Mequitta Ahuja

**Mequitta Ahuja** (amụrụ 1976) bụ onye na-ese ihe nwanyị America nke oge a sitere na agbụrụ Africa America na South Asia bi na Baltimore, Maryland .   Ahuja na-emepụta ọrụ nke eserese onwe onye na-ejikọta isiokwu akụkọ ifo na akụkọ ifo na njirimara onwe onye. 

## Ndụ mbido
A mụrụ Mequitta Ahuja na Grand Rapids, Michigan nye nna India na nne onye America America, sitere na New Delhi na Cincinnati n'otu n'otu. Ahuja tolitere n'ime obodo ndị ọcha na Connecticut, na enwechaghị mmekọrịta ya na obodo na omenala ndị America America. Nzụlite ya na gburugburu ebe a bụ isiokwu a na-ahụkarị na ọrụ ya.   

Ahuja nwetara BA ya na kọleji Hampshire dị na Amherst, Massachusetts na 1998, yana MFA ya na Mahadum Illinois na Chicago na 2003, ebe onye omenkà nke oge a Kerry James Marshall duziri ya. 

## Ọrụ na ọrụ
N'afọ 2007, na ngosi ngosi mbụ nke Ahuja na obodo New York, onye nkatọ nka nka New York Times Holland Cotter kwuru banyere ọrụ Ahuja, "N'izo aka n'ọdịdị onye na-ese ihe n'Afrika-American na East India, foto ndị a na-atụgharị oke ka ọ bụrụ ọnọdụ ọchịchị". Ihe nka Ahuja na-enyocha ihe gbasara ọha mmadụ dịka agbụrụ, okike, na njirimara site na usoro eserese onwe . Iji mepụta eserese ya, Ahuja na-adabere na usoro nzọụkwụ atọ nke gụnyere ịrụ ọrụ, foto, na ịse / eserese. Ahuja na-amalite site n'ịmepụta usoro ngosi nke gụnyere uwe, ihe nkwado, na poses. Site n'enyemaka nke ihe mkpuchi dịpụrụ adịpụ, ọ na-ese foto ihe ngosi ya wee dekọọ ha dị ka " ihe na-abụghị akwụkwọ akụkọ ." N'ikpeazụ, ọ na-etinye foto ndị a n'ime ihe o chepụtara, na-eme ka ọ pụta ìhè n'onwe ya.

Ahuja atụlewo ihe osise ya dị ka nwanyị,  na-ezo aka na nkwenye siri ike, ọnụnọ ụmụ nwanyị zuru oke na-arụ ọrụ ya, na-atụgharịkwa ugboro ugboro na mgbọrọgwụ African American na South Asia na nleba anya n'ihe gbasara njirimara. Ọ na-ekwu na site na nka ya, "Echere m na m nwere ike inwe mmekọrịta na otu ndị a na nke m".  Na 2007, Ahuja gụnyere na ihe ngosi *Global Feminisms* na Brooklyn Museum of Art,  na na 2009 ihe osise ya "Dream Region", na-egosipụta njirimara ya dị iche iche, gosipụtara dị ka mkpuchi nke akwụkwọ *War Baby / Love Child: Ngwakọta agbụrụ Eshia American Art* .  

Ahuja na-esekarị ihe banyere ọrụ nke ya, gbasara eserese ndị dara ada dị ka ohere, nke "na-enye ohere maka ụdị ihe ị na-enweghị ike ịhazi."  Ahuja nwekwara mmasị na usoro ahụ, na-ewu elu site na eserese, stampụ iji mepụta elu dị mgbagwoju anya. "Echere m na ala dị ka oghere omenala. Kama ịmalite na ibe dị larịị, m na-amalite ya na oyi akwa a nke mere na mgbe m na-ewu ihe oyiyi m, ọ bụ n'ezie mgba n'etiti ọnụ ọgụgụ na N'ikpeazụ, e nwere ihe a agbakwunyere, stitched ọnụ n'etiti ha Echere m na anyị, dị ka ndị na-ese ihe, nwere ohere ugbu a iji nweta ihe anyị chọrọ n'akụkọ ihe mere eme." 
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Na 2008, Ahuja kere *Tress IV*, na ebumnuche iji gbanwee onyinyo nke ntutu isi nke Afrika America na "ohere nke ohere okike na-enweghị ngwụcha ma ọ bụ ohere mmepụta." Ahuja kwenyere na a na-ejikarị ntutu isi nke ndị America na-eme ihe na "akụkọ nke onwe na omenala." Site na ikwubiga okwu ókè banyere ntutu isi nke African American, ọ na-egosi uru ntutu dị na ndụ ndị ojii na otú ha na-esi na-agbanwe mgbe nile ụkpụrụ nke ịma mma, na-apụ na Eurocentric karịa echiche Afrocentric nke ịma mma.  Nchegbu ya abụọ bụ isi n'ime oge a bụ "mmepụta onwe ya na nnochi anya onwe ya." 

