Ana was born in 1948 in Havana, Cuba but came to the U.S. at a young age. She used her own body as both subject and media to explore issues of gender and cultural identity. The naked female form along with nature is in many of her pieces. She self-labeled her own genre of art called “earth-body art.” One theme in her early performance art was violence against the female body. Later Mendieta focused on a spiritual and physical connection with the land, which typically involved carving her imprint into sand or mud, making body prints or painting her outline or silhouette onto a wall. Sadly Ana Mendieta fell 34 floors to her death from the window of her Greenwich Village apartment. The only other person with her at the time was her husband of only eight months, prominent minimalist sculptor Carl Andre.
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