Regina Mamou was born in the Detroit metropolitan area to an Iraqi father and American mother. She is a visual artist working in photography and video who is based in Chicago. In 2009 she received a 15-month Fulbright Fellowship to Jordan to explore navigational methods and memory in Amman. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent projects include an exhibition that Mamou co-curated with Scott Patrick Wiener at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies. She has exhibited her work at Makan Art Space in Amman, Jordan and Action Field Kodra's 11th Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece. Regina is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Museum Education and has recently been a lecturer on an AIC travel program to Cuba.