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Estate of Ana Mendieta
1948-1985

Estate of Ana Mendieta 1948-1985

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  • For over thirty years, Galerie Lelong represented the Estate of Ana Mendieta. In a brief yet prolific career, Ana Mendieta®...

    Imágen de Yágul, 1973

    For over thirty years, Galerie Lelong represented the Estate of Ana Mendieta. 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. 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.

    Galerie Lelong was instrumental in the realization of a number of monographic exhibitions, including Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin (2023) 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. The groundbreaking 2014 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. 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.

     

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    • Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972

      Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972

  • Select Exhibitions

    • Ana Mendieta: La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks)
      Exhibitions

      Ana Mendieta: La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks)

      17 October - 16 November 2019 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Ana Mendieta: Experimental and Interactive Films
      Exhibitions

      Ana Mendieta: Experimental and Interactive Films

      5 February - 26 March 2016 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Ana Mendieta: Late Works: 1981-85
      Exhibitions

      Ana Mendieta: Late Works: 1981-85

      10 May - 22 June 2013 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972–1985
      Exhibitions

      Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972–1985

      28 October - 11 December 2010 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
    • Converge: Works by Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder, 1970-1980
      Exhibitions

      Converge: Works by Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder, 1970-1980

      31 January - 1 March 2008 Galerie Lelong Exhibitions
  • Publications

    • Ana Mendieta: La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks), Lucy Lippard, Anna Lovatt, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Gerardo Mosquera
      Publications

      Ana Mendieta: La tierra habla (The Earth Speaks)

      Lucy Lippard, Anna Lovatt, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Gerardo Mosquera
      Texts by Lucy Lippard, Anna Lovatt, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, and Gerardo Mosquera Published by Galerie Lelong & Co., New York ISBN: 978-0-967147-2-3 Hardcover catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Ana Mendieta: La...
    • Ana Mendieta: Blood & Fire, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Linda Montano, Nancy Princenthal, Mary Sabbatino
      Publications

      Ana Mendieta: Blood & Fire

      Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Linda Montano, Nancy Princenthal, Mary Sabbatino
      Published by Galerie Lelong ISBN: 9782868820976
    • Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta, Olga M. Viso
      Publications

      Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta

      Olga M. Viso
      Published by Prestel ISBN: 9783791339665
    • Ana Mendieta: The Silueta Series 1973-80, Mary Jane Jacob
      Publications

      Ana Mendieta: The Silueta Series 1973-80

      Mary Jane Jacob
      Published by Galerie Lelong, New York Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-077297 This catalog accompanies an exhibition from December 5, 1991 - January 11, 1992
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