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| Mequitta Ahuja |
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| Mequitta received an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2003, mentored by Kerry James Marshall. She has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and BravinLee Programs in New York. She has participated in group exhibitions including Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum, Houston Collects African American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Poets and Painters at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita KS and upcoming show, Anomalies at Rossi and Rossi Gallery in Piccadilly, London. In addition to exhibition catalogues, her work has appeared in Modern Painters, March 2007 and Art News, February 2007. Holland Cotter, art critic of the New York Times, in his “last chance” article in the June 1, 2007 edition of the Times, sighting Mequitta’s NY debut exhibition at BravinLee, stated “Referring to the artist’s African-American and East Indian background, the pictures turn marginality into a regal condition.” Mequitta was awarded a 2008 Houston Artadia Prize as well as the 2008 inaugural recipient of the Meredith and Cornelia Long Prize. Mequitta’s works are in several collections. Public collections include the Ulrich Museum in Wichita KS, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, U.S. State Department’s Mumbai, India offices and The Cleveland Children’s Clinic. Mequitta has recently completed a two-year artist residency at The Core Program in Houston Texas. In addition to her work as an artist, Mequitta is the designer of and Program Director for artist-in-residence program, Blue Sky Project. Mequitta Ahuja's works on paper are represented by Bravin Lee Programs in New York, NY. She lives and works in Houston. |
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