Lecture in Photography: Regina Agu & Evening of Performance

About The Event

Multidisciplinary artist Regina Agu will present on Shore|Lines, her large-scale panoramic installation and exhibition that explores community memory within Black Midwestern lakeside communities, tracing legacies of historical migration from the Gulf South region to the Great Lakes. Using methods of photography, archival research, and oral history, her work examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging.  

Join MoCP for an evening of original performances from artists Veronica Anne Salinas, Andres Luis Hernandez, and Lola Ayisha Ogbara, focusing on landscape ecologies, soundwalks, and deep listening practice.

Regina Agu (American, b. Houston) is a visual artist, writer, and researcher based in Chicago, IL. Agu
was raised between the United States, the Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, and Switzerland.
Her interdisciplinary practice includes conceptual and material inquiries into memory, history,
representation, and Black geographies. Her work has been exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art,
New Museum, The Drawing Center, the High Line, Project Row Houses, FotoFest, the American
University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, among other venues. Agu is a 2023 Joyce Award winner
with the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Agu has received an
Artadia Houston award, grants from Houston Arts Alliance, The Idea Fund, a SEED grant from The
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Center for Art and Social Engagement at the Kathrine G.
McGovern College of the Arts and Project Row Houses fellowship at the University of Houston for her
research project Friends of Emancipation Park. Agu holds a BS from Cornell University and an MFA from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.