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    Auditorium
    Friday, June 17, 2022, 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM

    Monsen Photography Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

    The Henry is excited to welcome Paul Mpagi Sepuya as this year’s Monsen Photography Lecture speaker. This annual lecture brings key makers and thinkers in photographic practice to the Henry. Named after Drs. Elaine and Joseph Monsen, the series is designed to further knowledge about and appreciation for the art of photography.

    This lecture will also be live-streamed on the Henry’s YouTube channel.

    Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He makes photographs documenting himself and his extended queer community that challenge and deconstruct traditional norms of the studio portraiture genre. Sepuya subverts this genre through his embrace of his own Black, queer gaze, creating intimate images of himself with fellow artists, collaborators, and lovers that are at once extensions of relationships and projections of desire. His work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museums; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Vielmetter Los Angeles and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, a survey of work at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, and a project for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Most recently, Sepuya’s solo exhibition, Stage, was on view at Document in Chicago, and a publication co-curated and produced with TBW Books is forthcoming.
    ADMISSION

    FREE. Registration for this event is sold out. Watch online via our YouTube channel.

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    ACCESS
    This event is public.
    ACCESSIBILITY
    The museum is fully accessible by wheelchair, and we strive to provide services and accommodations for anyone who needs assistance. Assisted listening devices are available upon request. Please email contact-programs@henryart.org with particular needs or questions you may have. This program will be live-streamed on the Henry's YouTube channel; automated captions are provided by YouTube. A recording of this program with professional captions will be made available in the near future.
     

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    <p>Paul Mpagi Sepuya, <i>Darkroom Mirror (_2200633)</i>, 2018. Inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles.</p>
    Exhibitions

    Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Monsen Photography Lecture

    June 4, 2022 – September 25, 2022