Recent News


Article
Visuality and the Plantationocene: The Panoramas of Regina Agu, by Allison K. Young. Feature article in  Spring 2022 (8.1) issue of Panorama, Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art
                                                              

Residency
2022 Radicle artist-in residence, Jackman Goldwasser Residency | Hyde Park Art Center | January - December 2022
                                                                                                          
Group Exhibition
Still Life | The Franklin | organized by Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan | October 16, 2021 - March 12, 2022


Artist Talk
Artist Talk: Regina Agu in conversation with Nora N. Khan |  presented by Fotofest | October 27, 2021


Group Exhibition
In Place of an Index | Fotofest, presented with the 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon | co-curated by Max Fields, with TX Biennial curators Ryan N. Dennis and Evan Garza | September 2 – November 13, 2021

Group Exhibition
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction | curated by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani | Atlanta Contemporary | February 18 – August 1, 2021


Panel/Artist Talk
EXPO CHICAGO and ICI (Independent Curators International) host Alternate Assembly, Curatorial Forum Presents: Weathering Regional Landscapes | January 21, 2021

Solo Exhibition
Passage | solo show curated by Katie Pfohl | New Orleans Museum of Art | November 22, 2019 - February 9, 2020


Regina Agu was born in Houston, TX and raised between the United States, Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, and Switzerland. She relocated to Chicago at the beginning of 2020, where she now lives and works. Her work has been included in exhibitions, public readings, publications, and performances internationally. Agu was a 2022 Radicle artist-in-residence in the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center. Recent exhibitions include the 2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction, and the 2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon. Her first solo museum show, Passage, was presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art (2019-2020). Her work has been supported by an Artadia Houston award, grants from Houston Arts Alliance, The Idea Fund, and the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses fellowship at the University of Houston for her research project A Psychogeography of Emancipation Park. She has attended residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans through a partnership with For Freedoms, A Studio in the Woods, Open Sessions at The Drawing Center in NYC, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Lawndale Artist Studio Program, among others. From 2014-2017, Agu was the co-director of Alabama Song, a collaboratively-run art space in Third Ward, Houston, which received a 2016 SEED grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Agu is the founder of the Houston-based WOC Reading Group, and her other collaborative projects include Friends of Angela Davis Park. Agu holds a BS from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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For inquiries, email me at reginaagu.studio at gmail.com.