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Mequitta Ahuja
Biography
Mequitta Ahuja (b. 1976) was born in Grand Rapids, Mich. She earned a B.A. from Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass., in 1998, and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. A solo show was recently held for her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and she has been included in group exhibitions at Johnsonese Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago; Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York; Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, New York; and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kans. Ahuja’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Ulrich Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in Chicago.
Feminist Artist Statement
I see Feminism as one system of analyzing the formation of private and public identity as well as a political impulse toward freedom equality. There are other such endeavors such as Critical Studies and Afrocentrism. The premise of much of my work is that race exists only as a social construction and not as a fact of biology. Feminist analysis of the construction of gender, was my avenue to better understanding the formation of a racialized individual and group.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum