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I refer to my work and process as “Automythography.” A variation on the term coined by artistic parent, author Audre Lorde, I define Automythography as a constructive process of identity formation in which nature and self-invention merge. As self-portraits, the subject in my works is the artist. By painting the subject in the act of making her world, I position art as a central tool in the process of identity formation and agency in one’s own representation. In tandem with the subject’s emergence and self-presentation, is the making of the painting itself. I retain proof of each painting’s development in its final stage. My process of trial and revision creates abrupt transitions of texture, discontinuous forms and fractured space giving my work its aesthetic character. My figures traverse invented landscapes. Whether she is present or absent, the environments I paint are her domain. |
| About the Artist | |
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, Lawndale Art Center in Houston and BravinLee Programs in New York. Her works have been included in group exhibitions at The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Ulrich Museum. Mequitta exhibited in Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum. 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 on June 1, 2007, 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.” Mequitta was awarded a 2008 Houston Artadia Prize. She is a member of the New York Artist’s Pension Trust. Mequitta’s works are in notable public and private collections. Public collections include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ulrich Museum in Wichita KS, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, U.S. State Department’s Mumbai, India offices and The Cleveland Clinic. Mequitta is a 2009-2010 artist-in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is a 2009 Joan Mitchell award recipient |
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Dream Sequence: In Service of Birds
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Dream Sequence: Kaa's Hunting
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| 2003 MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago 1998 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2010 New Works, Obadia Gallery, Paris, France. 2009 Automythography I BravinLee Programs, NY, NY 2008 Flowback Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2007 Encounters BravinLee Programs, NY, NY 2005 Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan 12X12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL SELECTED PAST GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Undercover Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC Anomalies Rossi and Rossi Gallery, Piccadilly, London Wonder What The Others Are Up To Gallery OED, Cochin, India $timulus Artadia Awardees Exhbiition Diverseworks, Houston, TX The Talented Ten Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX 2008 Houston Collects Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Curator: Alvia Wardlaw, Houston, TX 2007 Global Feminisms Brooklyn Museum, Curators: Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, Brooklyn, NY Painters and Poets Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, traveled to: 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 AWARDS: 2009 Joan Mitchell Award 2008 Artadia Award, Houston Cornelia and Meredith Long Prize, Inaugural Recipient 2003 Chicago Civic Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, First Place 2002 University of Illinois Diversity Fellowship PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS U.S. State Department, Mumbai, India MEDIA: 2010 ARTnews, Rachel Wolff “Artists to Watch” February 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 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 2009-2010 Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY 2008- Pres. Artist Pension Trust, Artist, New York Trust, New York, NY 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 2004- Pres. Blue Sky Project, Program Designer and Director, Dayton University, Dayton OH |
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| Upcoming Solo: 2010 New Works, Obadia Gallery, Paris, France. Scheduled Group Shows: 2010 Artist in Residence Exhibion, Studio Museum in Harlem Hair Tactics Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Peripheral Vision Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond University, Richmond, VA 2011 Portraiture Now National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC War Baby/Love Child DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL 2012 War Baby/Love Child Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA |
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