Silueta Works in Mexico

Ana Mendieta

1973–77/1991

Pigmented inkjet prints

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Ana Mendieta (Born 1948 in Havana; died 1985 in New York) came to prominence in the 1970s for her fusion of performance, feminist, and land art. She used her own body in interaction with the landscape to make connections between nature and the femme body. Mendieta documented many of her performances in photographs and films. Despite an abbreviated career (she died in 1985 at the age of 36), she continues to be an influential artist within histories and contemporary practices of land art, feminist art, and performance. Mendieta came to the United States from Cuba as a teenager in 1961, in forced exile. This difficult cultural and fam