Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography. His work is in the collections of the Getty, Guggenheim, Hammer, LACMA, MoMA, SFMoMA, Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney, Stedelijk, and Tate Modern among others. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Art in America, The Nation, and The Guardian, and on the cover of ARTFORUM’s March 2019 issue. Recent museum exhibitions include those at the Barbican Centre, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum, and SFMOMA. A survey of work from 2006-2018 was presented at CAM St. Louis and Blaffer Art Museum in 2019 – 2020. His recent body of work “Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio” has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Vielmetter Los Angeles, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, and a survey exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary. A new artist-book/monograph “Dark Room A – Z” was just published by Aperture in Fall 2024.

 

He is Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego.