About

Bio

Nicolei Buendia Gupit (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary artist. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Williams College (2013) and an MFA from Michigan State University (2022). Presently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art in the School of the Arts at the University of Vermont.


Statement

Employing techniques such as weaving, papermaking, assemblage, and mold-and-casting, Nicolei Buendia Gupit’s creative research interrogates the ways global capitalism, climate change, and colonial histories impact the experiences of immigrant and diasporic communities. Storytelling and memory serve as critical sources of inspiration for her mixed-media works. Through papermaking, assemblage, and mold-and-casting techniques, she combines and layers materials from her surroundings to create multisensory experiences.

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EDUCATION

2022MFA in Studio Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
2013BA in Studio Art (Honors), Williams College, Williamstown, MA, US
Dean’s List and Karl E. Weston Class of 1896 Prize for Distinction in Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026Handle with Care, A.I.R. Gallery,Brooklyn, NY, US
2025Tawid Dagat, Invitational Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Curator: Nien Cheng Wu)
2025Tethered, South End Art Hop, The Vaults, Burlington, VT, US
2025
    baka sakali, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2025Our Seas Interwoven, Francis Colburn Gallery, Burlington, VT, US
2024Mother/land, Invitational Exhibition, Altro Mondo Creative Space, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
2023Migrant Belonging(s), Juried Exhibition, spazioSERRA, Milan, Italy (Juror/Curator: The SERRA Collective)
2023Imprinted in the Water, Sining Makiling Gallery, Laguna, Philippines
2022Decolonial Dream, Juried Exhibition, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI, US
(Jurors: Anthony Marcellini; Janet Teunis; Dalina A. Perdomo Alvarez)
2022paraiso/paraíso/paradise, Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
TEACHING Experience

2025 — PresentFull-Time, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, US
Courses taught: Sculpture, Fall ‘25, Spring ‘26; Counter-Memory as Art, Fall ‘25; Drawing, Summer ‘26
2023 — 2025 Full-Time Henderson-Harris Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, US
Courses taught: Sculpture, Spring ‘25; Counter-Memory as Art, Spring ‘24, Fall ‘24;
Fashion, Textile, and 3D Design Independent Study, Spring ‘24; Advanced Drawing, Fall ‘23
2020 — 2022 Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
Courses taught: Intermediate Drawing, Spring ‘22; Color and Design, Spring ‘21, Fall ‘20; Drawing I, Spring ‘20
2019Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
Courses taught: Drawing I, Fall ‘19; Art & Design: Concepts and Practices, Fall ‘19
Nicolei Buendia Gupit
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