Ana Mendieta
Untitled, 1985
Wood and gunpowder
79 ¼ x 11 ½ x 3 in (201.3 x 29.2 x 7.6 cm)
© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Galerie Lelong
Exhibitions
Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, November 20, 1987 - January 24, 1988.Goldsworthy, Jaar, Long, Mendieta, Newman, von Rydingsvard, Galerie Lelong, New York, March 31 - May 22, 1993.
Ana Mendieta: The Late Sculpture, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, June 9 - August 14, 1994.
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, April 2 - May 19, 1996; Uppsala Kunst Museum, Uppsala, Sweden, June 4 - September 8, 1996; selected films traveled to the Living Art Reykjavik, Iceland, August 3 - 18, 1996, and to the Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, January 17 - April 7, 1997.
Ana Mendieta, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 23 - October 20, 1996; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, October 31, 1996 - January 5, 1997; Fundació Tápies, Barcelona, Spain, January 21 - March 30, 1997; Museo de Arte Contmporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico, October 28, 1999 - February 20, 2000; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, March 2- June 4, 2000.
Powder, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, February 18 - April 18, 1999.
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 30 - September 19, 2004; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, October 14, 2004 - January 2, 2005; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, February 25 - May 22, 2005; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, October 7, 2005 - January 15, 2006.
Ana Mendieta, Late Works: 1981-85, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York, May 10 - June 22, 2013.
Ana Mendieta: Traces, Hayward Gallery, London, September 24, 2013 - December 15, 2013; Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, October 2, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, France, June 3 - September 10, 2023.
Literature
Moure, Gloria, ed. Ana Mendieta. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafica, 1996. Illustrated p. 195.Viso, Olga M. Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985. Washington, D.C.: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Catze, 2004. Illustrated p. 119.
Rosenthal, Stephanie, ed., Ana Mendieta: Traces, London: Hayward Publishing, 2013. (Not illustrated, incorrect dims).