Paul Mpagi Sepuya
- 1982
- San Bernardino, CA
- Based in Los Angeles, lives and works in Los Angeles
- 2016
- MFA Photography, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2004
- BFA Photography & Imaging, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
- 2024
- "Reconfiguration of Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (forthcoming)
- 2023
- "Push/Pull," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
- "Lustrer," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
- 2022
- "Daylight Studio/Dark Room Studio," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "144 Powers," Alice Austen House, New York, NY
- "D.R.M.P.," Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
- 2021
- “The Hamilton Public Art Project,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- 2020
- “Drop Scene,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
- "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation <strike>about</strike> around pictures," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "CONDO," Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
- 2019
- “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; traveled to: Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
- “The Conditions,” Team Gallery, New York, NY
- 2018
- DelVaz Projects at Avant Premiere, Palais Royale, Paris, France
- “Double Enclosure,” FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “Dark Room,” Document, Chicago, IL
- 2017
- “Dark Room,” Team (Bungalow), Los Angeles, CA
- “Figures, Grounds and Studies,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
- “Portraits / Positions,” KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
- 2015
- “Figures / Grounds / Studies,” DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
- 2014
- “STUDIO WORK,” Platform Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- 2013
- “RECENT PICTURES / a journal,” Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
- “STUDIO WORK,” Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2011
- “STUDIO WORK,” Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
- 2010
- “Portraits / Positions,” NP Contemporary Art Space, New York, NY
- 2009
- “Alexandria,” Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
- 2007
- “Beloved Object and Amorous Subject,” Envoy Gallery, New York, NY
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
- 2022
- "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," 2-Person show with Alix Marie, PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- 2019
- "The Autopoets," Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
- "Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Team (bungalow), Venice, CA
- 2016
- "MFA Thesis Show #3," New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- "storefront: Public Fiction," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
- "Creative Spaces: The Studio as Inspiration," MFA Boston, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
- 2023
- "Queer-ish," Ruth Chandler Williamson Art Gallery, Scripps College, CA (forthcoming)
- "The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC (forthcoming)
- "Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
- "De Profundis," L’Hotel, Paris, France
- "Not Gay," Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
- "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "Kinship: Photography and Connection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- "Energy: Sparks from the Collection," The Photography Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- "Photography Now," V & A Photography Centre, London, UK
- “In First Person Plural” MACRO, Rome, Italy
- "Rooms of Resonance," Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
- “SEEING STARS: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art,” Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
- “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” Lehman College Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
- “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
- “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era,” Mandeville Gallery at UCSD, San Diego, CA
- “handle with care,” Edouard Merlier Photo Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
- "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today,” Orlando Museum of Art Orlando, FL
- "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- “Long Story Short”, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022
- "Daylight Studio/ Dark Room Studio," PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- 2022-2023
- "Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
- 2022
- "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- "Queering The Narrative," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
- "The Dividual," Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
- “Meia-Noite. Parte 2.” Anozero’21/22 Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Curated by Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira
- "Being Human," PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography Biennial, Melbourne, Australia (Link)
- “Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art,” Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
- “In Dialogue,” The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- “A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
- "This basic asymmetry," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
- "Olvido, Sombra, Nada,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mexico City, Mexico
- “A Través," James Cohan, New York, NY
- 2021
- "Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- “Athens Biennial 7: ECLIPSE,” Athens, Greece
- “Queer/Dialogue,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
- "Between,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
- "Ridykes Cavern of Fine Gay Wine and Videos: Hauser & Werk Bitch: Don’t Be Mad At Us!," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY. Curated by Ridykeulous. (Link)
- "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- “f/stop 9: TRUST/vertrauen”, Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig, Germany
- "Momentum Biennale 11: House of Commons,” Moss, Norway
- “Portals,” NEON Foundation, Athens, Greece
- "Mirror, Mirror," Nathlie Karg, New York, NY
- “Love in the Times of…,” Hotel Europe, Zürich, Switzerland
- "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA", Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- “Remake,” Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (online)
- “Queerness Out T/Here” Tonga Art Advisory, New York, NY. Organized by James Shaeffer
- “Face Forward,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
- "A Beautiful America – Works By Afro-America Artists From The Vermeire-Notebaert Collection," Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (Link)
- “Taken Together: Collaborative Actions in Photography,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- "FOAM," Amsterdam, Netherlands
- “MOMENTUM 11: House of Commons,” MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss, Norway
- 2020-2022
- “Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography,” LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
- 2020
- “Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond,” Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
- “i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times,” ICA Boston, Boston, MA.
