Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, California, USA) earned an MFA in photography at UCLA in 2016 and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Studio Museum in Harlem and Fire Island Artist Residency, and a recipient of the 2019 Rauschenberg Residency. He is Acting Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego and has taught at CalArts and Bard MFA. Sepuya’s work is in the permanent collections of the LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the ICA Boston, among others. Solo museum exhibitions include the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, DOCUMENT, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Fotomuseum Amsterdam, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and Blaffer Art Museum. Sepuya lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.
