Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles–based artist working in photography. His work emerged within the queer zine scene of the 2000s, and was most recently shown in solos at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Vielmetter Los Angeles. A survey of work from 2008-2018 was recently presented at CAM St. Louis and University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, accompanied by a monograph published by CAM St. Louis and Aperture Foundation. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and MOCA Los Angeles, among others. Sepuya is currently Acting Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego. Upcoming projects include a solo at Document Gallery in Chicago, and a publication with TBW Books.
This ART 158 lecture took place on April 14, 2021, on Zoom. Made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, and the College of Fine Arts.
