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Low Residency MFA | New Artist Society Merit Scholarship
Cornell University
B.S. Policy Analysis and Management | Cornell Tradition Fellowship
Performances
2025 | Shore|Lines. Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2019 | Passage. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. Curated by Katie Pfohl.
2016 | Sea Change (Round 45: Local Impact). Project Row Houses, Houston, TX. Curated by Ryan N. Dennis.
2013 | Nerve Endings. Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. Curated by Dennis Nance.
2013 | ...mistress. Box 13, Houston, TX.
2013 | An Echo, A Trace. Darke Gallery, Houston, TX.
2012 | Visible Unseen. Fresh Arts, Houston, TX.
2011 | Nostalgia for the Living (Round 35). Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
2010 | Extended Drawing. labotanica, Houston, TX. Curated by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud.
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024 | Waterways. Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, Aurora, IL. Curated by Doug Stapleton and Natasha Ritsma.
2023 | Dreaming of a Future. ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jeffreen Hayes.
2023 | Conflicts of Freedom. Povos, Chicago, IL. Curated by blackpuffin.
2023 | LandFORMS. EXPO Chicago, presented by Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. Two-person show, curated by Mariela Acuna.
2021 | Still Life. The Franklin, Chicago, IL.
2021 | In Place of an Index. Fotofest, Houston, TX. Curated by Max Fields. Presented in Texas Biennial : A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon (curated by Ryan N. Dennis and Evan Garza).
2021 | Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction. Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Jordan Amirkhani.
2019 | New Monuments for New Cities. High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, NY.
2019 | Show Me Your Shelves. The African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston, TX. Organized by Contemporary & (Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba).
2018 | Dimensions of Citizenship: Form N-X00: New Forms for Citizenship (online). 2018 U.S. Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale. Selected by Iker Gil.
2018 | Silos. Art League Houston, TX. Curated by Jeffreen Hayes.
2018 | In Real Life: 2018 Artist Studio Program Exhibition. Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. Curated by Lauren Ross.
2017 | Where Do We Stand?. The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway.
2017 | into the midst of things. DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. Three-person show, curated by Rachel Cook.
2016 | Cartography of Ghosts (Open Sessions 9). The Drawing Center | New York, NY. Curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway.
2016 | Friendly Fire. Station Museum, Houston, TX.
2016 | Southern Constellations. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC. Curated by Victoria Reis and Tim Doud.
2014 | Organized Love: Ideas on Non-Violence. The African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston, TX. Curated by Danielle Burns.
2013 | Coming Through The Gap In the Mountain on an Elephant: A New Worlds Fair. Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX. Organized by Robert Pruitt
2011 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A Response by African-American Artists. Mountain View College, Dallas, TX. Curated by David Kirkland.
2011 | Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet. New Museum, New York, NY. Organized by Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus.
2011 | Communograph (Round 35). Project Row Houses, Houston, TX. Curated by Ashley Hunt.
Performances and Public Readings (selected)
2026 | Poems for Rainwater/Los Poemas para la Lluvia. Parque Primavera, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2016 | MAY (Martinez, Agu, Yates) at Lean, Bleak. Alabama Song, Houston, TX.
2015 | 12 Minutes Max: A Guided Meditation. DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
2015 | They, Who Sound. Avant Garden, Houston, TX.
2014 | Adding a Beat: Hirsch Library Project. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. Organized by Hanna Yoo.
2014 | Fig Pudding Performs!. DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
2013 | Celebration Mix. University Museum at Texas Southern University. Organized by Robert Pruitt.
2012 | Girlband. 14 Pews and Super Happy Fun Land, Houston, TX.
2012 | Damp Earth. Performance broadcast live online - Low Lives 4. Curated by Jorge Rojas.
2011 | “Regina Agu: With and for: “Black Mo'nin',” by Fred Moten.” Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet. New Museum, New York, NY and Book Club Book, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
(selected)
2025 | Creative Impact Award. United States Artists, supported by the Joyce Foundation.
2025 | Creative Accelerator Fund grantee. Illinois Arts Council.
2025 | Artist in Residence. Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE.
2025 | Artist Cohort. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Paris, France.
2023 | Joyce Award winner with Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2022 | Artist in Residence. Nawat-Fes, Fes, Morocco.
2022 | Artist in Residence, Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Radicle studio resident. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2019 | Artist in Residence. A Studio In The Woods, New Orleans, LA.
2018 | Artist in Residence in partnership with For Freedoms. Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA.
2018 | Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant. Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
2018 | KGMCA-PRH Fellowship for A Psychogeography of Emancipation Park. University of Houston - Center for Arts and Social Engagement and The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts + Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
2017 | Lawndale Artist Studio Program 2017-2018. Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX.
2017 | Artadia Award - Houston.
2016 | SEED Grant for Alabama Song, Houston, TX. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
2016 | Open Sessions 2016-2017. The Drawing Center, New York City, NY.
2015 | Associate Artist in Residence with Master Artist Julie Ezelle Patton. Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
2015 | Southern Constellations Fellow and Artist-in-residence. Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC.
2014 | The Idea Fund Grant for Friends of Angela Davis Park, Houston, TX.
2012 | Individual Artist Grant - Emerging. Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
2011 | Associate Artist in Residence - Master Artist Rick Lowe. Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
2010 | Artist in residence - School of Latitudes. labotanica, Houston, TX.
2022 | Co-organizer, “Listening In, Letting Go: Shoop Collective.” Arabic Language Institute in Fes (ALIF) Riad, Fes, Morocco and American Arts Center, Casablanca, Morocco.
