About the Artist.

Ana Mendieta (b. 1948, Cuba; d. 1985, US) was a Cuban-born artist who primarily lived and worked in the United States, creating work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. In a short but prolific career, Mendieta created works that have been exhibited at institutions around the world in a wide-range of exhibitions and biennials. Mendieta was a recipient of the 2009 Cintas Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, awarded posthumously, and her work is in numerous public collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; and the Tate Modern, London amongst others.

About the Participants.

Raquel Cecilia is an independent filmmaker and writer whose most recent film, Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside, is currently screening in connection with the traveling exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta. Another version of Nature Inside also screened during the exhibition, Ana Mendieta, Traces/Stopy in Prague at the Rudolfinum Gallery in 2014-2015. Raquel is currently the film archivist and administrative assistant at the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC and was responsible for the digital mastering of Ana Mendieta’s complete works on film and video to high-definition and oversaw the color grade and digital restoration of the artist’s works on film.  She is also finishing a feature length documentary, Rebel by Nature: The life and art of Ana Mendieta.  Raquel received an MFA from The School of Theater Film and Television at UCLA in 2005.

Erin Christovale is the Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is the curator of Black Radical Imagination with Amir George, which has screened both nationally and internationally in spaces such as MoMA PS1, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco. Exhibitions include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of A Watermelon Woman (2016) and A Subtle Likeness (2016) at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She is currently organizing Made in L.A. 2018 with Anne Ellegood at the Hammer Museum.

Alma Ruiz is the former Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, where she curated numerous exhibitions focusing on the postwar period in the United States, Italy, and Latin America, as well as on emerging artists. In addition to having served as a guest curator at the Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles; she has acted as a juror for numerous biennials in Latin America, including the V Panama Biennial, the Tamayo Biennial in Mexico City, and the Second Exhibition of Central American Emerging Artists in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Cesar Garcia is TMR’s Executive and Artistic Director