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Ana Mendieta is from Havana, Cuba

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Ana was born November 18, 1948 and died September 8, 1985

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Ana Mendieta was a recipient of the 2009 Cintas Foundation lifetime achievement award in visual arts. She also received the reward Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Ana was a Cuban- American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth- body" artwork.

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Ana died from injuries sustained in a tragic fall from a window in her New York City apartment building.

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Ana was considered one of the most influential Cuban-American artist of the post-World War ll era. Ana's religion deeply influenced her work in choice of materials and settings.

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Religion beliefs, education, family and childhood 

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Religion beliefs, education, family and childhood 

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Even though Ana was raised Catholic, she developed an interest in the rituals involved with Santeria, a culturally predominant Cuban religion. Ana received a BA in art in 1969 and an MA in painting in 1972 both from the University of lowa. Seek a more powerful means of image making, Ana then enrolled in the university's progressive MFA inter media Program. Ana's mother was Raquel Mendieta, her father was Ignacio Mendieta she also had a older sister named Raquelin Mendieta. At the age of 12, after her father joined anti-Castro counterrevolutionary forces, Ana was sent to the United States with her sister under Operation Pedro Pan.