Ahuja sonyere na ọtụtụ ihe ngosi ndị ọzọ site na 2015 na 2016, gụnyere ihe ngosi na Tiwani Contemporary na London, England, Baltimore Museum of Art na Maryland, Grand Rapids Art Museum na Michigan, na Silber Gallery na Goucher College na Towson, MD. Ihe ngosi Tiwani Contemporary, nke akpọrọ Mythopoeia, kpọkọtara ndị omenkà anọ si gburugburu ụwa iji nyochaa isiokwu akụkọ ifo na nka dịka ụzọ isi ghọta ụwa anyị na ibuli omenala elu. Maka ihe ngosi a, Ahuja weputara usoro ihe onyonyo ohuru nke onwe dika 'The Journeyman', nke jiri njirimara ya "automythography" nyochaa onye na-ese ihe dika ma archetype na onye ọ bụla. 

Ahuja sonyere na ihe ngosi 2016 *Champagne Life* na Saatchi Gallery, na London, England. Ụfọdụ katọrọ ihe ngosi ahụ maka oke nwanyị na-enweghị isi na enweghị njikọ karịa inwe ndị na-ese ihe niile nke nwanyị, ọ bụ ezie na a na-eto ihe osise ahụ n'onwe ya maka ịdị elu ya.   

Na 2017 ọrụ Ahuja bụ akụkụ nke ọtụtụ ihe ngosi, gụnyere *Lucid Dreams na Distant Vision* na Asia Society na New York, nke nyochara ọrụ nke ndị nka nke South Asia diaspora.  *Obodo nke nka: Ịchọta American Art Ugbu a* na Dixon Gallery na Gardens na Memphis, Tennessee gosikwara ọrụ Ahuja na 2017, yana *Shifting:* *African-American Women Artists and Power of their Gaze* at the University of Maryland 's David C. Driskell Center, *The* *Reflection in the Sword of Holofernes* na Galveston Artist Residency na Galveston, Texas, nke lekwasịrị anya na "na-ekwu eziokwu gị n'ụzọ doro anya ị maara otú,"  na *State of Art: Ịchọta American Art Ugbu a.* na Frist Center for Visual Arts na Nashville, Tennessee.

Ahuja's *Xpect* bidoro na 2020 na *Riffs na Mmekọrịta: Ndị nka America America na ọdịnala European Modernist* na mkpokọta Phillips .  Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nwetara ọmụmụ ihe maka ọrụ ahụ.

Na 2021, Ahuja bụ otu n'ime ndị na-ese ihe anọ gosipụtara na ngosi *All Due Respect* na Baltimore Museum of Art, yana LaToya M. Hobbs, Lauren Frances Adams, na Cindy Cheng. Ọrụ Ahuja na ihe ngosi a na-enyocha isiokwu nke iru újú na nlekọta. 

## Nchịkọta ahọpụtara

* Ụlọ ọrụ nka nke Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
* Mkpokọta Phillips, Washington, DC

## Ntụaka
site na usoro eserese onwe . Iji mepụta eserese ya, Ahuja na-adabere na usoro nzọụkwụ atọ nke gụnyere ịrụ ọrụ, foto, na ịse / eserese. Ahuja na-amalite site naMaka ihe ngosi a, Ahuja weputara usoro ihe onyonyo ohuru nke onwe dika 'The Journeyman agụnyere ịrụ ọrụ, foto, na ịse / eserese. Ahuja na-
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