Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and as an Associate Professor in Media Arts at UC San Diego. His work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Getty and Guggenheim Museums, LACMA, MoMA, SFMoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum, among others.
Recent exhibitions include solos at Deichtohallen in Hamburg, Germany, Vielmetter in Los Angeles and the Bemis in Omaha, a survey of work from 2006-2018 at CAM St. Louis, and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Exhibitions
Exposure
27 Jan – 5 May 2024
Nottingham Contemporary
ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019
24 Jan – 6 May 2024
International Center of Photography
Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio
25 Nov 2022 – 26 Feb 2023
PHOXXI at Deichtohallen Hamburg
D.R.M.P.
13 May – 18 Jun 2022
55 Walker
A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020
24 Feb – 5 Jun 2022
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Black American Portraits
7 Nov 2021 – 7 Apr 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
13 Jul – 23 Aug 2020
Barbican Centre, London; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; LUMA Foundation, Arles; FOMU, Antwerp
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
19 Oct 2019 – 14 Mar 2020
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
19 Oct 2019 – 14 Mar 2020
Blaffer Art Museum
Once. Again. Photographs in Series
9 Jul – 10 Nov 2019
Getty Museum
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now
4 Jul 2019 – 5 Jan 2020
Guggenheim
2019 Whitney Biennial
17 May – 27 Oct 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
Double Enclosure
14 Sep – 18 Nov 2018
Fotomuseum Amsterdam (FOAM)
Being: New Photography 2018
18 Mar – 19 Aug 2018
MoMA
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
27 Sep 2017 – 21 Jan 2018
New Museum
Evidence of Accumulation
14 Jul – 23 Oct 2011
Studio Museum Harlem
Press
Ravi Ghosh Meet me in the darkroom: Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s 25 years of Queer reflexivity British Journal of Photography Feb 2024Reuben Esien Paul Mpagi Sepuya Lays Bare the Workings of the Studio Frieze Feb 2024Chloe Stead The Top Ten Shows in Europe in 2023 Frieze Dec 2023Evan Moffitt Paul Sepuya holds a mirror up to the medium, in conversation with Ryan McNamara Document Nov 2023Matthieu Jacquet Du studio photo à la backroom, comment Paul Mpagi Sepuya révèle le caché Numéro Jul 2023Justin Torres Here is a portrait of an L.A. artist having an intimate conversation among friends Los Angeles Times Mar 2023Adam Smith-Perez In the Studio: Paul Mpagi Sepuya on portraiture, queer space, and zinemaking art21 Sep 2022John Vincler What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now The New York Times Jun 2022Aindrea Emelife All Seeing Eye Wallpaper* Sep 2021Ashton Cooper Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Vielmetter Los Angeles Artforum, Vol. 59 Sep 2020Eddie Silva Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Paul Mpagi Sepuya CAM St. Louis May 2020Lanre Bakare A New Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude The Guardian Apr 2020Rahel Aima Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis 17 May – 18 August Art Review Oct 2019Andrea K. Scott Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mines the Queer History of the Portrait Studio The New Yorker Mar 2019Martha Schwendener New York Art Galleries: What To See Right Now - Paul Mpagi Sepuya The New York Times Mar 2019David Velasco Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya Artforum Mar 2019Ariel Goldberg In The Room Art in America Apr 2018Arthur Lubow What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMa Says The New York Times Mar 2018Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi Paul Mpagi Sepuya at team (bungalow) Contemporary Art Review LA Feb 2018Barry Schwabsky Playing with Mirrors: Two artists push the limits of what cameras can do The Nation May 2017Philip Griffith Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Figures, Grounds and Studies The Brooklyn Rail Mar 2017Ian Bourland Critic’s Pick: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Yancey Richardson Artforum Mar 2017David Everett Howe The Expanded Photograph ArtReview May 2014Wayne Koestenbaum My 1980s and Other Essays Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2013Joseph Akel 500 Words: Paul Mpagi Sepuya Artforum May 2012Holland Cotter Art in Review – 50 Artists Photograph the Future The New York Times May 2010Publications
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Dark Room A–Z
Aperture
2024
ORIFICE + APERTURE
TBW Books
2022
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Aperture
2020
