CV
Born 1948, Havana, Cuba
Died 1985, New York, New York
Education
MA, University of Iowa, 1972
MFA, University of Iowa, 1977
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Contemporary Art, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2017 Ana Mendieta: Silueta Sangrieta, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Ana Mendieta: Thinking About Children’s Thinking, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, New York
Siluetas de Alma (Soul Silhouettes) - 6th Thessaloniki Biennale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Metamorphosis, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
2016 Ana Mendieta: Alma, Silueta en Fuego, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Ana Mendieta: Siluetas, CONTACT Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ana Mendieta, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Ana Mendieta: Experimental and Interactive Films, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
2015 Ana Mendieta: Alma, Silueta en Fuego, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2014 Ana Mendieta, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Ana Mendieta: Traces, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Ana Mendieta: Late Works 1980-1985, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Ana Mendieta: She Got Love, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Ana Mendieta in Exile: The Silueta Films, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2011 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ana Mendieta: Blood and Fire, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2010 Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972-1985, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Where is Ana Mendieta? Donde esta Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later – An Exhibition and Symposium, Fales Library, New York University, New York, New York
Silueta and Silence, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
2009 People Looking at Blood, Moffitt, Signal Contemporary Art Center, Malmö, Sweden
2008 Converge: Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder 1970-1980, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2005 Beyond the Performance: Ana Mendieta in the 1970’s, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Heroines: Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Film Works and Drawings 1974 - 1985, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, California
2002 Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985) – Body Tracks, Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Ana Mendieta: Selected Works, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2001 Ana Mendieta and Vito Acconci: A Relationship Study 1969-1976, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2000 Performance works, Siluetas, Drawings, and Objects, Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland
1999 Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramovic: Rest/energy, Galerie Lelong, New York, in collaboration with Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Selected Works, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
1998 Transformations (1972-1973), Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, California
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Ana Mendieta: Siluetas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1997 Body Imprints and Transformations, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Elba Benitez Galeria, Madrid, Spain
1996 Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Ana Mendieta, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Fundació Antoni Tápies, Barcelona, Spain; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Ana Mendieta: photo etchings, photographs, & works on paper, Elizabeth Newman: collotypes & constructions, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1995 Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Galeria DV, San Sebastian, Spain
1994 Ana Mendieta: Burial of the Nanigo, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Ana Mendieta: The Late Works, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Artothèque de Caen, France
Lineas, 1980-1983, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1993 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Ile de Vassivière, France
1992 Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 Ana Mendieta: The Silueta Series, Galerie Lelong, New York; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
1990 Aspen Arts Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, New York
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, California
1988 Terne Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective, New Museum, New York, New York
1985 Gallery AAM, Rome, Italy
1984 Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
1983 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
1982 Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
The University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Yvonne Seguy Gallery, New York, New York
1981 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
2 Projects in Earth, Kean College of New Jersey, Union, New Jersey
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, São Paolo, Brazil
1979 Silueta Series, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Corroboree: Gallery of New Concepts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1976 112 Greene Street, New York, New York
1971 Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Group Exhibitions
2018 Laid Bare in the Landscape, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
I SEE YOU, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
A Tradition of Revolution, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York, New York
We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Einstein as a method, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Poland
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; ICA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Matter of Photography: Experiments in Latin American Art Since the 60s, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Force and Form, De la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida
The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York
2017 Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
We Are Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
What Absence is Made Of, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Journeys with the Waste Land, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Entering the Landscape, Plug in Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
ON/OFF, Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba
Naturaleza: Refugio y recurso del hombre, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Imaginary Ancestors, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, New York
14th Annual Iowa City IDOCS Film Festival, FilmScene, Iowa City, Iowa
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Poetry in Motion, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong
