Ana Mendieta Manor heads to Marian Goodman Gallery

The Marian Goodman Gallery will now represent the property of Cuba-born multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta. The gallery will be held in November in New York before the major review of Tate Modern next year.

As part of the agreement, the estate will continue to work with Alison Jacques of London and Prats Nogueras Blanchard of Barcelona and Madrid, but will leave Galerie Lelong, which has been on behalf of Mendieta for more than three decades.

“With exciting new projects and increasing momentum in work, we are interested in realizing that we need a larger gallery that can help us bring Anna’s legacy into the future and meet the needs of the next chapter,” said Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, the artist’s niece, who has been a real estate administrator since 2013.

“It is a great honor to work with Ana Mendieta’s estate,” Junette Teng, a partner at Marian Goodman Gallery, told him. Artnews. “Her work is deeply personal and universally resonant, while also conceptually strict, which makes her naturally fit our plans. She does expand the possibilities of art.”

Born in Havana in 1948, Mendieta was sent to Iowa during the Cuban Revolution, known for her multidisciplinary “Earth” work, exploring the themes of immigration, spirituality and humanity’s relationship to the natural world. She uses site-specific materials to insert human forms into nature, often fusing her own contours or using her body as a canvas. She then documented these brief interventions and showed photos and Super 8 shots on display today.

During her life, Mendietta received two grants from the Roman Award, the Guggenheim Scholarship and the National Foundation for the Arts. Her work was commissioned by a private collector and was acquired by institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In September 1985, in Mendieta, his sister Raquelín, in collaboration with the Artist Friends and Peer Committee, organized a retrospective exhibition in 1987 at the New Museum in New York. In 1991, Mendieta’s property’s long-term partnership with Lelong, which just opened a New York branch led by Mary Sabbatino, its vice president and partner.

“Mary Sabbatino and I have a relationship, not just a partnership, we become like family,” Raquelín Mendieta told Artnews In the email. “I am very grateful to Mary for recognizing the importance of Anna’s work in the early days, and all the great times between the estate and the gallery.” To date, the artist’s work has appeared in more than 600 group performances and over 55 solo exhibitions, including 16 museum reviews.

In recent years, public awareness of Mendieta’s life and work has been increasing, partly due to the development of a series of media projects without the support of the legacy. Mendieta’s work set a new auction record at Christie’s last November, selling untitled wood sculptures for $756,000 in 1985, the third record of her art creation in 12 months.

Raquel Cecilia believes that contemporary audiences are answering common, timely questions in her aunt’s work: “’Who are we? Where do we come from? Where do we belong?’”

“In today’s cultural and political landscape, there is a certain spiritual and cultural foundation being found”.

But all this attention implies a new need for the estates and galleries that represent it. There is a surge in licensing and loan requests, Raquel Cecilia said: “We have museums that are interested in installing some of the ANA’s site-specific works that we have never done before.” In July 2026, Tate Modern will give a major review of the artist’s paintings, photographs, films, sculptures and earthworks, and bring several works to the UK for the first time.

“Anna will represent Robert Smithson and [Giuseppe] Among Penone and other artists who are aligned with her work,” Raquelín wrote, Marian Goodman’s lineup. She is also pleased to know that her work has resonated for many years and continues to attract new audiences-the public is related not only to her art, but also to the ideas behind it.”