Ana Mendieta

"I offer these details as a way of condensing information and, more importantly, as a way of breaking art criticism's usual frame of objectivity. Too often, critics conceal their friendships and interrelationships with the artists they are writing about, and the reader is left thinking critics are divorced from social life. Transparency is the best policy. The fact is that I have had thousands of students, but Mendieta stands out. She took the new forms she was exposed to at the University of Iowa and made them her own." Ana Mendieta

She was moved from cuba at the age of 13. Her and her sister were put into several foster cares. She got her BA from theUniversity of Iowa. She also earned an MA in painting. Throughout the course of her career, she created work in Cuba, Mexico, Italy, and the United States of America