Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Excerpts & Fragments presents twenty years of Los Angeles-based artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s zines, artist books, and collages.

Informed by queer modernist literature and early internet culture, Sepuya utilizes fragmentation and multiple perspectives to construct intimate photographs that are explicitly subjective, connecting a community of friends and lovers. Over the past decade, Sepuya has gained notoriety for his studio-based portraits where mirrors often reflect the camera, elements of the studio, and his own body alongside his sitters. The resulting images lay bare a desirous exchange between the camera, artist, subject, and viewer.

This exhibition explores three modalities of Sepuya's practice: zines (2005 - 2008), unique artist books (2013 - 2020) and collages (2017 - 2025). Combining accumulated photographs with materials from his personal journals, iPhone, analog darkroom, and former studios, Sepuya refers to these objects as “working documents.” Together, they serve an essential role for the artist, creating a method to organize his thinking around photography. Encompassing his years in New York and Los Angeles, where he has resided since 2014, these excerpts from Sepuya’s extensive bodies of work offer insight into major throughlines and shifts in his process over time.

The first exhibition to focus exclusively on these works, Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Excerpts & Fragments includes an archive of his early zines, his complete, never-before-seen collection of artist books, and a selection of collages. The exhibition also features a site-specific facade installation commissioned for the building that can be experienced at all hours.