Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography. His work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Getty and Guggenheim Museums, LACMA, MoCA Los Angeles, MoMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum, among others. His work has been covered in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Art in America, The Nation, and The Guardian, and was featured on the cover of ARTFORUM’s March 2019 issue. Recent museum exhibitions include those at the Guggenheim Museum, the Barbican Centre, the Getty Museum, and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. A survey of work from 2008-2018 was presented at CAM St. Louis and University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, accompanied by a monograph published by CAM St. Louis and Aperture Foundation. He is Acting Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Image courtesy of the artist.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Screen (0X5A8295), 2019, 40 x 60" + Image courtesy of the artist, DOCUMENT, Chicago, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.
Barry Blinderman is a writer, lecturer, and recording artist. From 1980-87 he was director of Semaphore Gallery in SoHo and the East Village, NYC, representing Robert Colescott, Nancy Dwyer, Martin Wong, and other artists who came to prominence at the time. As the former director of University Galleries of Illinois State University, he curated the first traveling US museum exhibitions for David Wojnarowicz, Jane Dickson, Martin Wong, Keith Haring, Michele Grabner, Walter Robinson, and others. His interviews and essays on artists from Andy Warhol and Robert Longo to Steve Reich and Danica Phelps have been published internationally.