Alexandria Eregbu

Alexandria Eregbu, also known as FINDING IJEOMA, is a curator and interdisciplinary practitioner working at the intersections of art and music. 

As a visual artist her artwork engages a combination of archival images, symbols, proverbs, and folklore to make real the continuum of everyday practice in African-American existence. She creates textiles, paintings, sculpture, and performances to bridge nature, design, healing, and ecology. She engages materials like beads, indigo, cowrie shells, wood, and feathers and processes like embroidery, appliqué, natural dyeing, drawing and quilting to make meaning with the unseen.

As a DJ, she has performed alongside leading musicians such as, Grammy-nominated Uncle Waffles, Ibibio Sound Machine, Noname, Common, and Sudan Archives. She blends distinct methods of sampling, mixing, and archival audio to amplify femme voices, invoke Black memory, and honor the tradition of storytelling within global dance music culture. Rooted in Chicago’s sonic legacy, her practice embodies a deep reverence for rhythm, ritual, and collective healing. Her current musings include Afrofuturist technologies, ancestral drum patterns, digital archives, and the living word as tools for calling into existence love, liberation, unity, peace, and abundance on a daily, ongoing basis.

Alexandria’s performance work is published in The Black Scholar; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art; and Race and Performance After Repetition. Her practice has been presented in partnership with 3Arts; AMFM L!VE; Field Foundation; the Center for Afrofuturist Studies; Independent Curators International; Villa Albertine; Camargo Foundation; Ateliers Médicis; Center Pompidou; CUNY Center for Humanities; Afrobeats: Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sound; Pioneer Works; John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University; Black Music Lab at Brown University; the School of Art + Design at the University of Oregon; Pacific Northwest College of Art; African Studies Association Conference; The Other Art Fair; and EXPO Chicago. 

She received her Master of Art degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she formerly taught in the department of Fiber & Material Studies (2020-2024). Her curatorial projects include AfroDisco Social Hour (2023-present); How to Build a Queendom (2023); Envisioning Justice (2019); and du monde noir (2012-2018).