Paul Mpagi Sepuya 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, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tate, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, 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 the March 2019 issue of Artforum. Recent museum exhibitions include those at the Barbican Centre, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, SFMoMA, and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. A survey of work from 2006 to 2018 was presented at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Blaffer Art Museum, which was accompanied by a monograph published by CAM St. Louis and Aperture Foundation. A solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles opened in September 2022, with a sibling solo opening in November at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. He is Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California, San Diego.