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ID: 500052055 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500052055			Record Type: Person

Mendieta, Ana (Cuban-American sculptor and performance artist, 1948-1985)

Note: Mendieta was born in Cuba but sent to America by her parents at age 13. She lived in foster homes and orphanages for the rest of her childhood. She received her MA in 1972 from the University of Iowa. In the 1970s, she began making 'earth-body sculptures,' employing primitive materials such as blood, earth, fire, and water. She documented her performances, which incorporated aspects of religion and magic, with photographs. In 1983, she went to Rome on an American Academy Fellowship. In 1985, her husband, the Minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, was charged with her death but acquitted.

Names:
	Mendieta, Ana (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Mendieta, Ana (Dutch-P,NA)
	Ana Mendieta (V,display)
	מנדייטה, אנה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Cuban

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	performance artist
	video artist
	photographer
	sculptor

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Havana (La Habana, Cuba) (inhabited place) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

	relocation:		in 1961 Iowa (United States) (state)
	active:		1978-1985 New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
	exhibition:		"Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," Hammer Museum, 15 September - 31 December Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Breder, Hans
................................	(American sculptor and painter, 1937-2017) [500086918]

colleague of ....	Zarina
......................	(Indian printmaker and sculptor, 1937-2020) [500074010]

spouse of ....	Andre, Carl 1975-1985
................	(American sculptor, 1935-2024) [500011651]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Mendieta, Ana (I)

Biographies:

(Cuban-American sculptor and performance artist, 1948-1985) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American sculptor, photographer, 1948-1985) ..... [BHA]
(sculptor, 1948-1985) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Cuban performance artist, 1948-1985) ..... [AVERY]
(American sculptor, 1948-1985) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1948-1985) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Cuban artist, 1948-1985) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist of Cuban birth, 1948-1985) ..... [NMWA]
(American artist, born Cuba. 1948-1985) ..... [MoMA]
(Cuban sculptor, 1948-1985) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

מנדייטה, אנה ........	[IMJ]
........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Ana Mendieta ........	[CL-Courtauld, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Mendieta, Ana ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002)
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 88058979
............................	National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
............................	NMWA database (2018-)
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 55203
............................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP]
	..........	Art Index via Wilson Web, Dec.29, 2000
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 19 August 2002

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