Studio with Gazing Ball (_DSF2753), 2024

Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and related zine and ephemera. He is known for his New York portrait series in the early 2000s, later moving into studio-based projects that question and complicate questions of authorship, the visualzation of race and sexuality, and the structures of the photographic medium. His work is international collections including the Getty, LACMA, Guggenheim, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Stedelijk, Tate Modern, and Victoria & Albert Museum among others. Museum surveys have been presented at CAM St. Louis and Nottingham Contemporary, and a comprehensive hybrid artist-book and monograph of the project “Dark Room A - Z,” was published by Aperture in Fall 2024. His most recent body of work has been exhibited in“TRANCE” at Bortolami Gallery in New York, the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre Brazil, and “POSITIONER”at Vielmetter Los Angeles. Sepuya is an Associate Professor in Visual Arts at UC San Diego.