A pied d'oeuvre(s), Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Rose Video 10, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska; Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, California
SoixanteDixSept Experiment, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontrault-Combault, France
Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, New York
The Making of the National Art: Indigenismos, 1800-2015, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Rose Video 10, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Anu Põder. Be Fragile! Be Brave!, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Intersectional Self, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
Delirious, Metropolitan Breuer, New York, New York
Faces, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Cample Line, Cample Mill, United Kingdom
2016 TODO ABIERTO, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Verboamerica, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
COL·ECCIÓ PERMANENT, Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Fragile Body – Material Body, III Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora (European Cultural Centre), Venice, Italy
Pink Powder, Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Feminist Avantgarde of the 1970s: Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, Nova Southeastern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
CUBA. Tatuare La Storia, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Ensemble sin órganos, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
The Making of the Modern: Indigenismos, 1800-2015, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California; Museum of National Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Pink Powder, NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Dépenses, Lab Labanque, Bethune, France
Ecce Homo/Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
XVI WOMAN BIENNIAL – BIENNALE DONNA 2016, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Sublime. The Tremors of the World, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Like a Rolling Stone, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Transhumance, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2015 We loved it so much, the revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
Archive Bound: Strategies of Conceptual, Performance and Site-Specific Art, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
The ODC Theater Present Amara Tabor-Smith EarthBodyHOME, ODC Theater, San Francisco, California
The Great Mother, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Phlogistan, The Museum of Fine Artsm Split, Croatia
La vida es esto, Domus Atrium, Salamanca, Spain
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Wanderlust, UBArt Galleries, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York
Passage, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, New York
Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Cuba — Ficción y fantasia Daros Latinamerica, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Trio: Nalini Malani - Ana Mendieta - Nancy Spero, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Self-Timer Stories, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Cuba Libre!: Works from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Flying over the Abyss, Neon, Athens, Greece
natural affairs, QuadrArt, Dornbirn, Germany
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy, New York, New York
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
Mein Körper ist das Ereignis - Wiener Aktionismus und internationale Performance, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
En cuerpo y alma. Mujeres artistas de los siglos XX y XXI, Sala kubo-kutxa, San Sebastián, Spain
Feministiche Avant Garde der 1970er Jahre, Hambueger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
de-FORMATIONS, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York
Arqueologías de destrucción 1958-2014, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
What Comes After a Sudden Death, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Rastros y Vestigios, organized by Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico
The Untold Want, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2014 artevida: a City wide contemporary art exhibition: artevida (corpo), Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Other sections: artevida (política), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; artevida (arquivo), Biblioteca Parque Estadual, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; artevida (parque), Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Permission to be Global, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Ella Cisneros Fontanals Collection CIFO, Miami, Florida
WOMAN. Internationellt Feministiskt Avantgarde Från 1970-Talet, Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Schweden
La Bienal de Arte Paiz, Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Corpus, Zachęta, National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
ART Farenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion, Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama, Japan
Transperformance 3 – Corpo Estranho, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
WOMAN. The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Becoming Male, Freedman Gallery, Center for the Arts, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
lens-based sculpture. The Transformation of Sculpture through Photography, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
La Disparition des Lucioles (The Disappearance of the Fireflies), Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
One Another: Spiderlike, I Spin Mirrors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Transformations, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany
In Order to join - Political in a Historical Moment, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Aquatopia: The imaginary of the ocean deep, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England; Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, England
2013 The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, Connecticut
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Making Space: 40 Ans D’art Vidéo, Museé cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Americana: Overview Gallery, Purchasing Power, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Summer Exposure, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Body I Am, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England
Female Power, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York
Skin Trade: An In-Depth Look at the Surface of Things, PPOW Gallery, New York, New York
Ground: Materiality No.2 (Earth), Soro Kunstmuseum, Soro, Denmark
Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967 – 1978, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, CUNY Hunter College, New York, New York
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, The Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2012 Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.
