Sea Change – 2016 – vinyl print – 6ft x 80 ft (installation view at Project Row Houses, photo credit: Alex Barber) Using landscape photography, environmental research, and source texts including Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Sea Change was a speculative commentary on climate change, the tourism industry, environmental justice and interrelated economies, using the 2014 sargassum seaweed invasion of Galveston, the Caribbean and the Western coast of Africa as a research point of departure.
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Sea Change – 2016 – vinyl print – 6ft x 80 ft (installation view at Project Row Houses, photo credit: Alex Barber)
Using landscape photography, environmental research, and source texts including Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Sea Change was a speculative commentary on climate change, the tourism industry, environmental justice and interrelated economies, using the 2014 sargassum seaweed invasion of Galveston, the Caribbean and the Western coast of Africa as a research point of departure.
Sea Change – 2016 - laser print on transparency – dimensions various (text installation at Project Row Houses, photo credit: Alex Barber)
Using landscape photography, environmental research, and source texts including Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Sea Change was a speculative commentary on climate change, the tourism industry, environmental justice and interrelated economies, using the 2014 sargassum seaweed invasion of Galveston, the Caribbean and the Western coast of Africa as a research point of departure.
Drape Panorama 02 - digital photo print, wood, 2017, 50.75 x 12.5 x 5.5 inches (installation at DiverseWorks, Houston TX, photo credit: Paul Hester
Reprise - digitally printed vinyl, 2017, 96 x 48 inches (installation at DiverseWorks, Houston TX, photo credit: Paul Hester
Drape No. 4 - ink on paper, 2016, 12 x 9 inches
Fiction Diptych (Drape No. 2) - graphite on paper, 2016, 12 x 9 inches
What Remains (01) - digital photo print, 2015, 12 x 9 inches
A Living Index (03): archival inkjet print, 2015, 14 x 11 inches
A Living Index is an experimental index of the Elsewhere Living Library collection in Greensboro, NC - The index consists of keywords, text excerpts, image reproductions, and photographsof found objects. It is an investigation of the American imagination and ideologies across different slices of time as evidenced in the collection. In addition to the index document, the projectincluded a reading group and photographs of temporary interventions in the library archive.
A Living Index (publication excerpt): laser print on paper, 2015, bound book dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 inches
A Living Index is an experimental index of the Elsewhere Living Library collection in Greensboro, NC - The index consists of keywords, text excerpts, image reproductions, and photographsof found objects. It is an investigation of the American imagination and ideologies across different slices of time as evidenced in the collection. In addition to the index document, the projectincluded a reading group and photographs of temporary interventions in the library archive.
Louisiana Water – digital video (still) – 2013
Louisiana Water (working title) is an experimental short film co-created with filmmaker and anthropologist Hadeel Assali, exploring parallel family histories and geopolitical intersections through movement and performance. This short film was originally shot in January 2013 in Cameron, Louisiana and is a work in progress.
Gulf Water (02) (image detail) – laser print, ink, collage on vellum – 15 x 13 in. – 2014
Regina Agu | [email protected] |www.reginaagu.com Residencies & Awards 2017 | Lawndale Artist Studio Program 2017-2018 | Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX 2017 | Artadia Awardee - Houston 2016 | SEED Grant for Alabama Song (with Gabriel Martinez) | The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 2016 | Open Sessions 2016-2017 | The Drawing Center | New York City, NY 2015 | Associate Artist in Residence | 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 (with Gabriel Martinez) | Houston, TX 2012 | Individual Artist Grant - Emerging | Houston Arts Alliance | Houston, TX 2012 | Creative Capital Master Class | Artist Cohort led by Lillian Warren | Houston, TX 2011 | Associate Artist in Residence | Master Artist Rick Lowe | Atlantic Center for the Arts |
New Smyrna Beach, FL 2011 | Creative Capital PDP Artist Cohort | DW(2) DiverseWorks | Houston, TX 2011 | Citywide 2011 - 2nd prize | Museum of Fine Arts Houston (5A) | Houston, TX 2010 | Artist in Residence - “School of Latitudes” | labotanica | Houston, TX Solo Exhibitions 2013 | Nerve Endings | Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX 2013 | ...mistress. | Box 13 | Houston, TX 2013 | An Echo, A Trace | Darke Gallery | Houston, TX 2012 | Visible Unseen | Fresh Arts | Houston, TX Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances 2017 | Where Do We Stand? | curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway | The Drawing Center |
New York City, NY 2017 | into the midst of things | curated by Rachel Cook | DiverseWorks, Houston, TX 2017 | How Do I Say Her Name? | curated by Ann Johnson | Art League Houston, TX 2016 | Cartography of Ghosts (Open Sessions 9) | curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway | The Drawing Center
