Mequitta Ahuja: Automythography™
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  • Newest Series: Rhyme Sequence
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    • Collage Drawings (2011-2013)
    • In Back Garden (2012-2013)
    • Dream Sequence (2010-2011)
    • Enamel (2007-2009)
    • Waxy Chalk (2007-2009)
    • Automythography (2005-2013)
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…”brilliant patches of red and blue washes beneath a dense network of transparent blacks tinted with phthalo blues and greens, which, in turn, lie under shiny impasto lines of black paint, raised as keloids, but tangled as brambles.”                  Christine Wong Yap


News:
2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

War Baby/Love Child Exhibition Publication
 
Reviews
Washington Posts' Michael O'Sullivan on Portraiture Now  

Anthony L. Harvey of InTowner on Portraiture Now

Ari Post of the Georgetowner on Portraiture Now


Brett Busang on Portraiture Now at the National Portrait Gallery

John Haber on Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Sarah Wade on Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Art Practical on Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem 

John Ewing on Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Christopher Lowrance on Freedom to Expand at Ulrich Museum 


Holland Cotter of the New York Time.  Last Chance.

Houston Chronicle on Flowback at Lawndale Arts Center


Rebecca Dimling Cochran "Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities" Artforum.com (login required)


Sheila Regan on Drawings For The New Century at Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Profiles
NY Chanel 13 Sunday Arts on Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum

International Review of African American Art on the Studio Museum's AIRs

Rina Banerjee on Mequitta Ahuja for Usable Pasts Exhibition Brochure

ARTnews "Artist To Watch" Profile, Feb 2010


Interviews 
Interview on MW Capactiy

Interview by Wendy Vogel on Might Be Good

Interview by Nicole J. Caruth on Might Be Good

Houston Public Radio on Flowback at Lawndale Arts Center

Houston ABC News Channel 13 on MFAH exhibit: interview with Mequitta

Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Residence Roundtable Discussion 


Other Writings
Mequitta Ahuja: Afrogalaxy by Romi Crawford

Smithsonian Magazine Blog on Portraiture Now

Search for the Meaning by Nancy Hughes

New works for the Blanton Collection by Shannon Moore