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Ahuja repurposes painting ideas and approaches across time and geography including Egyptian form, Giotto frescoes, Hindu figuration and early American painting....
Mequitta Ahuja is a contemporary figurative painter with African American and Indian American roots.
Mequitta Ahuja
African American artist
Mequitta Ahuja (born 1976) is a contemporary American feministpainter of African American and South Asian descent who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[1][2] Ahuja creates works of self-portraiture that combine themes of myth and legend with personal identity.[3]
Early life and education
Mequitta Ahuja was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to an Indian father and African-American mother, hailing from New Delhi and Cincinnati respectively.
Ahuja grew up in a largely white community in Connecticut, and had little contact with African American communities and culture. Her upbringing in this environment is a common subject in her work.[1][4][5]
Ahuja received her BA at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1998, and her MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003, where she was mentored by contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall.[6]
Career and works
In 2007
