"I will be surprised when I get into the gallery," explains American artist, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, on the eve of , his first UK institutional exhibition that opens today at Nottingham Contemporary. "I wanted to be hands-off in the formulation of this exhibition, trusting that the work has enough in it, and that Nicole Yip's (chief curator) research and care would bring things together."
This collaborative approach to image and exhibition-making has been central to 's practice since graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. Now highly sought after, Sepuya's early series of zines featuring portraits of friends, , is cited as an important part of the resurgence of queer self-publishing culture in the 2000s. Major institutional recognition came in 2018 when he was selected for New Photography 2018, MoMa's survey of essential artists working at the forefront of photography, followed by his participation in the Whitney Biennial in 2019.
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