access to works Ana Mendieta could never show during her short life.
Bowling Green State University: SPAN 5700 Exploring Latino/a and Latin American Culture through Service-Learning, December 2020
Thanks to El Sofía Quintero Cultural Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio
https://sqacc.org
Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as among the most original and talented artists of the postwar era. She produced a stunning body of work that drew together the most important innovations of her moment, including land art, film, performance, intersectional feminism, and presciently foregrounding issues of identity, translocations, and ecology. Time-based media art curators at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum will then discuss her engagement with natural and social environments with Raquel Cecilia, Mendieta’s niece, Estate director and director of a documentary on the artist’s life, Rebel by Nature: The Life & Art of Ana Mendieta.
Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The first sequence of selected works reflect on interiority—a timely topic during this global pandemic.
Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba and was sent to the United States at age 12 during the Cuban Revolution. During college, Mendieta developed an arresting style, experimenting with gendered forms and depicting sexual violence against women in her art. She is best known for her 'Earth-Body' works that delve into the relationship between the female body and landscape. After marrying a fellow artist, Carl Andre, in 1985, Mendieta died the same year after falling out of her New York City window after a supposed argument with her husband. Even in death, she echoed her art.
Visit the ARTDEX Blog to find out more!
https://www.artdex.com/blog/art-world/body-blood-earth-soul-the-tragic-story-of-ana-mendieta/
#ARTDEXblog #AnaMendieta #EarthBody #Silueta #CarlAndre #Cuba #feminism #nature #sculpture #performanceart #videoart
Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1961, two years after Marxist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro overthrew the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
Early life and exile
Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba to a family prominent in the country's politics and society. At age 12, in order to escape Fidel Castro's regime, Ana and her 14-year-old sister Raquelin were sent to the United States by their parents. Through Operation Peter Pan, a collaborative program run by the US government and the Catholic Charities, Mendieta and her sister spent their first weeks in refugee camps before moving to several institutions and foster homes in Iowa. In 1966, Mendieta was reunited with her mother and younger brother; her father joined them in 1979, having spent 18 years in a political prison in Cuba for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
You think you could be one of them, you listen supposed the same shit. You think new clothes can change your life and that's enough to be a part of it. But there is something you've forgot or something you've misunderstood. It turns around about how you think, not round how you look. You're unminded, is it you in the mirror or someone else? You think we must respect you, respect you how you are. You foremost must respect each other, though he doesn't think like you and if you ain't got it yet, what it's all about, I have one thing that I must tell you: you suck, you suck! You're unminded, is it you in the mirror or someone else?
Courtesy of Christie's ... The auction set new records for Cuban artists Ana Mendieta and Félix González-Torres, including the $13.6 million sale of González-Torres’s museum-quality sculpture Untitled (America #3) to the Pola Museum in Japan ... .
Anita—loosely inspired by real-life Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta—is the rising star of the New York City art scene; that is, until she falls out of a window after a fight with her ...
Whitney Curatorial Fellow ScoutHutchinson organized the exhibition, which highlights lesser-known works from artists like Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ana Mendieta and Maren Hassinger ... The work is abstract, confusing and even uncomfortable ... 12 ... .
Meanwhile, the Rosa de la Cruz collection sale saw strong interest, with two Ana Mendieta works, Untitled ($27,720) and Untitled (BodyTracks) ($32,760), selling above their estimates.
The spring/summer 2025 mood.. Ten looks handmade in our Dover studio. Second-hand fabrics cast in Latex and silicone ... Hallucinogenic prints ... Horror and beauty and breathing and drowning ... Ana Mendieta’s Silhouettes series and John Divola’s Zuma series ... .
Christa Terry...Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter ... SelectedWorks from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.” The latter gives me space to hold forth about Ana Mendieta and the controversy surrounding her death and how Carl Andre was a piece of shit ... .
The exhibition offers an in-depth and layered meditation on remembering as a creative act and includes the work of artists using a variety of mediums, including Ana Mendieta, René Magritte, William Kentridge, and Do Ho Suh.