- "Rear Window," White Cube, online
- “The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,” Diamond Valley, Alberta, Canada
- “Picture in Picture,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
- “myselves,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Joshua Friedman.
- “Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio,” Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK. Curated by Cédric Fauq with Olivia Aherne.
- “Stand at the Window,” Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Eve Fowler.
- "Constellations,” David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
- “Interiors,” Document, Chicago, IL
- “Intimate Companions,” Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
- “The Artist and the Self,” James Fuentes, New York, NY.
- “Art at Time Like This,” Online eponymous exhibition. Curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen.
- "Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
- “Fragmented Bodies,” albertz benda, New York, NY.
- “New Visions Triennial,” Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
- “Tell Me Your Story,” Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
- "Dancing Machines,” FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- “Mapping Black Identities,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
- 2019-2020
- "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- "Orlando," Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany
- "The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 2019
- “Better Nights,” Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL. Organized by Mickalene Thomas
- “Must’ve Been A Wake-Dream: Guadalupe Rosales,” Gordan Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY
- "Personal Private Public," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
- "Studio Photography: 1887-2019," Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
- "Umbilicus," Galeria Sultana, Paris, France
- "In Focus: The Camera," Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- "Artists I Steal From," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
- "Forging Territories: Queer Afro and Latinx Contemporary Art," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
- “BeSeen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall,” Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- “Stonewall 50!,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
- "Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- "Fire," Company Gallery, New York, NY
- "Nobody’s World," Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY
- "Circus of Books," Fierman, New York, NY
- "Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
- "Grace Wales Bonner," Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
- "Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Art Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2018
- “Groundings,” MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
- "Tipping Points," Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- “Positioner,” Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
- “Echoes: Reframing Collage,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Opening October 11
- “The Violators,” Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY. Organized by Gio Black Peter
- "This is Not a Prop,” David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Intimacy,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Both, and,” Stevenson Galleries, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
- “Being : New Photography 2018,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
- “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Way Forward,” ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Nayland Blake.
- 2017
- “Trigger : Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” The New Museum, New York, NY.
- “Discursive Selves,” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.
- “A Sag, Harbored,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
- “Encounters I may or may not have had with Peter Berlin,” Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece. With Mariah Garnett and Neal Tait, curated by Caroline May.
- “Over the Rainbow,” Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA.
- “Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY.
- “The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Jack Shainmann Gallery’s The School, Kinderhook, NY.
- “Regarding the Figure,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
- “Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
- “Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, “ Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY.
- “Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon.
- 2016
- “Tête-à-tête,” David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
- “Protuberances,” LAXART, Los Angeles, CA.
- “Occupy Space Differently,” Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
- “A Subtle Likeness,” ONE Archive, Los Angeles, CA.
- “James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists’ Institute, New York, NY. Curated by Hilton Als.
- “Jack Pierson: Tomorrow’s Man,” University of Nevada, Reno, NV. Curated by Jack Pierson.
- “storefront: Public Fiction,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. With Litia Perta, curated by Lauren Mackler.
- “MFA Thesis Show #3,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA. With Nikita Gale and Sarah Sarchin.
- “Queering the Biblioproject,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curated by John Chaich.
- “Terms of Use : Reproducing the Photographic Image,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Curated by Aron Gent.
- 2015
- “Record. Collect. Compose,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Masood Kamandy (catalogue)
- “I Am a Camera,” Houston Foto Fest, Houston, TX.
- “A Room of One’s Own,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Nine Artists,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
- “Introducing! Young California Photographer Award,” Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA.
- “In Profile: Portraits from the Permanent Collection,” the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
- 2014
- “Kings County,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (catalogue)
- “Spain & 42 St.,” Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- “Something Beautiful,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Beyond the Pale,” Interstate Project, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sam McKinniss. (catalogue)
- “Race, Love, and Labor,” Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. Curated by Sarah Lewis. (catalogue)
- “The Thing Itself,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Lighting Speed of the Present,” Boston University, Boston, MA. Curated by Lynne Cooney.
- 2013
- “Tête-a-Tête,” QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
- “Body Language,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
- “The Kids Are All Right,” Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC.
- “White Boys,” Cantor-Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan. (catalogue)
- 2012
- “The Kids Are All Right,” Koelher Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
- “BENEATH,” VOGT Gallery, New York, NY.
- “B-OUT,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Surface Tension,” Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
- 2011
- “Pride & Prejudice Reprise,” Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
- “Evidence of Accumulation: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. (catalogue)
- “Portraits,” I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Simon Watson.
