Ahuja was profiled as an "Artist to Watch" in the February edition of ARTnews, and over the years she has been the recipient of multiple awards for her art, including the Tiffany Foundation Award in 2011, and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Grant. In 2018 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which has been helping select artists expand their practice for nearly a century. Exhibitions Early in her career, Ahuja's exhibition, Myth and Memory: Dancing on the Hide of Shere Khan, was featured in MCA Chicago's UBS 12X12: New Artists/New Work, in November 2005. As with much of her work, the exhibition dealt with human identity, informed by her own experience as a multiracial woman. In 2008 Ahuja opened her solo exhibition, Flowback, at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. Flowback dealt with the varying relationships between black women and their hair, through textured and patterned crayon drawings of black women's hair flowing out from their tilted back heads. The show also included a piece titled Loop, in which two women's hair is woven together in a net of straight and curly locks, with highlights and bursts of light. Ahuja was not new to solo exhibitions in 2008. She had a solo show at BravinLee Programs in New York, titled Encounters, in the spring of 2007. In 2009 she brought a new body of work to BravinLee Programs, this one titled Automythography I. During this time, Ahuja was ranked a finalist in the 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. The portrait she submitted, titled Repunzel, features the upended head of a black woman with curly hair flowing downward and severed into sections by two thin white lines. The piece was drawn in waxy chalk on paper by Ahuja in 2008, the same year as her Flowback solo exhibition. Following the exhibition of Automythography I, Ahuja brought a show she called Automythography II to Arthouse at The Jones Center in Austin, TX. The show ran from October 24, 2009 through January 2, 2010. Not long after that, Ajuha gained representation in Europe at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, in Paris, France, with a show that began in April 2010 Later in 2010, Ahuja was an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, located in New York city. The residency culminated in the exhibition, Usable Pasts, which