Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American artist whose work explored the intersections of body, landscape, and identity. Through her Silueta Series and ritual earth-body performances, she merged feminist, ecological, and diasporic concerns, redefining the parameters of Land Art. Mendieta transformed exile and displacement into a poetics of belonging, using materials such as blood, soil, and fire to inscribe her presence within nature. Her practice bridges ancestral ritual and contemporary conceptual art, influencing generations of artists engaged with postcolonial and eco-feminist thought. Major retrospectives of her work have been presented at the Whitney Museum, Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim.