- 2010
- “Quadruple-Consciousness,” Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Malik Gaines. (catalogue)
- 2018
- 2010 “In Translation (Portraiture),” Skylight Projects, New York, NY. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
- 2010
- “Lost Horizon / Head Shop,” Exile Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Billy Miller.
- “The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements,” Façade/Fasad, Brooklyn, NY.
- “50 Artists Photograph the Future,” Higher Pictures, New York, NY. Curated by Dean Daderko.
- “Printed Matter’s Queer Zines,” Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
- 2009
- “Compassion,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY. Curated by AA Bronson
- “30 Seconds Off an Inch,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
- “Buddy List,” Space 414, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
- “Lyst,” Overtaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- “Inside of Me,” PHIL, Los Angeles, CA.
- “My Bloody Valentine,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Darin Klein.
- 2008
- “Artist as Publisher,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
- “LEADAWARDS2008,” Deichterhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- “Male: photographs, drawings, paintings and ephemera from the collection of Vince Aletti,” White Columns, New York, NY. (book)
- 2007
- “Come Join The Brotherhood,” Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Neon Parc Galery, Melbourne, Australia
- “The Male Gaze,” The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
- 2006
- “When Fathers Fail,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY.
- “Six Degrees of Separation,” Stefan Stux Gallery, NY.
- “When Artists Say ‘We’,” Artist Space, New York, NY. Curated by Andrea Geyer.
Boards and Service
- 2019-2020
- Printed Matter Board
- Hammer Museum Artist Council
- 2018-2020
- Los Angeles Artist Advisory Committee
- 2009-2020
- The Robert Giard Foundation
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- 2023
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- Morgan, Mallery Roberts. "Stephen Galloway on turning movement into magic," Wallpaper*, July 7 (Link)
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- 2022
- Hall, Michael Anthony. "Viewing Pleasure: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," V Magazine, November 25 (Link)
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- 2021
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- 2020
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- Malone, Callan. "The LALA List," LALA Magazine, Winter 2019, p. 51
- "In the Studio with Paul Mpagi Sepuya," SIXTY Hotels (blog), January 9 (Link)
- Selvin, Claire. "Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Now Represents Paul Mpagi Sepuya,’ ARTnews, January 8 (Link)
- Pahules, Anastasia. "Artists on Art: Paul Mpagi Sepuya on Lorna Simpson," LACMA Unframed (blog), January (Link)
- 2018
- Cooper, Ashton. "Critics’ Picks: Positioner at Matthew Marks," Artforum, October (Link)
- Christon, Jimmy. "’Tipping Points’ exhibit reflects changing political world," The Miscellany News, October 24 (Link)
- Haris, Gareth. "Can an increase in two-artist booths spur sales at Paris’s Fiac?" Art Newspaper, October 17 (Link)
- Lubow, Arthur. "What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says," New York Times, March 9 (Link)
- Allegretto, Dan. "We All Wear the Mask: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art," Art in America, April 2 (Link)
- Jones, Gregory Eddi. "Picture, Paper, Friend, and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya," In the In-Between, March 12 (Link)
- Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. "Paul Sepuay at team (bungalow," Carla, February 14 (Link)
- Oldweiler, Cory. "MoMA’s new photography exhibit focuses on identity in 2018," AM New York, March 18 (Link)
- Woodward, Richard B. "MoMA’s Human Focus," Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)
- Wheeler, André-Naquian. "moma’s ‘new photography’ series asks what it means to be human," i-d, March 27 (Link)
- Aubry, Lisa. "MoMA to Display UCLA Alum’s Work Exploring Identity, Portraiture," Daily Bruin, March 14 (Link)
- Norman, Lee Ann. "Intimate Moves In A Dark Room: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document," New City Art, April 19 (Link)
- Goldberg, Ariel. "In the Room," Art in America, April 1 (Link)
- "Image of the Day," Elephant, September 12 (Link)
- Wheeler, André. "In the Studio, in the Nude: An Artist Capturing Queer Masculinity," AnOther, October 12 (Link)
- Eckardt, Stephanie. “The 7 Photographers Proving that the Self-Portriat is 2018’s Most Exciting Genre,” W Magazine, April 6 (Link)
- Campbell, Andy. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Aperture, Fall
- “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Unseen, Issue 5, Fall