Explosion! The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Penssylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, California
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales | Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, London, England
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York; Studio Museum Harlem, New York, New York
Mind-Scapes, La CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Das Atelier. Orte Der Produktion, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Animism, e-flux, New York, New York
The Politics of Place: Latin American Photography, Past and Present, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
DAY FOR NIGHT: Between Reality and Illusion, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York
Who More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Don’t Mess with the Saints, William Patterson University Galleries, Wayne, New Jersey
2011 Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami Florida
re.act.feminism #2: a performing archive, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Victora-Gasteiz, Spain
Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Contemporary Galleries: 1980 – Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Galería Kurimanzutto, San Miguel Chapultepec, México
History Lessons, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria
The Personal is Political: Women Artists from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Animismus: Moderne hinter den Spiegeln, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Surreal/Subjective: Recent Photographic Gifts From Alumni, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
TRA: The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Dirty Pictures, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works From the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010, Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2010 Electric Nights, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
Modelos Para Armar, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Expanded Horizon, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
What Are Clouds? Works from the Enea Righi Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy
Crossing, Paço das Artes, São Paolo, Brazil
Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Traveling Show, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
No Barrier Fun, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, New York
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1939 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Other Than Beauty, Friedman Benda, New York, New York
MODEL KITS. Thinking Latin America from the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Collection Display: Level 5, Energy and Process, Tate Modern, London, England
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York
Territories of Desire: Surfaces of Desire, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico, D.F.
Donna: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome, Italy
Che cosa sono le nuvole? Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2009 Elles: Women Artists in the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle ; Centro Cultural Bando do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro ; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte.
Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Of People and Places: Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sin Centenario Ni Bicentenario: Revoluciones Alternas, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Harsh Terrain, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
She is a Femme Fatale, Museu Colecção Berardo - Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
Action <> Reaction: Video Installations, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Flower Power, Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Verbania, Italy
Las Americas Latinas. Las fatigas del querer, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Performer, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Lest We Forget: The Voice of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
A Mancha Humana / The Human Stain, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Cultuursite Mechelen, Belgium; organized by the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Hundred Stories About Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today, Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands
Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969–2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
2008 Burning Down the House: Building A Feminist Art Collection, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
re.act.feminism: performance art of the 1960’s and 70’s today, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Mexico: Expected / Unexpected: Collection Isabel et Agustín Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain; Stedelijk Museum Scheidam, Scheidam, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; American University at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Paths of Desire, St. Ambrose University Catich Gallery, Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport, Iowa
Cancelled, Erased & Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Comme des bêtes: Ours, chat, cochon & cie, Le Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Beard Gallery and Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Pop to the Present: New Questions, New Responses, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Cuba! Artists Experience Their Country, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
Sculptural Concepts, Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2007 LAB.07: Arte, Deshonra y Violencia en el Contexto Iberoamericano, Centro Cultural de España Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Fortunate Objects: An Exploration of the Everyday in Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Performance on Demand, Electronic Arts Intermix Viewing Room at EFA Gallery, New York, New York
Plano Intimo, n/2: Nuevos Medios, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain
Live Art on Camera, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Death & Love in Modern Times, Dinter Fine Art, New York, New York
The Naked Portrait, Portrait Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
A Batalla Dos Xéneros [Gender Battle], Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
New York States of Mind, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
AGENTS of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
Conceptual Photography: 1964-1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York
Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
En Primeira Persoa: Relacións do Suxeito na Intimidade, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Luz ao Sul, Convento del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
Out of Body, Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York
Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, Moscow, Russia
Speed #1, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Cómo Vivar Juntas: Selección 27° Bienal de Sao Paulo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Wrestle, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2006 A Curator’s Eye: the Visual Legacy of Robery A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Drawn Into the World: Drawings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Hair Die, A/V, Rochester, New York
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; MACRO Future, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Notations: Energy Yes!, Philadephia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Primera generación: Arte e imagen en movimiento [1963-1986], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
The Gesture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloníki, Greece
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
2005 Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom; New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, New York
