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On August 16, 2016, Art on the Vine presented by The Agora Culture is set to transform Martha’s Vineyard with a one-day art exhibition featuring over 20 contemporary artists of color, 100 available works, and educational seminars aimed for both new and seasoned collectors.
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Charles Saatchi’s days as an arbiter of cutting-edge art feel long gone.
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Tiwani Contemporary, London, gathers together four international artists for its latest group exhibition, Mythopoeia.
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Mequitta Ahuja sits on a small green blanket printed with lush, red flowers. The world behind her is assembled from sheets of vellum graph paper glued
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The past few years have been a busy time for new (or renewed) contemporary art institutions in Austin. The Blanton Museum of Art opened
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The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation announced today the 30 recipients of its 17th biennial grants to American contemporary artists
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Mequitta refers to her work as "Automythography." She states, "A variation of author Audre Lorde’s 1982 coined term, Automythography combines history, myth and personal narrative. My process begins with private performances in front of the camera. Through both inward and outward gaze, posture and dress, I position myself as agent of my own depiction. I document these performances using a remote shutter control and use the resulting photographs as non-fictional source material. Through preliminary drawings, I add invented elements. The resulting self-portraits embody a means of self-invention and creative self-sufficiency."
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 at 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 Anomalies at Rossi and Rossi Gallery in Piccadilly, London.
In addition to exhibition catalogs, her work has appeared in Modern Painters, March 2007, and Art News, February 2007. In his “last chance” article on the June 1, 2007, edition of the New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter, wrote about Mequitta’s debut exhibition at BravinLee, “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 and was 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 BravinLee Programs in New York. She lives and works in Houston.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art