The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) presents Regina Agu: Shore|Lines from January 23, 2024 – May 18, 2024.

Drawing on methods of field work and landscape photography, Agu examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging. This exhibition presents an original commission, large-scale panoramic installation at MoCP as part of an exploration of placemaking and community memory—tracing sites and legacies of historical Black North American migration through the medium and expansive tradition of the panoramic form.

Regina Agu: Shore|Lines brings together discourses of Black geographies, landscape photography, and site-specific land histories, using the methodology of landscape panorama as a format for relating ideas and themes of Black cultural memory connected to place. The exhibition includes an artist book that Agu refers to as a “field guide,” connecting her Midwest and Gulf South experiences of the landscapes.

Shore|Lines is curated by Associate Curator Asha Iman Veal and generously supported by The Joyce Foundation Joyce Award to Regina Agu and MoCP, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.