Ana Mendieta

Born 1948, Havana, Cuba. Died 1985, New York.
Selected solo exhibitions
2005
Beyond the Performance: Ana Mendieta in the 1970s, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.
2004
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance, 1972–1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. and Miami Art Museum, Miami.
2002–03
Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), Body Tracks, Neues Kunst Museum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland. traveled to Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
2000
Ana Mendieta and Vito Acconci: A Relationship Study, 1969–1976, Galerie Lelong, New York.
1999
Ana Mendieta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico. traveled to Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City.
1996
Ana Mendieta, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago, Spain. traveled to Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf. and Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona.
1987
Ana Mendieta, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California. traveling through 2008 to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Primera generación: Arte e imagen en movimiento, 1963–1986, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
2005
Heroines: Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam.
2004
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960–1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Il Bello e le bestie, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Italy.
Gloria: Another Look At Feminist Art of the 1970s, White Columns, New York. traveled to The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
2003
Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.
Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 — 1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
2002
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949–1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. traveled to Museu de Art Contemporani de Barcelona. MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan.
1997
On Life, Beauty, Translations, and Other Difficulties, curated by Rosa Martinez, 5th International Istanbul Biennial.
1996
Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. and Center for Fine Arts, Miami.

The dramatic events of her own life: exile from her homeland, constantly moving to new areas, political speeches in the defense of the Cuban refugees, participation in the feminist movement- brought Anna Mendieta to a sharp denial of all forms of social limitations and moral taboos. Having destroyed the usual boundaries of the artistic, the artist appears in the epicenter of the ‘problematic’ spheres of culture. The themes of social and political lack of freedom and the subordinate position of women in traditional communities are transformed by the artist into plastic signs, using the language of her own body.

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