Artist Statement

Nicolei Buendia Gupit (she/her) is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, video, installation, papermaking, and drawing to investigate how the American dream, meritocracy, and global capitalism shape migrant and diasporic experiences. Storytelling and memory serve as critical sources of inspiration for her mixed-media works. Through handmade paper, assemblage, 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, drawing attention to how immigrant and diasporic communities respond to the socioeconomic pressures posed by global capitalism.

Artist Bio

Gupit has exhibited her work globally at art spaces including spazioSERRA in Milan, Italy; Altro Mondo Creative Space in Manila, Philippines; the Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in San Jose, CA; and the Painting Center and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, NY. She obtained her BA in Studio Art from Williams College in 2013 and her MFA from Michigan State University in 2022. She teaches at the University of Vermont as an Assistant Professor of Art.