Insemination, 84"X52", Enamel on Paper, 2007

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