Alexandria Eregbu

Alexandria Eregbu is an independent curator and teaching artist whose practice spans across art, music, storytelling, education, and justice in order to consider and produce forums that dignify the humanities. 

As a self-prescribed ‘art-thropologist,’ Alexandria is most invested in acknowledging the ways in which creativity contributes to the wellness and liberation of any people in society. Her work often refers to the medicine found in everyday life and archives with the intention to affirm and uplift Afro, indigenous, and womanist perspectives concerning community, healing, and ecology. Alexandria shares these musings through her platform FINDING IJEOMA, where she makes art and curates visual and time-based media online, in exhibitions, educational programs, and DJ sets in partnership with other artists, businesses, and organizations. Recent curatorial projects include: How To Build A Queendom (2023); Envisioning Justice (2019); Marvelous Freedom/Vigilance of Desire, Revisited (2013).  

Alexandria’s work has appeared on screen in Candyman (2021) directed by Nia DaCosta, in print and on the internet. Her writing has been published by the University of Chicago Press, Sixty Inches From Center, Terremoto Magazine, Candor Arts, and Green Lantern Press. She has presented work in partnership with MacArthur Foundation, Independent Curators International, the College Art Association of America, EXPO Chicago, Soho House, Stony Island Arts Bank, Southside Community Art Center, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the University of Oregon’s Art + Design, the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Poets House, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, Casa Rosada in Salvador, Brazil, the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, among others. 

Alexandria is a 3Arts / Allstate Award recipient in the Teaching Artist category. She earned an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she currently teaches in the Fiber & Material Studies and Writing departments.