Visual Art
Burlington, VT
Nicolei Buendia Gupit is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, video, installation, and drawing to investigate how the climate crisis and global capitalism shape migrant and diasporic experiences. Storytelling and memory serve as critical source material for her mixed-media works. Through papermaking, collage, and mold-and-casting techniques, materials from the artist’s surroundings combine and layer to form multisensory experiences. As a whole, her works telescope from the personal to the global to draw attention to how immigrant and diasporic communities respond to socioeconomic pressures posed by climate change and global capitalism.
Gupit has exhibited her work globally at art spaces including spazioSERRA, in Milan, Italy; Art Fair Philippines and Altro Mondo Creative Space in Manila, Philippines; the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, CA; and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, NY. From 2022 to 2023, she was a U.S. Fulbright Grant recipient pursuing a research project focused on the climate crisis in the Philippines. She obtained her BA in Studio Art from Williams College in 2013 and her MFA from Michigan State University in 2022. Presently, she teaches at the University of Vermont as an Assistant Professor of Art in the School of the Arts.