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  • Works on Canvas 2005-2020
  • Artist Statement
  • Digital Portfolio
  • Works on Paper 2005-2020
  • Exhibition Schedule & Press
    • Exhibition Schedule
    • Press
    • Studio and Installation
  • Exhibition Pictures
  • About the Artist: Bio, CV
    • Artist Talk
    • Biography
    • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact
  • Text and Video
    • Open Letter to Weston, CT
    • Demonstration
    • 1,000 Words
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Mequitta Ahuja
2003 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1998 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 


FELLOWSHIPS
2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 
2015 Dora Maar House, Artist in Residence, Menerbes, France

2014 Siena Art Institute, Artist in Residence, Siena, Italy 
2011-2012 MICA, Stewart-McMillan Artist in Residence, Baltimore, MD 
2009-2010 Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist in Residence, New York, NY  
2006-2008 Core Program, Artist in Residence, MFAH, Houston, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Notations Tiwani Contemporary

2014 Automythography The Dodd Contemporary Art Center, Athens, GA
2013 Mequitta Ahuja  Thierry Golberg Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Mequitta Ahuja and Robert Pruitt  Bakersfield Museum of 
         Art, Bakersfield, CA (2 person show)
2010 Trois  Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France.
2010 Automythography II  Arthouse, Austin, TX
2009 Automythography I   BravinLee Programs, New York, NY 

2008 Flowback  Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2007 Encounters  BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2005 Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan  12X12, MCA, Chicago, IL


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Art World We Want, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2017 American African American, Phillips, London
2017 Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: Asian Society, NY

2017 Face to Face, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA 
2017 Shifting David C. Driskell Center, College Park, Maryland 

2016 Statements  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2016 Champagne Life  Saatchi Gallery of Art, London, UK
2016 State of the Art  ​Minneapolis Institute of Art & Telfair Museums

2015 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition  Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2014 State of the Art  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR
2014  Marks of Genius  Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
2013 Portraiture Now  National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2013  War Baby/Love Child  DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2012 The Bearden Project  The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012 The Human Touch  The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2012 Red  Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium 
2011 Collected:Ritual  Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011 Drawings for the New Century  Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 
2010 Usable Pasts (Artists in Residence Exhibition  Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2010Freedom to Expand  Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2010 Body of Work (Women to Watch)  National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 
2010 Art on Paper  Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2010 Until Now: Collecting the New (1960- 2010  Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2010 New Works for the Collection  Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2009 Undercover  Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA
2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition  Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2008 Houston Collects  Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2007 Global Feminisms  Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Painters and Poets  Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS,
2006 Chimaera  Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NY
2006 New Art Event  Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
2004 Baltimore/Chicago  Maryland Institute College of Art, Curated by Kerry James Marshall, Baltimore, MD


INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
​Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 
Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
U.S. State Department, Mumbai Consulate, India 

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AWARDS
2018    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2013    Maryland Individual Artist Award
2011      Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2009   Joan Mitchell Award
2008    Artadia Award, Houston
2008    Cornelia and Meredith Long Prize 
2003    Chicago Civic Arts Foundation, First Place
2002    University of Illinois Diversity Fellowship


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014    Crystal Bridges State of the Art Don Bacigalupi and Chad Alligood 
2014    Point of View: African American Art from the Elliot and Kimberly
             Perry Collection Tress II p.85
2013    Blanton Museum of Art 110 Favorites From the Collection Simone F.
             Wicha Parade p.108
2013    DePaul Art Museum War Baby Love Child  Laura Kina and WeiMing
             Dariotis, Front cover, about, 197; Automythography, 17, 197, 198;  
             Dream Region, 198-99, 259n1, plate 32; hybrid vision of self, 188;
             interview, 197-99; Spark, 4-5, 198-99, plate 1
2013      Callaloo: Arts and Letters of the African Diaspora Volume 36,
             Number 2, Cover: Royal Ease, Surge  
2012    The Studio Museum in Harlem The Bearden Project Thelma Golden
             and Lauren Haynes, Epilogue p.35  
2012       Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons “Mequitta
​             Ahuja: Afrogalaxy” Romi Crawford
2010    The Studio Museum in Harlem Re: Collection “Kerry James Marshall”
             essay by Mequitta Ahuja p.98
2009    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collecting African American Art Alvia
              Wardlaw Back cover, p. 90-91
2009    Callaloo: Arts and Letters of the African Diaspora Volume 32,
              Number 1, Off the Edge p.279
2007    Brooklyn Museum Global Feminisms Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin,
              Bio p.267 Boogie Woogie p.169
2007    Ulrich Museum Poets and Painters Katie Geha, Tsunami Generation
​                         
p.28. with poet Eric Baus p.29


SELECTED PRESS
2014      ARTnews.com “101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This
              Week” Robin Cembalast, Feb 6
2013      The Chicago Tribune ‘War Baby’ is Something to See if You Can Let 
              Go” Lori Waxman, May 8
                     Gallerist NY “Mequitta Ahuja at Thierry Goldberg Gallery” Will  
              Heinrich, Nov 26
                         Face to Face: (Smithsonian blog) “Beneath the Surface: An Unusual
              Installation” Warren Perry, April 26
                        Vocolo 90.7FM “War Baby/Love Child” Interview with Brian Babylon,
              May 16
                        The Washington Post Editor’s Picks: “In Fact There Is Fiction on
              Display” Michael O’Sulivan, Dec 7
 2010    The International Review of African American Art “Usable Pasts…”
              Cherilyn Wright, 23.1
                       The New Yorker “Usable Pasts” Vince Aletti, August 18
                        ARTnews “Artists to Watch: The Key to Her Locks” Rachel Wolff,
              February, p. 76-77 
2009    Houston Public Radio KUHF “The Front Row” Meghan Handley, Jan 6
                        Houston Chronicle “Artwork is a Reflection of its Audience” Douglas        
              Britt, Jan 8, p.E2
2007   The New York Times “Last Chance” Holland Cotter, June 1, 2007
                   Art News “We’re Finally Infiltrating” Phoebe Hoban, February, p.112
                   Modern Painters “VIVA” Carrie Moyer, March, p.77                       

ARTIST TALKS 
Brooklyn Museum
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
De Young Museum
​Harvard University 
Lawndale Art Center 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA)
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) 
Northwestern University
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Studio Museum in Harlem 


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