“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

Ana Mendieta® was an interdisciplinary artist, referring to herself as a sculptor. She is best known for her earth/body works, most specifically her now iconic Silueta Series, in which she used her body, and later the absence of the body, in the landscape as a way of connecting with nature and the universe. Spanning a period of 15 years, Mendieta created groundbreaking work in sculpture, photography, film, drawing and site-specific installations using organic materials such as earth, water and fire. Her pioneering works are in more than 120 public institutions and museums worldwide and continues to be influential today.

Ana Mendieta’s innovative work has been the subject of over 55 solo museum exhibitions. There have been 15 monographs published to date.

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