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Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions

2008

2007

"Subject-Object Proof no.2", special project for PULSE Art Fair, New York City

"Beloved Object and Amorous Subject," envoy, New York City

 

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2008

 

"The Other Side," 58 Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Billy Miller. opening April 11

"LEADAWARDS2008," Deichterhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

"Male: photographs, drawings, paintings and ephemera from the collection of Vince Aletti," White Columns, New York City

"The Appearance and the Thing Itself", envoy at Greismar&Tamer, Paris, France

"Untitled = u [a photographic group show]", Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles

 

2007

"Distinctive Messengers," The House of Campari, New York City

"Transformations: Photography and Imaging at 25," Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York City

"Come Join The Brotherhood," Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia

"The Male Gaze," The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York City

"T(h)ree," envoy, New York City

"Come Join The Brotherhood," Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

 

2006

Publish and Be Damned, LACMA, Los Angeles.

"When Fathers Fail," Daniel Reich Gallery, New York.

Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland. With Printed Matter.

"Six Degrees of Separation," Stefan Stux Gallery, New York.

"When Artists Say 'We'," Artist Space, New York. Curated by Andrea Geyer

 

2005

Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Metropole and Printed Matter, Miami Beach, Florida

"Face & Figure: Portrait and Figure Study in Contemporary Photography," Westport Art Center, Westport, CT

Editions/Artists' Books Fair 2005, Printed Matter booth, New York

AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

Photo New York, Printed Matter booth, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York

"Summer Salon," Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

Art Basel, Printed Matter, Basel, Switzerland

   
2004

"Surfeit: An exercise in moderate excess," ZONE:chelsea center for the arts, New York

"In our minds we have images, called ideas (let's make pretty things)", 137 Rivington, New York

   

Limited Edition Publications and Projects
2007
SHOOT no.6

2006
SHOOT no.5
The difference between a memory, a portrait, a resolution.
SHOOT no.4
I love, I love


2005
SHOOT no.1
SHOOT no.2
SHOOT no.3
Beloved Object
Bedroom Portraits

Select Bibliography
Limnander, Armand "Fine Print: Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, Revisited" The New York Times T Style Magazine online, April 4, 2008
Mancini, Umberto, "La fotografia americana," Il Terzo Occhio, January 28, 2008
Packum, Monte, "Clean Sheets: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," SLEEK magazine, Autumn 2007

Trebay, Guy, "Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment", The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, May 6, 2007
van Benekom, Jop and Jonkers, Gert, BUTT BOOK, 2006
Polly, John, "Art Zines Rule! Part One," LOGOonline New Now Next Blog. September 20, 2006, illus.

Tierney, Paul, "Zine Scene," V Man Magazine issue 7. September 2006. p84, illus.
Klein, Darin, Thing: New Penis Art from America, 2006
Weskott, Aljoscha, "Designing Men- Shoot", de:bug magazine Berlin, July - August 2006, p49, illus.
"Weniger ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits," GAB-Frankfrut Magazin, April 2006, illus.
"He SHOOTs, He Scores," by David White, INSTINCT Magazine, March 2006, illus.
"Slide Slam" by Allen Frame, Teaching Photo, February 2006, illus.
"Boys", BUTT Magazine, issue 15 2006
"Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait taken by young photographer," BUTT Magazine, issue 14 October 2005, pp 65-67, illus.
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya,"
EYEMAZING 08 , pp. 84 - 91, illus.
"All The Young Dudes" on Nerve.com photography galleries, with text "Tattood Love Boys" by Charles Beyer
"Modern Paul," Fleshbot, August 9 2004
"Guild the Lily," Flavorpill Issue 214

Select Commissions and Contributions
KAISERIN #3,
fall/winter 2008 (cover and back images)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again...
, premiere issue, 2007
I.D. Magazine, March/April 2007 (cover image)
Pin-Up Magazine, premier issue, Winter 2006/7
"The Difference between a memory, a portrait, a resolution," with Joshua Thorson, They Shoot Homos Don't They?, issue 003, illus.
Currency #3, 2006
STH Straight To Hell #65, Feb 2006 (cover image)
SCRUB Magazine
issue one, photography with Katie Kline
Fairytale Magazine, Pure Fashion, Winter 2005-6

Scumbagfagmag, issue 08, Gorge-us
Capricious #3, pp. pp 7 - 11

Artist Talks and Presentations
Slide Fest - New Directions
, at the International Center of Photography, moderated by Pradeep Dalal. December 2006
Slide Slam
, slide lecture at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Moderated by Allen Frame. October 2005

Other Events

2007

Midwest Queer Fest, Chicago

"Paul Mpagi Sepuya EXHIBition," We Showroom Paris Now, Paris, France

 

2006

K48 Benefit Silent Auction, John Connelly Presents, New York.

27th Annual Benefit Auction, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

 

2005

9th Annual Friends of Friends Photo Auction, at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York.

No Sleep Till Albany, Silent Auction/Benefit exhibition for Downtown for Democracy, at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

Benefit Auction, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

   
2004

Terminal 5, performance with Ju$t Another Rich Kid.

"The Liberty Fair", New York, NY. Drawings for childrens' coloring book.

Awards and Honors
LEAD Academy, Hamburg, 2008
Art Metropole Life Membership
Seth Tobias Award / Grant 2002

Education
BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

b. 1982 in San Bernardino, CA. I currently live and work in Brooklyn, New York.

DOWNLOADS:

A COVER FOR I.D. DESIGN MAGAZINE, MARCH 08

A PORTRAIT OF MOMUS FOR CURRENCY 3. ALSO SEE HERE (snapshot by Momus)

A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARCHITECT FOR PIN-UP ARCHITECTURE MAG.

SCRUB MAGAZINE ISSUE ONE, WITH KATIE KLINE

TSHDT? ISSUE THREE, WITH JOSHUA THORSON

DE: BUG ARTICLE ALSO ONLINE HERE

DE:BUG Magazine July/August 2006, "Designing Men- Shoot"

GAB-Frankfurt April 2006, "Weniger ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits"

STH Straight To Hell #65 cover

BUTT Magazine 15 BOYS

Instinct Magazine March 2006

BUTT Magazine 14

EYEMAZING 08 Article by Anna Holtzman transcribed in PDF

 

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