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Paul Mpagi
Sepuya lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied photography
and imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Sepuya has participated in group exhibitions at Envoy Gallery,
Daniel Reich Gallery, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, STUX Gallery,
Artists Space and the powerHouse Arena in New York City; at
LACMA, Los Angeles, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, the Australian
Center of Photography, Sydney, Australia, and Art Metropole,
Toronto. His first solo exhibition, Beloved Object and Amorous
Subject, was presented at Envoy Gallery in the Spring of 2007,
and his video work, Subject-Object Proof no.2, was selected
for a special artist installation in Miami at the 2008 PULSE
New York art fair. Features and contributions of Sepuya's work
can be found in magazines including BUTT, Currency, EYEMAZING,
TSHDT?, Capricious, and I.D., and Têtu, and The New York
Times. He is the publisher of the well-known zine project, SHOOT,
began in 2005 and currently on it's seventh installment. His
first monograph, "Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, revisited" was
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2009
2008
2007 |
"Alexandria,"
envoy, New York City. January 15 - 25
"Subject-Object
Proof no.2", special project for PULSE Art Fair, New
York City
"Beloved
Object and Amorous Subject," envoy, New York City |
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
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"Artist as Publisher," Center
for Book Arts, New York
"Male: Works from the Collection of Vince
Aletti," Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"The Other Side," 58
Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Billy Miller.
"LEADAWARDS2008," Deichterhallen
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Male: photographs, drawings,
paintings and ephemera from the collection of Vince Aletti,"
White Columns, New York City
"The Appearance and the Thing
Itself", envoy at Greismar&Tamer,
Paris, France
"Untitled = u [a photographic group
show]", Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles
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| 2007 |
"Distinctive
Messengers," The House of Campari, New York City
and Miami Beach, Florida
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya
EXHIBition,"
We Showroom Paris Now, Paris, France
"Transformations:
Photography and Imaging at 25," Tisch School of the
Arts, NYU, New York City
"Come Join The Brotherhood,"
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
"The
Male Gaze," The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York
City
"T(h)ree,"
envoy, New York City
"Come Join The Brotherhood,"
Neon
Parc Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
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| 2006 |
Publish
and Be Damned,
LACMA, Los Angeles.
"When
Fathers Fail," Daniel Reich Gallery, New York.
Art Basel, Basel,
Switzerland. With Printed Matter.
"Six
Degrees of Separation," Stefan Stux Gallery, New York.
"When
Artists Say 'We'," Artist Space, New York. Curated
by Andrea Geyer
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| 2005 |
Art Basel Miami Beach,
Art Metropole and Printed Matter, Miami Beach, Florida
"Face & Figure: Portrait and
Figure Study in Contemporary Photography," Westport
Art Center, Westport, CT
Editions/Artists' Books Fair 2005,
Printed Matter booth, New York
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Daniel
Cooney Fine Art, New York
Photo New York, Printed Matter
booth, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
"Summer Salon," Daniel Cooney
Fine Art, New York
Art Basel, Printed Matter, Basel,
Switzerland |
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2004 |
"Surfeit: An exercise in moderate
excess," ZONE:chelsea center for the arts, New York
"In our minds we have images, called
ideas (let's make pretty things)", 137 Rivington,
New York |
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bronson, AA, "Queer Zines, the catalogue," 2008
Velasco, David, "ARTFORUM 500 WORDS: AA Bronson," Artforum.com,
October 23, 2008
Limnander, Armand "Fine
Print: Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, Revisited" The New York Times T Style Magazine online,
April 4, 2008
Mancini,
Umberto, "La
fotografia americana," Il
Terzo Occhio,
January 28, 2008
Packum, Monte, "Clean
Sheets: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," SLEEK magazine,
Autumn 2007
Trebay, Guy, "Gay
Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment", The
New York Times and International
Herald Tribune, May 6, 2007
van Benekom, Jop and Jonkers, Gert, BUTT BOOK, 2006
Polly, John, "Art Zines Rule! Part One," LOGOonline New Now Next
Blog. September 20, 2006, illus.
Tierney, Paul, "Zine
Scene,"
V Man Magazine issue 7. September 2006. p84, illus.
Klein,
Darin, Thing: New Penis Art from America, 2006
Weskott, Aljoscha, "Designing
Men- Shoot", de:bug magazine Berlin, July - August
2006, p49, illus.
"Weniger
ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits,"
GAB-Frankfrut Magazin, April 2006, illus.
"He SHOOTs, He Scores," by David White, INSTINCT
Magazine, March 2006, illus.
"Slide Slam" by Allen Frame, Teaching
Photo, February 2006, illus.
"Boys", BUTT
Magazine, issue 15 2006
"Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait
taken by young photographer," BUTT
Magazine, issue 14 October 2005, pp 65-67, illus.
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya,"
EYEMAZING 08 , pp. 84 - 91, illus.
"All The Young Dudes" on
Nerve.com photography galleries, with text "Tattood Love
Boys" by Charles Beyer
"Modern Paul," Fleshbot, August
9 2004
"Guild the Lily," Flavorpill Issue
214
SELECT COMMISSIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
FAIRY TALE
MAGAZINE, Winter 2008 - 09
Box of Books, published
by Darin Klein, 2008
TSHDT?05, front and back covers, 2008
MALE:
from the collection of Vince Aletti, published by Andrew
Roth, 2008
The Male Nude, edited by David Leddick, published
by Rizzoli, 2008
KAISERIN #3, fall/winter 2008
(cover and back images)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again..., premiere issue,
2007
I.D. Magazine, March/April 2007 (cover image)
Pin-Up Magazine,
premier issue, Winter 2006/7
"The Difference between a memory,
a portrait, a resolution," with Joshua Thorson, They
Shoot Homos Don't They?, issue 003, illus.
Currency #3, 2006
STH
Straight To Hell #65, Feb 2006 (cover image)
SCRUB Magazine issue
one, photography with Katie Kline
Fairytale Magazine, Pure Fashion, Winter 2005-6
Scumbagfagmag,
issue 08, Gorge-us
Capricious
#3, pp. pp 7 - 11
ARTIST TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Slide Fest - New Directions, at the International Center
of Photography, moderated by Pradeep Dalal. December 2006
Slide Slam, slide lecture at the School of Visual Arts, New
York. Moderated by Allen Frame. October 2005
AWARDS AND HONORS
LEAD Academy, Hamburg, 2008
Art Metropole Life Membership
Seth Tobias Award / Grant 2002
EDUCATION
BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
b. 1982 in San Bernardino, CA.
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