- Quinton, Jared. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at DOCUMENT,” Artforum, March (Link)
- Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room, Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” Newcity Art, April 19 (Link)
- Goldberg, Ariel. "The Room,” Art In America Magazine, April 1 (Link)
- Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear The Mask : New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art In America Magazine, April 2 (Link)
- Wheeler, André-Naquian. “MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Series Asks What It Means to be Human,” i-D Magazine, March 27 (Link)
- Indrisek, Scott. “At MoMA, Photography Doesn’t Have to Reinvent Itself to be Radical,” Artsy, March 20 (Link)
- “Five Questions with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Cultured Magazine, March 20 (Link)
- Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” The Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)
- Jones, Gregory Eddi. “Picture, Paper, Friend and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The In-Between, March (Link)
- Schwabsky, Barry. “Without Warning: Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’” The Nation, January 26 (Link)
- Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” The New York Times, March 9 (Link)
- 2017
- "Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Figures, Grounds and Studies" The Eye of Photography, February 20
- Eckardt, Stephanie. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Photo Studio is Sexier Than Yours," February 25 (Link)
- Dykstra, Jean. "PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA: FIGURES, GROUNDS AND STUDIES AT YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY," Photograh Magazine, February (Link)
- Sargent, Antwuan. "Picture Yourself in the Queer Photographic Space of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Creators, March 23 (Link)
- Bradley, Rizvana. “Aesthetic Inhumanisms : Toward an Eroritcs of Otherworlding,” The New Museum
- Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at team (bungalow),” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, issue 15
- Pieterson, Mark. “The sinuous nature of desire + alternative ways of seeing with Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photographic explorations of queer presence,” AQNB, October 31 (Link)
- Pofalla, Boris. “Zeigen und Verbergen,” Monopol Magazine, October
- Cunningham, Vinson. “How Radical Can A Portrait Be?,” The New Yorker, May 5 (Link)
- Schwabsky, Barry. “Playing with Mirrors: Two artists push the limits of what cameras can do,” The Nation, May 2
- Dafoe, Taylor. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Yancey Richardson Gallery,” Modern Painters, March
- Bourland, Ian. “Critic’s Pick: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, March 3 (Link)
- Griffith, Phillip. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Figures, Grounds and Studies,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 1 (Link)
- Small, Zachary. “The Solitude and Sensuality of an Artist’s Studio,” Hyperallergic, February 17 (Link)
- Rachel, T. Cole. “Paul Sepuya on finding your form,” The Creative Independent, February 9 (Link)
- Yau, John. “Three Photographers and What They Show Us About Everyday Life: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Hyperallergic, February 12 (Link)
- “Goings On About Town: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The New Yorker, February 1
- 2016
- Als, Hilton. “James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists Institute
- Garcia, Lindsay. “The Autonomous Limbs of Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid
- Malick, Courtney. “From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture,” San Francisco Art Quarterly
- Reznik, Eugene. “Enter the Private World of Photographers’ Studios,” American Photo Magazine, August 13
- 2015
- Malick, Courtney. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya In Conversation with Courtney Malick," SFAQ, December 3 (Link)
- “Goings On About Town: A Room of One’s Own,” The New Yorker, August 8
- “Goings On About Town: Spain & 42 St.,” The New Yorker, January 6
- 2014
- Russeth, Andrew. “To Bushwick! Shows to See Right Now…,” Artnet News, October 30
- Scheffler, Daniel. “Brooklyn Inspires African Artists,” The New York Times, October 14 (Link)
- “Goings on About Town: The Thing Itself,” The New Yorker, August 19
- ArtReview Magazine : “The Expanded Photograph,” by David Everett Howe, May 2014
- 2013
- Fialho, Alex. “Nuggets of Queerness: Year 3 of the Fire Island Artist Residency,” ARTFCITY, August 29 (Link)
- Koestenbaum, Wayne. "My 1980s and Other Essays," Eric’s Stubble, 2013
- Benderson, Bruce. “Petits Portraits Entre Amis,” Têtu Magazine, March
- 2012
- Akel, Joseph. “500 Words: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, May 15
