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Mequitta Ahuja
2003 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1998 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2014 Artist in Residence: Project Fellow, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2011-2012 MICA, Stewart McMillan Artist-in-Residence, Baltimore, MD
2009-2010 Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2008- Pres. Artist Pension Trust, New York Trust, NY
2006-2008 Core Program, Artist-in-Residence, MFAH, Houston, TX
2004-2012 Blue Sky Project, Program Designer and Director, Dayton, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Mequitta Ahuja, General Audience Presents, Miami FL.
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 Encouners BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2005 Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan 12X12, MCA, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
2012 Sleeping Inside Our Bodies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee
2012 In Between Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 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 Weaving in and Out No Longer Empty, New York, NY
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
2009 Anomalies Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Piccadilly, London
2009 Wonder What The Others Are Up To Gallery OED, Cochin, India
2009 $timulus Artadia Awardees Exhbiition Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2009 The Talented Ten Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
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, traveled to: Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2006 Chimaera Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NY
2006 New Art Event Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
2006 Spirit and Psyche:The Figure Transformed Highland Park Art Center, IL
2005 d’Afrique d’Asie Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 Representations Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
2004 Baltimore/Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art, Curated by Kerry James Marshall, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS
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 EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2009 Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Anomalies Maria Benjamin
2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collects African American Art, Alvia Wardlaw
2007 Brooklyn Museum Global Feminisms, Maura Reilly
2007 Ulrich Museum Poets and Painters, Katie Geha
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
U.S. State Department, Mumbai, India
MEDIA
2012 The Washington Post, Michael O'Sullivan "In Fact, There's Fiction on Display" Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge Review, Editor's Picks Dec. 7
2012 Art and Social Justice Education, Romi Crawford "Mequitta Ahuja: Afrogalaxy" chapter 5, p.17-18, pic 5
2010 Art Practical, Christine Wong "From New York" issue 2.1
2010 Thirteen New York Public Media "Sunday Arts News" September 19
2010 The New Yorker, Vince Aletti, "Usable Pasts" August 18
2010 ARTnews, Rachel Wolff "Artists to Watch" February
2010 ArtConcerns, Profile
2010 MW Capacity, Chris Lowrance, Interview
2009 Houston Public Radio, KUHF, Meghan Handley, "The Front Row" Jan 6
2009 Houston Chronicle, Douglas Britt, "Artwork is a Reflection of its Audience" p.E2 Jan 8
2009 Callaloo: Arts and Letters of the African Diaspora, Johns Hopkins University Press, 32.1 Winter
2009 Might be Good, Nicole Caruth, Interview
2009 Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice, Rebecca Wilson, Review
2009 Artforum.com, Rebecca Dimling Cochran, "Undercover" Review
2008 ABC 13 News, Laura Whitley "MFAH Houston Collects" October 15
2007 The New York Times, Holland Cotter "Last Chance"June 1
2007 Art News, Phoebe Hoban "We’re Finally Infiltrating" February
2007 Modern Painters, Carrie Moyer "VIVA" March
ARTIST TALKS
Brooklyn Museum
De Young Museum
Lawndale Art Center
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA)
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Northwestern University
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Studio Museum in Harlem
2003 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
1998 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2014 Artist in Residence: Project Fellow, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2011-2012 MICA, Stewart McMillan Artist-in-Residence, Baltimore, MD
2009-2010 Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY
2008- Pres. Artist Pension Trust, New York Trust, NY
2006-2008 Core Program, Artist-in-Residence, MFAH, Houston, TX
2004-2012 Blue Sky Project, Program Designer and Director, Dayton, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Mequitta Ahuja, General Audience Presents, Miami FL.
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 Encouners BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2005 Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan 12X12, MCA, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
2012 Sleeping Inside Our Bodies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee
2012 In Between Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 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 Weaving in and Out No Longer Empty, New York, NY
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
2009 Anomalies Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Piccadilly, London
2009 Wonder What The Others Are Up To Gallery OED, Cochin, India
2009 $timulus Artadia Awardees Exhbiition Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2009 The Talented Ten Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
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, traveled to: Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2006 Chimaera Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NY
2006 New Art Event Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
2006 Spirit and Psyche:The Figure Transformed Highland Park Art Center, IL
2005 d’Afrique d’Asie Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005 Representations Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
2004 Baltimore/Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art, Curated by Kerry James Marshall, Baltimore, MD
AWARDS
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 EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2009 Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Anomalies Maria Benjamin
2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collects African American Art, Alvia Wardlaw
2007 Brooklyn Museum Global Feminisms, Maura Reilly
2007 Ulrich Museum Poets and Painters, Katie Geha
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
U.S. State Department, Mumbai, India
MEDIA
2012 The Washington Post, Michael O'Sullivan "In Fact, There's Fiction on Display" Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge Review, Editor's Picks Dec. 7
2012 Art and Social Justice Education, Romi Crawford "Mequitta Ahuja: Afrogalaxy" chapter 5, p.17-18, pic 5
2010 Art Practical, Christine Wong "From New York" issue 2.1
2010 Thirteen New York Public Media "Sunday Arts News" September 19
2010 The New Yorker, Vince Aletti, "Usable Pasts" August 18
2010 ARTnews, Rachel Wolff "Artists to Watch" February
2010 ArtConcerns, Profile
2010 MW Capacity, Chris Lowrance, Interview
2009 Houston Public Radio, KUHF, Meghan Handley, "The Front Row" Jan 6
2009 Houston Chronicle, Douglas Britt, "Artwork is a Reflection of its Audience" p.E2 Jan 8
2009 Callaloo: Arts and Letters of the African Diaspora, Johns Hopkins University Press, 32.1 Winter
2009 Might be Good, Nicole Caruth, Interview
2009 Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice, Rebecca Wilson, Review
2009 Artforum.com, Rebecca Dimling Cochran, "Undercover" Review
2008 ABC 13 News, Laura Whitley "MFAH Houston Collects" October 15
2007 The New York Times, Holland Cotter "Last Chance"June 1
2007 Art News, Phoebe Hoban "We’re Finally Infiltrating" February
2007 Modern Painters, Carrie Moyer "VIVA" March
ARTIST TALKS
Brooklyn Museum
De Young Museum
Lawndale Art Center
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA)
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Northwestern University
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Studio Museum in Harlem
