Artist At Work: Mequitta Ahuja Wins A GuggenheimPosted in Articles, Arts, Asian Diaspora, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2018-04-22 20:20Z by Steven |
Artist At Work: Mequitta Ahuja Wins A Guggenheim
BmoreArt
Baltimore, Maryland
2018-04-16
Cara Ober, Founding Editor
An Interview with Mequitta Ahuja About Success, Heartbreak, and a Recent Guggenheim Award by Cara Ober
The July 24, 2017 issue of the New Yorker described Mequitta Ahuja‘s work, then on view at the Asia Society Museum, as “whip-smart and languorous.” According to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, where she was just named a 2018 Fellow, Mequitta Ahuja’s works have been widely exhibited, including venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Saatchi Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges, Baltimore Museum of Art and Grand Rapids Art Museum. Ahuja, a Baltimore-based artist whose parents hail from Cincinnati and New Delhi, has long employed her own image to challenge historic traditions of portrait painting.
I caught up with the artist to ask about her momentous Guggenheim award, announced April 5, 2018, and to discuss the new opportunities and ideas abounding in her studio…
Read the entire interview here.