- 2011
- Lopes, Fabiola. “Review: Portraits, at I-20 Gallery,” Flash Art International Magazine, October
- Bronson, AA and Lauren Haynes. “Evidence of Accumulation,” The Studio Museum in Harlem
- 2010
- “Goings On About Town: 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New Yorker, June 10
- Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review – 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New York Times, May 28
- Cotter, Holland. “In Books and Fine Arts, Filling the Down Time of New Year’s,” The New York Times, December 31
- 2009
- Cotter, Holland. “All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle,” The New York Times, October 2
- Forteza, Pepo Moreno. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Natural Light Portrait,” Revista Metal Magazine, April 15
- Ryzik, Melena. “At a Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home,” The New York Times, May 10
- Blagojevic, Bosko. “Paul Sepuya’s ‘Alexandria’ at envoy,” ArtCat, February 10
- Gartenfeld, Alex. “Jack Pierson interviews Paul Sepuya,” Interview Magazine, January 30
- Courtney, Kenneth. “Alexandria,” This.Hearts.On.Fire, January 5
- 2008
- Bronson, AA. “Queer Zines” Printed Matter, NY
- Limnander, Armand. “Fine Print: Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, Revisited,”The New York Times Style Magazine, April 4
- Il Terzo Occhio : “La fotografia americana,” by Umberto Mancini January 28
- 2007
- Packam, Monte. “Clean Sheets: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” SLEEK Magazine, Autumn
- Trebay, Guy. “Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment”, The New York Times , May 6
- 2006
- van Benekom, Jop and Gert Jonkers. “BUTT BOOK,” BUTT Magazine
- Polly, John. “Art Zines Rule! Part One,” LOGO New Now Next Blog, September 20
- Tierney, Paul. “Zine Scene,” V Man Magazine, September
- Klein, Darren. “Thing: New Penis Art from America,”
- Weskott, Aljoscha. “Designing Men- Shoot,” de:bug, July
- “Weniger ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits,” GAB-Frankfrut Magazin, April
- White, David. “He SHOOTs, He Scores,” Instinct Magazine, March
- Frame, Allen. “Slide Slam” Teaching Photo Magazine, February
- “Boys,” BUTT Magazine : issue 15
- 2005
- Boston, Nick. “Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait taken by young photographer,” BUTT Magazine, issue 14
- “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” EYEMAZING Magazine, issue 08
Publications
- 2023
- Bullock, Michael. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Apartamento Magazine Issue #31, Spring/Summer 2023, Pg 340 – 361
- 2022
- "Orifice + Aperture | Paul Mpagi Sepuya," TBW Books, Oakland, CA 2022
- “Flora Photographica: the Flower in Contemporary Photography”, Edited by William Ewing and Danae Panchaud, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2022
- 2021
- "STILL LIFE: Reflections from Confinement", Organized by Roya Sachs, Mafalda Millies, Lizzie Edelman and Matthias Kliefoth, Text by Jennifer Higgie, Published by TRIADIC and DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2021
- 2022
- "Prime Art’s Next Generation," Phaidon Press Limited, London, UK 2022, pp 360-363
- 2021
- “Humans: Photographs That Make You Think” By Henry Carroll, Published by Abrams, 2021
- “The Extreme Self” Edited by Shumon Basar, Douglas Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Published by Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021
- “Off Camera” Edited by Steven Humblet, Published by Roma Publishers, 2021
- "What Artists Wear" by Charlie Porter, Published by Penguin, 2021
- “Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography” By Charlotte Jansen, Published by Ilex; Tate, 2021 (Link)
- 2020
- Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
- "Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” with texts by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Grace Wales Bonner, Lucy Gallun, Ariel Goldberg, and Evan Moffitt, published by CAM St. Louis in association with Aperture, April 7, 2020
- "Why Photography?” edited by Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, and Christian Tunge, published by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in association with Skira Editore and Melk, May 28, 2020 (pp. 44-51)
- 2019
- “The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization,” edited by Daniel C. Blight, published by SPBH Editions & Art on the Underground, 2019
- “Contact Sheet 202: Light Work Annual 2019,” artist portfolio and text by Alex Jen, Published by Light Work, 2019, pp. 76-83
- “Body” by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2019
- “Art & Queer Culture (Edition II),” by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Published by Phaidon, 2019
- 2017
- Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 152-155. New Museum.
