Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Join artist **Paul Sepuya** for an after-hours tour of *SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection*. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. **Paul Mpagi Sepuya** creates photographs that 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. His interests also include queer literary modernism and questions of artistic responsibility regarding representation and refusal. Sepuya's solo museum exhibitions include *Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure* at Nottingham Contemporary (2024), *Paul Mpagi Sepuya*, a survey of work from 2006-2018 at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2019), and *Double Enclosure* at Fotomuseum Amsterdam (2018).Recent museum exhibitions also include the Whitney Biennial 2019; *Being: New Photography 2018* at the Museum of Modern Art (2018); *Trigger *at the New Museum, New York (2018); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. He received a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of Art (2004) and an MFA in photography at UCLA (2016).