Indeterminate States: Video from the Cisneros Fontanals Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
Points of View: Landscape and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
SlideShow, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The World is a Safer Place: A Survey of Nonconformist Art, Globe City Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
2004 Inaugural Exhibit in the Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
After Image, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
I Am the Walrus, Cheim and Reid, New York, New York
Il Bello e le bestie, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Trento, Italy
Paisaje & Memoria [Landscape & Memory], Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Vegueta, Spain
Photo Exhibit, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
Artists’ Choice: Mona Hatoum, ‘Here is Elsewhere’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
After Image, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 – 1982, Walker Art Center; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
M_ARS: Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Germany
Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2002 1968 - 1977, l'Art en Cause, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Gloria: Another Look At Feminist Art of the 1970s, White Columns, New York, New York; The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
2001 Burn: Artists Play with Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Echoes of the Scream, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark; Munch-Musset, Oslo, Norway
El Instante Eterno: Art and Spirituality at the Change of Millennium, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain
Il Dono, offerta ospitalita insidia, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Minimalism Past And Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
New York ca. 1975, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Afro-Cuba, ‘Woman’ and History in the Works of Ana Mendieta, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Marta María Pérez Bravo, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Good Business Is the Best Art: Twenty Years of the Artists in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthall, Hamburg, Germany
Mennesket – Et halvt arhundrede set gennem kroppem (MAN – Body in art from 1950 to 2000), Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London, England
Postmedia: Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Sabine Kunst Gallery, Munich, Germany
Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Culture, Exit Art, New York, New York
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida
The Wounded Diva, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Vanitas Personae: An Exploration of Self and Other Related Characters, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Vivências (Life Experiences), Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1999 Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Earthworks on Paper, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
Impact: Revealing sources For Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, New York
Lie of the Land, earth.body.material, John Hansard Gallery, University of South Hampton, Highfield, Southampton, England
Natural Reality, The Ludwig Forum, Cologne, Germany
Nature Is Not Romantic, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
Powder: The Myth of Mortality, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado
Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Regarding BEAUTY in Performance and the Media Arts, 1960-1999, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C
Skin-Deep, Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1998 25 Years of A.I.R.: The First Women Artists Cooperative in America, Kingsborough Community College, Art Gallary of the City University of New York, New York
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Bilan/Actualité 1991-1998, Centre d’art Contemporain de Vassiviere, Limousin, France
Desde el cuerpo: alegorias de lo femenino (From the Body: Feminine Allegories), Fundacion Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Etre Nature, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, Connecticut
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Jardin d’Artiste: de mémoire d’arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation, List Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Museu de Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Play Mode, The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California
Space/Sight/Self, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennial: Alternating Currents, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Body: Expression/Impression, Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5th International Istanbul Biennial: On Life, Beauty, Translations, and Other Difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
Amours, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Body, The Art Gallery at New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art's Cuban Selection, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
Steirischer herbst 97, Graz, Germany
Tarentella, PS 122, New York, New York
1996 20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania
Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Bodyscape, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Collective Soul: Ana Mendieta, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Valeska Soares, Galeria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Cuba Siglo XX: Modernidad y Sincretismo, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Fundació La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Centro d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Divine Flesh: Contemporary Goddess Imagery, Artopia, New York, New York
Multiple Identity: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration, Streirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria
Inside the Visible: an Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art In, Of, and From the Feminine, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington, DC; the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975-Now, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, New York; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
More than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the '70s, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Refiguring Nature: Women in the Landscape, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
Sin Fronteras-Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1995 Artists Talk Back: Visual Conversations with El Museo – Part III: Reaffirming Spirituality, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
100 Greene Street, New York, New York
A Selected Survey, 1983 - 1995, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, New York
Being Human: Lucina Freud, Ann Hamilton, Lilian Hsu-Flanders, Dennis Kardon, Sol LeWitt, Ana Mendieta, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Rabb Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Fact and Fiction: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
Faith Hope Love Death, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Féminin-Masculin: Le sexe de l'art, Musée national d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
Sniper's Nest: Art that has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1994 A Sense of Place, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
American Voices: Latino Photography in the U.S., FotoFest, Houston, Texas
Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object. A Survey of Performance Art in the USA since 1950, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Contemporary Latin American Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Transcending the Borders of Memory: Maria Brito, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Maria Martinez-Canas, Ana Mendieta, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Visceral Responses, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
