Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s work highlights the constructed nature of the photographic document and the performative space of the photographic studio, embracing the medium’s potentials for fragmentation and connection. In Sepuya’s closeup studies of human forms, subjects are enmeshed in creative, desirous exchanges. His work has been exhibited in group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Sepuya was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Los Angeles Emerging Artist Grant in 2017. Sepuya lives and works in Los Angeles.