Estate of Ana Mendieta | Galerie Lelong

Imágen de Yágul, 1973

In a brief yet prolific career, Ana Mendieta® created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, earth/body works that she titled "siluetas," are fugitive and potent traces of the artist's inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.

Mendieta's work has been the subject of 56 monographic exhibitions, which include 16 major museum retrospectives. A forthcoming major solo exhibition will be on view at the Tate Modern, London, from July 2026 to January 2027. In 2023, the solo exhibition Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin which exhibited the artist's early paintings for the first time was held at MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain, France and traveled to MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain and Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Two bilingual catalogues in French and Spanish were published in accompaniment. The 2023 exhibition Ana Mendieta: Silhueta em Fogo at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil was accompanied by the artist's first Portuguese-English catalogue.
“My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that unite me to the Universe. It is a return to the maternal source.”

—Ana Mendieta
Untitled, 1980

The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong, catalogued and digitized the entirety of Mendieta’s moving image works, discovering that the artist remarkably made more than 100 in the ten-year period in which she worked in the medium. In 2014, the groundbreaking exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, was organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, and travelled to several institutions worldwide, including NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. The accompanying exhibition catalogue remains the most complete filmography of the artist's work and exclusive screenings of Mendieta's filmworks have continued to be held at institutions across Europe, Asia, and America. Ana Mendieta: Traces, was organized by the Hayward Gallery, England, in 2013, and travelled to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, and the Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic. Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985 was organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 2005 and travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; and Miami Art Museum, Florida.

Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in New York City in 1985.

All artist quotes and artwork images © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Galerie Lelong.

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