XI Mostra da Gravura Icode de Curitiba, Fundacao Cultural de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
1993 1920, Exit Art, New York, New York
Body Parts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Beyond Boundaries: Art of the Sixties and Seventies, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Differentes Natures, Visions de l'Art Contemporain, Galerie Art 4 and Galerie de l’Esplanade, Place de la Défense, Paris; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York
Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany; Estacio Plaza de Armas, Sevilla, Spain; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; Hotel des Arts, Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris, France
Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections – Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, William and Phyllis Mack, Martin Z. Margulies, Ruth and Marvin Sackner, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
The Subject of Rape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1992 Americas, The Convent of Santa Clara, Seville, Spain, Il Biennale Barro de America, Caracas, Venezuela
AnteAmerica, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
Ver America, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
1991 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
Cuba-USA: The First Generation, Fondo Del Sol Visual Art and Media Center, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Museum [now the Orange County Museum of Art], Newport Beach, California
El Corazón Sangrante: The Bleeding Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America 1870-1990, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Reclaiming the Spirit, Vreg Baghoomian Gallery, New York, New York
Show of Strength, MADRE exhibition and auction, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, New York
The Contemporary Drawing: Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Visions, Fantasies and Mind Wanderings, Lintas: Worldwide, New York, New York
With Nature, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
1990 Art As Artifact, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Exoticism. Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Figurative Perspectives: 6 Artists of Latin American Background, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York
Landscape/Mindscape, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, New York
Revered Earth, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Sacred Forces: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Signs of Life - Process and Materials. 1960-1990, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York
The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
1989 Earth: Latin America's Visions, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Lines of Vision: Drawings By Contemporary Women, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, New York; Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Long Island, New York; Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan; University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; Richard F. Brush Gallery, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York; The University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
1988 Alter/Altar, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, New York
Autobiography in Her Own Images, INTAR Gallery, New York, New York
Figures: Form and Fiction, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Heresies: Issues That Won't Go Away, PPOW Gallery, New York, New York
Just Like a Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina
Transformative Visions, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Arts, Snug Harbor, New York
1987 From the Other Side, Terne Gallery, New York, New York
Terne Gallery, New York, New York
1986 Caribbean Art/African Currents, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York
In Homage to Ana Mendieta, Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, New York
Race and Representation, Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
1985 Awards in the Visual Arts 4, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1984 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Aquí: 27 Latin American Artists Working and Living in the United States, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; May Porter Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
Borsiste Straniere in Italia, Il Signo a Spoleto, Palazzo Piccoli, Spoleto, Italy
Furrows, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Land Marks, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Latin American Visual Thinking, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York
MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phases I-IV, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, California
National Women's Art Exhibition, Women's Pavilion, Louisiana World's Fair, Kenner, Louisianna Soul Catchers, Stellweg-Seguy Gallery, New York, New York
1983 Contemporary Latin American Art, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Exchange of Sources: Expanding Powers, California State College, Stanislaus, California
Feminist Art: Issues and Images, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Latin American Women Artists, Central Hall Artist, New York, New York
Printed By Women, The Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seven Women: Image/Impact, P.S. 1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City, New York
The Fertility Imperative, Cuchalon Gallery, New York, New York
Traditions and Modern Configurations, Fine Arts Gallery of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1982 4 Manifestoes, Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, New York
Art Across the Park, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture at the Guild, The Guild Inn, Toronto, Canada
¡Luchar! An Exhibition for the People of South America, Taller Latino America, New York, New York
Nature and Metaphor, Greene Space Gallery, New York, New York
Primer Salon Fotografia, Galeria Havana Libre, Havana, Cuba
Ritual and Rhythm: Visual Forces for Survival, Kenkeleba House, New York, New York
Seventh Season Part II, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
Women of the Americas: Emerging Perspectives, The Center for Inter-American Relations and Konkos Gallery, New York, New York
1981 IV Medellín Art Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Columbia
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
Art and Ecological Issues, Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
From the Files: VARS at JAM, Just Above Midtown, New York, New York
Helen Sklien Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Latin American Art: A Woman's View, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Lunds Kontshall, Lund, Sweden
Primer Salon de Pequeno Formato, Galeria Havana Libre, Havana, Cuba
Projects in Nature, Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York
Ritual and Landscape, Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
Sculpture Garden, Wards Island, New York, New York
Streetworks, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Transformation: Women in Art 1970-1980, Art Expo 1981, New York, New York
Voices Expressing What Is, Westbeth Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Art Across the Park, Central Park, Sculpture Garden, and Wards Island, New York, New York
Dialects: Diverse Bookworks by Black and Hispanic Artists, Franklin Furnace, New York, New York
Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists in the United States, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
Latin American Artists-80, Cayman Gallery, New York, New York
Plakat Action, Frankfurt, Germany
Renderings of Modern Woman, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Latin American Sculptors of the U.S., Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C.
