About
Born in Los Angeles, California, Nicolei Buendia Gupit is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary artist whose visual art practice investigates the impacts of colonial histories, global capitalism, and the climate crisis across the Philippines and its diaspora, reflecting how these forces perpetuate environmental degradation, intensify water scarcity, and drive migration. Working across sculpture, drawing, video, and installation, her practice seeks to uncover erased histories and imagine collective forms of belonging. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Taiwan, and the Philippines. She earned a BA in Studio Art from Williams College (2013) and an MFA in Studio Art from Michigan State University (2022).
My creative research traces how colonial histories, global capitalism, and the climate crisis perpetuate environmental degradation, intensify water scarcity, and drive migration. 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.
CV
EDUCATION
Dean’s List and Karl E. Weston Class of 1896 Prize for Distinction in Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- baka sakali, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
(Jurors: Anthony Marcellini; Janet Teunis; Dalina A. Perdomo Alvarez)
TEACHING Experience
Courses taught:
Drawing I, Summer ‘26
Sculpture, Fall ‘25, Spring ‘26
Counter-Memory as Art, Fall ‘25
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
Courses taught:
Intermediate Drawing, Spring ‘22
Color & Design, Spring ‘21, Fall ‘20
Drawing I, Spring ‘20
Courses taught:
Drawing I, Fall ‘19
Art & Design: Concepts & Practices, Fall ‘19
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