BIOGRAPHY

Born: San Bernardino, California, 1982

Resides: Los Angeles, California

Education: University of California Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2016); New York University Tisch School of the Arts (B.F.A., 2004)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020     “A Conversation Around Pictures,” Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles.

             “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Modern Art, London.

2019     “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston

             “The Conditions,” Team Gallery, New York.

2018     “Double Enclosure,” Foam Fotomuseum, Amsterdam.

             “Dark Room,” Document, Chicago.

2017     “Dark Room,” Team Gallery, Los Angeles.

             “Figures, Grounds and Studies,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020    “Masculinities,” Barbican Gallery, London.

2019    “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” Guggenheim Museum, New York.

            “Once. Again. Photographs in Series,” Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

            “Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

2018    “Being: New Photography,” Museum of Modern Art, New York.

            “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York.

2011    “Evidence of Accumulation,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2020    Al-Khudhairi, Wassan. Paul Mpagi Sepuya. New York: Aperture.

2019    Aletti, Vince. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,” Artforum (May).

            Scott, Andrea K. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mines the Queer History of the Portrait Studio,” The New Yorker (March 29).

            Schwendener, Martha. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” New York Times (March 28).

            Velasco, David. “Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum (March).

2018    Goldberg, Ariel. “In the Room,” Art in America (April).

            Lubow, Arthur. “Resurrecting the Intimacy of the Lens,” New York Times (March 11).

2017    Schwabsky, Barry. “Playing with Mirrors,” The Nation (May 2).

            Bourland, Ian. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum (March).

2014    Howe, David Everitt. “The Expanded Photograph,” ArtReview (May).