Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1982
Lives: Brooklyn, New York

Education
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Group Exhibitions
2006
27th Annual Benefit Auction, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), March 17

When Artists Say 'We'", Artist Space, New York

2005
"Gifts by Artists Exhibition", Art Metropole, Toronto

9th Annual Friends of Friends Photo Auction, at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York.

No Sleep Till Albany, Silent Auction/Benefit exhibition for Downtown for Democracy, at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

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

Benefit Auction, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

Photo New York, Printed Matter booth, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York

YART: an art-yard sale by Guild the Lily, at Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, New York.

Slide Slam, slide lecture at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Moderated by Allen Frame.

"Alumni Pin Up Show," Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York

"Summer Salon," Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

Art Basel, Printed Matter, Basel, Switzerland

2004


"Surfeit: An exercise in moderate excess," ZONE:chelsea center for the arts, New York

"The Liberty Fair", New York, NY. Drawings for childrens' coloring book.

"In our minds we have images, called ideas (let's make pretty things)", 137 Rivington, New York

"Flesh," Barthelemy / Salomon Gallery, New York

"The Baby's Bathwater: 30+ twentysomethings try not to throw the baby out" at Asterisk Art Project, Brooklyn

"BFA Exhibition 2004," Gulf & Western and 8th Floor galleries, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

"Creative Clash" Club Rare, New York

"Group Show," Asterisk Art Project, Brooklyn

"Senior Show 1," 8th Floor Galleries, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

Bibliography
"Boys", BUTT Magazine, issue 15 Feb 2006
STH Straight To Hell #65, Feb 2006 (cover image)
"He SHOOTs, He Scores," by David White, INSTINCT Magazine, March 2006
"Slide Slam" by Allen Frame, Teaching Photo, February 2006
Fairytale Magazine, Pure Fashion, Winter 2005-6
"Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait taken by young photographer," BUTT Magazine, issue 14 October 2005, pp 65-67
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," EYEMAZING 08 , pp. 84 - 91
Capricious #3, pp. pp 7 - 11
Scumbagfagmag, issue 08, Gorge-us
"All The Young Dudes" on Nerve.com photography galleries, with text "Tattood Love Boys" by Charles Beyer
"BFA Catalog," New York University dept. of Photography & Imaging
"Modern Paul," Fleshbot, August 9 2004
"Guild the Lily," Flavorpill Issue 214

Grants/Awards
Seth Tobias Award / Grant 2002

Projects
Guild the Lily, founder and director
Craft Circle
Crit Co-Op
Terminal 5 (performance with Ju$t Another Rich Kid)

Publications
SHOOT no.4, self-published photo catalogue/zine, 2006
SHOOT no.3, self-published photo catalogue/zine, 2005
SHOOT no.2, self-published photo catalogue/zine, 2005
SHOOT no.1, self-published photo catalogue/zine, 2005