Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982 in San Bernardino, California/USA) lives and works in Los Angeles. He is Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego. Sepuya received a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2004) and an MFA in Photography from the University of California Los Angeles (2016). He has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including at Nottingham Contemporary (2024), the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019), Foam in Amsterdam (2018), and MoMA in New York (2018). His works are held in major international collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Tate London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Stedelijk Museum, among others.