{"id":56235,"date":"2018-04-22T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56235"},"modified":"2018-04-22T20:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:21:40","slug":"artist-at-work-mequitta-ahuja-wins-a-guggenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56235","title":{"rendered":"Artist At Work: Mequitta Ahuja Wins A Guggenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmoreart.com\/2018\/04\/artist-at-work-mequitta-ahuja-wins-a-guggenheim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Artist At Work: Mequitta Ahuja Wins A Guggenheim<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmoreart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BmoreArt<\/a><br \/>\nBaltimore, Maryland<br \/>\n2018-04-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caraober.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cara Ober<\/strong><\/a>, Founding Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmoreart.com\/2018\/04\/artist-at-work-mequitta-ahuja-wins-a-guggenheim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmoreart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1.-Mequitta-Ahuja-Studio-Photo.jpeg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An Interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mequittaahuja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mequitta Ahuja<\/a> About Success, Heartbreak, and a Recent Guggenheim Award by <a href=\"https:\/\/caraober.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cara Ober<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The July 24, 2017 issue of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mequittaahuja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mequitta Ahuja\u2018s<\/a> work, then on view at the <a href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asia Society Museum<\/a>, as \u201cwhip-smart and languorous.\u201d According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/all-fellows\/mequitta-ahuja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Simon Guggenheim Foundation<\/a>, where she was just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/all-fellows\/mequitta-ahuja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named a 2018 Fellow<\/a>, Mequitta Ahuja\u2019s works have been widely exhibited, including venues such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiomuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchigallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saatchi Gallery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/new.artsmia.org\/?utm_source=Google&amp;utm_medium=CPC&amp;utm_term=TC%20Museums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis Institute of Art<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/crystalbridges.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crystal Bridges<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/artbma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore Museum of Art<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmuseumgr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Rapids Art Museum<\/a>. Ahuja, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltimore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltimore<\/a>-based artist whose parents hail from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cincinnati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Delhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Delhi<\/a>, has long employed her own image to challenge historic traditions of portrait painting.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmoreart.com\/2018\/04\/artist-at-work-mequitta-ahuja-wins-a-guggenheim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Interview with Mequitta Ahuja About Success, Heartbreak, and a Recent Guggenheim Award by Cara Ober<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,13743,8,20],"tags":[23537,23538,28492,10606],"class_list":["post-56235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bmoreart","tag-cara-ober","tag-john-simon-guggenheim-foundation","tag-mequitta-ahuja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56237,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56235\/revisions\/56237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}