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Mequitta received her 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 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 upcoming show, Anomalies at Rossi and Rossi Gallery in Piccadilly, London. In addition to exhibition catalogues, her work has appeared in Modern Painters, March 2007 and Art News, February 2007. Holland Cotter, art critic of the New York Times, in his “last chance” article in the June 1, 2007 edition of the Times, sighting Mequitta’s NY debut exhibition at BravinLee, stated “Referring to the artist’s African-American and East Indian background, the pictures turn marginality into a regal condition.” |
| About the Artist | |
I refer to my ongoing project as Automythography. A variation of author Audre Lorde’s coined term for her 1982 book Zami, Automythography combines history, myth and personal narrative. |
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Dream Region
2009 |
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| Currently on view at BravinLee Programs. 526 W. 26th St. New York, NY |
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Spark
2009 |
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Tress III
2008 |
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Bundle
2008 |
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Untitled
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Off the Edge
2007 |
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Afrogalaxy
2007 |
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Installation of Drawings
2005-2009 |
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Fount
2009 |
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Wriggle
2008 |
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Tress III and IV
2008, 2009 |
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Anthem
2007 |
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Ambush
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In Deep
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"Tiger-Tiger!"
2009 |
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Nest
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Bramble
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Tider
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| Education and biography | |
| 1976 Born Grand Rapids, MI 2003 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago 1998 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 2008- Pres. Artist Pension Trust 2004- Pres. Blue Sky Project, Program Designer and Director, Dayton University, Dayton OH 2006-2008 Core Program, Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2005-2009 Artist Talks: MCA Chicago, Northwestern University, Brooklyn Museum, De Young Museum SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Automythography I BravinLee Programs, NY, NY 2008 Flowback Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2007 Encounters BravinLee Programs, NY, NY 2005 12x12: Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Peripheral Vision, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond University, Richmond, VA 2009 Anomalies Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Piccadilly, London Wonder What The Others Are Up To Gallery OED, Cochin, India 2008 Houston Collects Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Curator: Alvia Wardlaw, Houston 2007 Global Feminisms Brooklyn Museum, Curators: Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, Brooklyn, NY Painters and Poets Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL, Queens Library, Jamaica, NY, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2006 Chimaera Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NY New Art Event Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS Spirit and Psyche: The Figure Transformed Highland Park Art Center, IL 2005 d’Afrique d’Asie Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Curator: by Koan Jeff Baysa, New York, NY Representations Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL 2004 Baltimore/Chicago Maryland Institute of Art, Curator: Kerry James Marshall, Baltimore, MD MEDIA: 2009 Houston Public Radio: KUHF, Meghan Handley, “The Front Row” Jan 6 Houston Chronicle, Douglas Britt, “Artwork is a reflection of its audience” p.E2 Jan 8 Callaloo: Arts and Letters of the African Diaspora, Johns Hopkins University Press, 32.1 Winter 2008 ABC 13 News, Laura Whitley “MFAH Houston Collects” October 15 2007 The New York Times, Holland Cotter “Last Chance” June 1 Art News, Phoebe Hoban “We’re Finally Infiltrating” February Modern Painters, Carrie Moyer “VIVA” March SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGS 2009 Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Anomalies Maria Benjamin Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Collects African American Art, Alvia Wardlaw 2007 Brooklyn Museum Global Feminisms, Maura Reilly Ulrich Museum Poets and Painters, Katie Geha AWARDS: 2009 National Portrait Gallery, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Current Semifinalist 2008 Artadia Award, Houston Cornelia and Meredith Long Prize: Award to departing Core fellow $10,000 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS U.S. State Department, Mumbai, India Cleveland Children’s Clinic, Cleveland, OH Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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