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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Virtual Event

February 11 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya's work showing an obscured nude male and female upper torso while one holds a film camera over his face.

Date & Time
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 (7:30–9 p.m.)

Location
Virtual

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.

Throughout the fall and spring semesters, the Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series welcomes a diverse group of nationally and internationally recognized artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join us to explore and expand boundaries of creative visual practices alongside others with an interest in contemporary visual art.

Visit Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s website.

The Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series is supported in part by the UWM Black & Gold Committee and Differential Tuition funds, Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, The Queer Curatorial Fund, Center for 21st Century Studies, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, Print Club, Focus, and OBJECT.