Women/Image/Nature, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1979 112 Greene Street, New York, New York
A.I.R. Gallery
By the Sea, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
CAPS Sculpture Show, Bevier Gallery, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Exchanges I, Abron Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, New York
Expressions of Self: Women and Autobiography, Douglass College Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lines, Points & Planes, The Roosevelt Public Library Art Workshop Gallery, Roosevelt, New York
Mason Gross School for the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Private Icon, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, New York
Window to the South, Abron Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, New York
1978 Spaces II, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York of Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York
Variations on Latin Themes in New York, The Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York
Work in Progress, C Space, New York, New York
Commission on the Status of Women, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
1977 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
Contact: Women and Nature, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Corroboree: Gallery of New Concepts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Feminist Statements, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA
M.F.A. Exhibition 1976-1977, Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Raices Antigues/ Visiones Nuevas (Ancient Roots/New Visions), Tucson Museum Art, Tuscon, Arizona; National Collection of Fine Art, Washington, D.C.; Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, New York; San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1976 Mexico, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1975 112 Greene Street, New York, New York
PERFORMANCES
1982 Body Tracks, Franklin Furnace, New York, New York
1978 La Noche, Yemaya, Franklin Furnace, New York, New York
1976 Untitled (Blood and Feathers), Studenski Kulturni Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Untitled (Blood and Feathers), International Culture Center, Antwerp, Belgium
1975 Center for the New Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City
1974 Center for the New Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City
The Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Universidad Professional Zacatenco, Mexico City, Mexico
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1973 Clinton Arts Center, Clinton, Iowa
Freeze, Center for the New Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City
1972 Center for the New Performing Arts, University of Iowa, Iowa City
AWARDS
2009 Visual Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, Cintas Foundation, New York, New York
1984 Award in the Visual Arts, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1983 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York State Council on the Arts Grant
1980 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1979 Creative Arts Program Services Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts
1977 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Monographs
Oransky, Howard, ed., Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, Minneapolis: Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, in association with University of California Press, 2015.
Rosenthal, Stephanie, ed., Ana Mendieta: Traces, London: Hayward Publishing, 2013.
Merz, Beatriz, Ana Mendieta: She Got Love: Skira, 2013.
Ana Mendieta: Blood and Fire, Paris: Galerie Lelong, 2011.
Viso, Olga M., Unseen Mendieta, Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel, 2008.
Viso, Olga M., Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatie Cantz, 2004.
Ana Mendieta, Santiago de Compestela: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 1996.
Ana Mendieta: 1948 - 1985, Helsinki: Helsinki City Art Museum, 1996.
Clearwater, Bonnie, Ana Mendieta: A Book of Works, Miami: Grassfield Press Inc., 1992.
Jacob, Mary Jane, Ana Mendieta: The Silueta Series, 1973-1980, New York: Galerie Lelong, 1992.
Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective, New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987.
Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
American Patrons of Tate, New York, New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Bacardi Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Vegueta, Spain
Centro Cultural Contemporaneo, Mexico
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas (promised gift)
Daros-Latinamerica AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, Florida
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
First Chicago National Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fundação de arte Moderna e Contemporânea - Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Fundacion Museo de Arte Contemporaneo del Zulia (Maczul), Caracas, Venezuela
The Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
LINC Collection, Chicago, Illinois
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museé cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palmer Museum, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Tate Modern, London, England
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Villa Schöningen, Berlin, Germany
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
