Ana Mendieta
Ocean Bird (Washup), 1974
Super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent
Running time: 4:09 minutes
Edition of 6 plus 3 AP
© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.
Exhibitions
Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, November 20, 1987 - January 24, 1998; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, 1988; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, 1990. (*Screened as part of a compilation.)Vito Acconci and Ana Mendieta: A Relationship Study 1969-1976, Galerie Lelong, New York, January 18 - March 3, 2001.
Aquaria, Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Austria, February 6 - April 7, 2002. Traveled to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Austria.
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) - Body Tracks, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, October 19, 2002 - February 23, 2003; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, March 29 - July 27, 2003.
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 28, 2002 - January 21, 2003.
Converge: Works by Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder, 1970-1980, Galerie Lelong, New York, January 31 - March 1, 2008.
Taboo, The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, November 16 - March 24, 2012.
re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October 2011 - January 2012; Galerija Miroslav Kralijvic, Zagreb, Croatia, March 2012; Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland, April 2012; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, June - August, 2012; Tallinna Kustihoone, Estonia, September 2012; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain, October - December 2012; Akademie der Künst, Berlin, Germany, June - July 2013.
Ana Mendieta. She Got Love. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, January 29, 2013 - May 5, 2013.
Aquatopia: The imaginary of the ocean deep, Nottingham Contemporary, 20 July – 22 September 2013; Tate St Ives, 12 October 2013 – 18 January 2014.
Ana Mendieta: Traces, Hayward Gallery, London, September 24, 2013 - December 15, 2013; Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014.
ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion, Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, August 1 - November 14, 2014.
A Tale of Two Worlds. A Dialogue between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art, 1940's-1980's, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany, November 24,2017-April 15, 2018 and MAMBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina July 7, 2018-October 14,2018
Thessaloniki Biennale: 6, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018
Video Pioneers, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January 9, 2018-August 22, 2018.
La tercera persona (The Third Person), Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano, Morelos, Mexico, November 17, 2018 - April 21st, 2019.
Sleeping with a tiger, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, Greece, August 7 - September 20, 2020.
By the Sea - Land Art am Wasser, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, July 23 - October 10, 2021.
Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, France, June 3 - September 10, 2023; MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, January 27 - May 19, 2024.
Ana Mendieta Silhueta em Fogo (Ana Mendieta: Silueta en Fuego), SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, September 19, 2023 - January 21, 2024.
Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, October 18, 2023 - March 31, 2024.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona, Casa Gomis (El Prat), Barcelona, September 3 - November 24, 2024.
Screening: Avant-garde Film in the Garden, Todolí Citrus Fundació, Palmera, Valencia, September 6, 2024 and Hotel Montsant, Xátiva, Valencia, September 7, 2024.
Projections #16: Blood, fire, feathers. The films of Ana Mendieta, screeining at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September 21, 2024.