Ana Mendieta
in ‘Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta’, MFA Boston
12 April 2025 – 15 February 2026
Ana Mendieta, Untitled, 1981, Colour photograph, 56.9 x 72.6 x 3.2 cm © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This exhibition brings together works from the MFA’s collection by María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta in the first focused look at these influential artists side by side.
Though the two never met, their practices share a reckoning with displacement and exile from their homes in Cuba, a deep reverence for the land, and a transformative use of natural elements like water, earth, and fire. For both artists, memory, ritual, and spirituality animate their artworks across photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance.