10. Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, 1948, and died in 1985. Ana Mendieta's work which included typical practices of the 1970s and 1980s era. She studied at the University of Iowa, where she created many of her early performance works. In 1972 Mendieta began creating haunting earth images. Over a fourteen-year time frame she created more than numerous films that expressed landscape sculptures and earthly figures.