| New York City, NY 2016 | Friendly Fire | Station Museum | Houston, TX 2016 | Round 45: Local Impact | Project Row Houses | Houston, TX 2016 | Southern Constellations | curated by Victoria Reis and Tim Doud | American University Museum,
Katzen Arts Center | Washington, DC 2015 | Southern Constellations at the Allcott Gallery | curated by Jennie Carlisle and Jina Valentine | UNC-CH |
Chapel Hill, NC 2015 | 12 Minutes Max | DiverseWorks | Houston, TX 2014 | Organized Love: Ideas on Non-Violence | curated by Danielle Burns | The African American Library at
the Gregory School | Houston, TX 2014 | Adding a Beat: Hirsch Library Project | organized by Hanna Yoo | Museum of Fine Arts Houston |
Houston, TX
2014 | Fig Pudding Performs! | DiverseWorks | Houston, TX 2013 | I am him | curated by Aesha Lee | Community Artists' Collective | Houston, TX 2013 | palimpsest | curated by William Cordova | Carol Jazzar Contemporary | Miami, FL 2013 | do it: Houston | organized by Max Fields and Olivia Junell | Alabama Song | Houston,TX 2013 | Coming Through The Gap In the Mountain on an Elephant: A New Worlds Fair | organized by Robert Pruitt
|Texas Southern University Museum | Houston, TX 2013 | in my hair | curated by Nicole Vlado and Tara Donahue | Medialia Gallery | New York, NY 2012 | Girlband | organized by Sandy Ewen | 14 Pews and Super Happy Fun Land | Houston, TX 2012 | Damp Earth | Performance piece broadcast live online - Low Lives 4 | curated by Jorge Rojas 2011 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A Response by African-American Artists | curated by David Kirkland|
Mountain View College | Dallas, TX 2011 | Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet |organized by Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus| New
Museum | New York, NY 2011 | Communograph (Round 35) | curated by Ashley Hunt | Project Row Houses | Houston, TX 2011 | Nostalgia for the Living (Round 35) | Project Row Houses | Houston, TX 2011 | What's the New News | curated by Nathaniel Donnett | Community Artists' Collective |
Houston, TX 2011 | Museum of Fine Arts Houston (5-A) Citywide 2011 | TSU Museum and Community Artists'
Collective|Houston, TX 2011 | Missing/Missed | curated by Scott Henstrand | Textile Arts Center | New York, NY 2010 | Eyes Turned Skyward | curated by Danielle Burns | Houston Museum of African American
Culture | Houston, TX 2010 | Extended Drawing | curated by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud | labotanica | Houston, TX 2010 | Black Artist as Activist | curated by Danny Simmons and Laurel Adams | Corridor Gallery |
New York, NY Selected Publications (Author) 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. "Index, With and for: 'Black Mo'nin',' by Fred Moten," Book Club Book (Future Plan and Program, Project Row Houses, Houston, 2011). Talks/Readings/Presentations 2017 | Guest lecturer, The Archival Impulse | University of Houston School of Arts | Houston, TX 2016 | Guest lecturer, Collaboration Among the Arts | University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center
for the Arts | Houston, TX 2016 | Panelist, Exploring Experimental Practice and Resources in Southern Cities |American University Museum at
the Katzen Arts Center | Washington, DC 2016 | Panelist, To Be an Artist |Prairie View A&M University Department of Art | Prairie View, TX 2016 | Visiting Lecturer, Studio VU Lecture Series | Vanderbilt University Department of Art |
Nashville, TN
2015 | Panelist, Alt.Models - Next Generation Alternative Spaces | Leadership in the Arts Summit | University of Houston | Houston, TX
2015 | Organizer and Presenter, Celebrating Amiri Baraka with Akua Holt and Dr. Donna Kilgore | The African American Library at the Gregory School | Houston, TX
2014 | Artist Talk, Regina Agu: Face2Facebook | hosted online by Prof. Moyo Okediji, University of Austin, TX
2014 | Panelist, Weaving a Web of Opportunities to Support Individual Artists in your Community | Grantmakers in the Arts Conference | DiverseWorks | Houston, TX
2014 | Panelist, Intimate and Foreign | Art League Houston | Houston, TX 2013 | Artist Talk, Nerve Endings | Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX 2013 | Artist Talk, An Echo, A Trace | Darke Gallery | Houston, TX 2013 | Moderator, Post-show discussion of “Miriam” with Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili | DiverseWorks
at Barnevelder M.A.C. | Houston, TX 2012 | Artist Talk, SPEAKeasy | Fresh Arts | Houston, TX 2012 | Organizer and Moderator, Entrepreneurship in the Third Ward with Michelle Barnes | Project Row Houses|
Houston, TX 2011 | Artist Talk, Round 35 | Project Row Houses | Houston, TX 2011 | Public Reading, Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet | New Museum | New York, NY 2011 | Public Reading, Book Club Book | Project Row Houses | Houston, TX Related Experience 2017-current | Board of Directors, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX 2014-current | Co-director, Alabama Song, Houston, TX 2014-2015 | Artist Board President, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Education 2003 | Cornell University | BS Policy Analysis and Management
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