(b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography whose projects weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium. Sepuya has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE. A survey of work from 2006-2018 was presented at CAM St. Louis and the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, accompanied by a monograph published by CAM St. Louis and Aperture Foundation. Other recent exhibitions include those at the Leeds Art Gallery, V&A Photography Centre, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Museum, and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. He is Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego. Sepuya's work resides in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Getty and Guggenheim Museums, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, MoCA Los Angeles, MoMA, SFMoMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tate, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