Public Talks, Panels and Juries
- 2023
- The Catalyst Speaker Series: In conversation with Rodney Diverlus, Toronto Metropolitan University, Virtual (artist talk)
- DPI Alum Panel Honoring Lorie Novak, New York, NY + Virtual (artist talk)
- 2022
- 2022 Monsen Photography Lecture, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2020
- San Diego State University, San Diego, CA (artist talk)
- University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
- Yale University, New Haven, CT. (artist talk)
- Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA. (in conversation with Wassan Al-Khudhairi)
- Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
- Robert Giard Foundation Grant, New York, NY. (juror)
- 2019
- Art Basel Conversations, Miami Beach, FL. (panel)
- University of California Los Angeles, Graduate Art History Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. (keynote lecture)
- Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. (panel)
- Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO. (artist talk)
- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. (panel)
- International Center for Photography, New York, NY. (artist talk)
- CSS Bard, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. (in conversation with Lauren Cornell)
- Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. (artist talk)
- Cal State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. (artist talk)
- University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. (artist talk)
- California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (panel)
- 2018
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (artist talk)
- Columbia College, Chicago, IL
- The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (In conversation with Hilton Als)
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
- The Society for Photographic Education, Northeast Chapter, New Paltz, NY. (keynote lecture)
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. (artist talk)
- Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. (artist talk)
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. (panel)
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. (artist talk)
- The New Museum, New York, NY. (screening and artist talk with A.K. Burns)
- The Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA. (artist talk)
- 2017
- KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY. (artist talk)
- Denison University, Granville, OH. (artist talk)
- Parsons The New School, New York, NY. (artist talk)
- Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA. (panel with Kelly Nipper, Carter Mull and Russell Ferguson)
- 3000
- Analogue Dissident at South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
- 2015
- Document, Chicago, IL. With Megha Ralapati (artist talk)
- 2014
- The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WS. (artist talk)
- Latitude, Chicago, IL., With Elijah Burgher. (artist talk)
- Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
- 2013
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. (visiting artist talk)
- Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. (artist talk)
- “Black Male Revisited,” Danspace Project, New York, NY. With niv Acosta, Rich Blint, and Thomas Lax. (artist talk)
- Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove Arts Center, Fire Island, NY. With Laurel Sparks, Baker Overstreet and Grey Day. (artist talk)
- Artspeak, Vancouver (artist talk)
- 2012
- Pride Photo Award, Amsterdam (juror)
- 2011
- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. With Simone Leigh and Kamau Amu Patton. (artist talk)
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (juror)
- 2010
- Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
- 2011
- New York Photo Fest (panelist)
- Rhode Island School of Design (visiting artist)
- 2009
- Printed Matter Artist Grant (juror)
- 2006
- “Slide Slam,” International Center for Photography, New York City. With Leigh Ledare and Phyllis Galembo. (artist talk)
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- 2021
- Artadia Award, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Finalist, City of Miami Beach Legacy Purchase Program, Miami Beach, FL
- Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2019 Biennial Grant
- Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL
- 2018
- Artist-in-Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
- 2017
- The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Los Angeles Artists
- 2015
- Finalist, Paris Photo Los Angeles inaugural Introducing! Young California Photographer Award
- 2014
- Jackman Goldwasser Artist-in-Residence, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
- 2013
- Artist-in-Residence, Fire Island Artist Residency (Sikkema Fellow Award)
- 2010-2011
- Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem
- 2010
- Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
- 2009-2010
- Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
- Visiting Artist, New York University
- 2009
- Artist-in-Residence, HomeBase, New York
- 2008
- LEAD Academy, Hamburg
Teaching Experience
- 2019-2023
- Associate Professor in Media Art, University of California San Diego
- 2019
- Visiting Artist, California State University Bakersfield
- Visiting Artist, California State University Long Beach
- Visiting Artist, University of California Riverside
- 2017-2019
- Visiting Artist Faculty, CalArts
- 2018
- Visiting Artist, California College of Art
- Visiting Artist, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
- Visiting Artist, MFA Lecture Series, Yale University School of Art
- Visiting Artist, Ben Maltz Lecture Series, Rhode Island School of Design
- Visiting Artist Faculty, Bard College MFA
- Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Visiting Artist, Georgia State University
- Visiting Artist, University of Georgia, Athens
- 2017
- Guest Critic, Cal State University, Long Beach
- Visiting Artist, Denison University
- Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art & Design
- Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School
- 2016
- Summer Arts Academy, University of California, Los Angeles
Library Collections
- Brooklyn Museum Library Collection, Brooklyn, NY
- Fotomuseum Winterthur Library Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
- Mills College Library, Oakland, CA
- Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
Public Collections
- American Friends of the Israel Museum, West Hollywood, CA
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
- Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
- Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- Center for Photography at Woodstock Collection at SUNY New Paltz, NY
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
- Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
- The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, Orange, CA
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- International Center for Photography, New York, NY
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- JP Morgan Collection, New York, NY
- Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Light Work, Syracuse, NY
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Speed Art Museum, New Orleans, LA
- The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
- Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- University of New Mexico, La Cruces, NM
- University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
- Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY