Artworks · Ana Mendieta

Untitled

1984 · Pencil on leaf

5 1/4 × 2" (13.3 × 5.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1984 · Incised leaf

6 x 3 1/2" (15.2 x 8.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Nile Born

1984 · Sand and binder on wood

2 3/4 x 19 1/4 x 61 1/2" (7 x 48.9 x 156.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled [First Woman]

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 13.3 × 9.3 cm (5 1/4 × 3 11/16 in.); Plate: 13.5 × 9.5 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.); Primary support: 13.1 × 9 cm (5 3/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.5 × 18.2 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Mother Blood

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 14.1 × 9.3 cm (5 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.); Plate: 14.3 × 9.3 cm (5 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.); Primary support: 14.1 × 9.2 cm (5 9/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 25.2 × 18.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Box for Rupestrian Images

1983 · Box

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 9.5 × 13 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 9.1 × 13.5 cm (3 5/8 × 5 3/8 in.); Primary support: 9.2 × 13.3 cm (3 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.4 × 18 cm (10 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Our Menstruation

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 13.2 × 10 cm (5 1/4 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 13.3 × 10 cm (5 1/4 × 3 15/16 in.); Primary support: 13.3 × 10 cm (5 1/4 × 3 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.6 × 18 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mother

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 9.8 × 13 cm (3 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 10 × 13.1 cm (3 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Primary support: 9.8 × 12.9 cm (3 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 25.4 × 18.1 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled [Goddess of Wind]

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 9 × 13.4 cm (3 9/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Plate: 9 × 13.2 cm (3 9/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Primary support: 9 × 13.1 cm (3 9/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.5 × 18 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Jaruco Caves

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 9.5 × 13.2 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 9.5 × 13.2 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Primary support: 9.4 × 13.5 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 25.4 × 18.1 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mother of the Waters

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 13.3 × 9.1 cm (5 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.); Plate: 13.6 × 9.2 cm (5 3/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Primary support: 13.4 × 9.1 cm (5 5/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 25.5 × 18.1 cm (10 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Goddess of Wind

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 9.4 × 13.3 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 9.2 × 13.1 cm (3 5/8 × 5 3/16 in.); Primary support: 9.4 × 13.3 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.5 × 18 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

First Woman

1983 · Photo-etching on cream chine, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 13.4 × 9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 13.3 × 9 cm (5 1/4 × 3 9/16 in.); Primary support: 13.4 × 9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 25.5 × 18 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1983 · Ink on paper

13 x 8 1/4" (33 x 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1983 · Ink on paper

12 1/2 x 9 1/2" (31.8 x 24.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1983 · Gelatin silver print

25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (Amategram)

1982 · Acrylic on amate bark paper

15 7/8 x 11 7/8" (40.3 x 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Esculturas Rupestres) [Rupestrian Sculptures]

1981 · Chromogenic print

Sheet: 40 × 55 in. (101.6 × 139.7 cm) Mount: 40 × 55 × 1/8 in. (101.6 × 139.7 × 0.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (Amategram)

1981 · Acrylic paint on amate (Mexican bark paper)

42 × 30.5 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ochún

1981 · Single-channel video (transferred from 3⁄4-inch U-Matic videotape), color, sound, 8 min. 17 sec.

Art Institute of Chicago

Birth (Gunpowder Works)

1981 · Gelatin silver print

7 3/16 × 9 1/2" (18.3 × 24.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Amategram Series – Mother Jungle

1981 · Black acrylic paint on bark paper

24 1/4 × 16 1/8 in. (61.6 × 41 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amategram Series – Labyrinth of Venus

1981 · Black opaque watercolor and black acrylic paint on Mexican bark paper (amate)

16 9/16 × 12 1/8 in. (42.1 × 30.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amategram Series – The Vivification of the Flesh

1981 · Black acrylic paint on bark paper

24 3/4 in. × 17 in. (62.9 × 43.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Itiba Cahubaba (Old Mother Blood/Ensangrentada Madre Vieja)

1981 · Gelatin silver print

25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled

1978 · Gelatin silver print

13 1/4 × 19 1/2" (33.6 × 49.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Blood and Feathers #2)

1974 · Film, Super 8 mm, shown as video, projection, colour

duration: 3min, 30sec

Tate

Blood Sign

1974 · Single-channel video (transferred from Super-8 film), color, silent; 4 min. 40 sec.

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood)

1973 · Photograph, colour on paper

frame: 398 x 310 x 32 mm

Tate

Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints)

1972 · Six chromogenic color prints

Each 19 5/16 × 12 13/16" (49 × 32.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations)

1972 · Four chromogenic color prints, printed 1997

Each 19 1/4 × 12 3/4" (48.9 × 32.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art