2019 | Organizer. Passage sound performance by Megan Easley. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
2017 | Co-organizer, Situation Mixtape. DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
2017 | Organizer and Artist Talk. “Sea Change with Dr. Jens Figlus.” Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX.
2015 | Organizer. The Undercommons Reading Group. Houston, TX.
2015 | Organizer. WOC Reading Group for A Living Index. Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC.
2014 | Co-founder. paratext. Houston, TX.
2014 | Co-organizer. Friends of Angela Davis Park. Houston, TX.
2013 | Founder. WOC Reading Group, Houston, TX.
2013 | Co-director and co-organizer. Alabama Song, Houston, TX (2013-2017).
(selected)
2026 | Visiting Artist. “Water, Water Everywhere?” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2026 | Guest Critic. “Art Theory Practice.” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
2025 | Guest Presenter. “Pool V Workshop.” Milwaukee, WI.
2025 | Lecture. “Lecture in Photography: Shore|Lines.” Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2024 | “Art, Activism, Policy, Power: Conveying Migration Stories.” Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2023 | Seminar. “Space Place and Humanities Seminar Series: Passage.” Macalester College. St. Paul, MN.
2022 | Artist Talk. “To Ponder: Bethany Collins and Regina Agu.” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2021 | Artist Talk (online). “Regina Agu in conversation with Nora N. Khan.” Fotofest.
2021 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Graduate Seminar (online). “Archiving Poetics.” University of Houston.
2021 | Panelist. “Alternate Assembly, Curatorial Forum Presents: Weathering Regional Landscapes.” Hosted by EXPO CHICAGO and ICI (Independent Curators International).
2020 | Panelist. “Towards a Fossil-Free Culture.” Common Field Convening (online).
2020 | Artist Talk. “Passage.” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
2019 | Podcast Guest. “Expanding Monuments with Regina Agu; New Monuments for New Cities Part 5.” Monument Lab.
2018 | Lecture. “KGMCA-PRH Fellowship: A Psychogeography of Emancipation Park.” University of Houston, Houston, TX.
2018 | Conference presentation. “A Psychogeography of Emancipation Park.” ASAP/10 Conference, hosted by the New Orleans Center For The Gulf South at Tulane University and Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA.
2018 | Lecture. “Letters to Akilah.” Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX.
2018 | Presenter, “Time Lapse: Uncarcerating the Imagination.” CounterCurrent Festival, presented by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX.
2018 | Panelist. “The Artist as Cultural Producer.” MATCH Houston, sponsored by Center for Art & Social Engagement at the University of Houston and Fotofest, Houston, TX.
2017 | Visiting Artist, Senior Studio. Rice University, Houston, TX.
2017 | Visiting Artist. “The Archival Impulse.” IART, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
2016 | Visiting Artist Lecture. “Art of the 21st Century and its Future.” Rice University, Houston, TX.
2016 | Visiting Artist Lecture. “Collaboration Among the Arts.” University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX.
2016 | Visiting Artist Lecture. “Studio VU Lecture Series.” Vanderbilt University Department of Art, Nashville, TN.
2016 | Artist Talk. “Sea Change (Round 45).” Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
2016 | Panelist. “Exploring Experimental Practice and Resources in Southern Cities.” American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2015 | Panelist. “Alt.Models - Next Generation Alternative Spaces.” Leadership in the Arts Summit, University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Agu, Regina. “Reprise,” Haunt Journal of Art (University of California, Irvine, CA, 2018).
Agu, Regina. A Living Index (paratext, Houston, 2015).
Agu, Regina. "Notes on Gumbo," Sugar and Rice, Issue 4: Road Trips (Houston, TX, 2015).
Agu, Regina. On | Off. Book Machine Houston (onestar press, Paris, 2014).
Agu, Regina. "Visible Unseen," Nyx, a nocturnal, Issue 8: Skin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2013).
Agu, Regina (co-author). “Ideas/Thoughts/Actions/Ramblings.” Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL. 2011. Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY, 2012.
Agu, Regina. "Index, With and for: 'Black Mo'nin',' by Fred Moten," Book Club Book (Future Plan and Program, Project Row Houses, Houston, 2011).
2025 | Susan Aurinko, “Deep Waters: A Review of Regina Agu at MoCP.” Newcity Art.
2023 | “Art 50 2023: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists.” Newcity Art.
2023 | Janice Bond, “From Collaboration to Active Empowerment: Fueling Houston's Flourishing Civic Art Landscape.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Winter/Spring 2024, Issue 36.1.
2022 | Allison K. Young, “Visuality and the Plantationocene: The Panoramas of Regina Agu.” Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2022, Issue 8.1.
2020 | Allison K. Young, "Between Two Gulfs: Ecological Politics and Black Geographies in the Work of Regina Agu." IRAA (International Review of African American Art), Volume 29. No. 4.
2020 | Zachary Fine, “Swampland Sublime: The Landscapes of Louisiana.” New York Review of Books.
2019 | Edited by Katie Pfohl, "Acadia Revisited: Regina Agu in conversation with Ryan N. Dennis.” Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Yale University Press.
2018 | Catherine D. Anspon, “Houston’s Most Successful Community Experiment.” PaperCity.
2017 | Molly Glentzer, “Regina Agu gets the drift at Project Row Houses.” Houston Chronicle.
Service
2014-2017 | Co-director, Alabama Song, Houston, TX
2014-2015 | Artist Board President/Board of Directors, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2013-2014 | Board of Directors, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
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