NICOLEI BUENDIA GUPIT


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Bio

Nicolei Buendia Gupit (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the impact of colonial histories, global capitalism, and the climate crisis on immigrant and diasporic communities. Through papermaking, net weaving, mold-and-casting, and assemblage, she draws on storytelling and memory to address themes of belonging and displacement.

Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Taiwan, and the Philippines. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Williams College (2013) and an MFA from Michigan State University (2022), and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Vermont.




Statement

Working across sculpture, drawing, video, and installation, my creative research traces how colonial histories, global capitalism, and the climate crisis impact immigrant and diasporic communities. My practice also exposes how these forces perpetuate environmental degradation, intensify water scarcity, and drive migration within these communities. Often using the Filipino-American experience as a lens into broader diasporic conditions, I create multisensory works that interweave personal, family, and collective histories to explore themes of belonging and displacement. Through process-based methods such as papermaking, net weaving, image transfer, mold-and-casting, and assemblage, my works express memory-making as an embodied process through imperfect repetition, ritualization, and ongoing negotiations between cultures. At its core, my practice seeks to uncover erased histories and imagine new collective forms of belonging.



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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:
Drawing I, Summer ‘26
Sculpture, Fall ‘25, Spring ‘26
Counter-Memory as Art, Fall ‘25

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/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 & 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 & Practices, Fall ‘19


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