Nicolei Buendia Gupit, Mga Biyahe, 2025, Discarded cardboard, paper box tape, clear tape, duct tape, archival ink, adhesive, used lottery scratchers, 27.5 x 105 x 15 inches.
Friday, January 16 at 10 AM
Via Zoom
Join us on Zoom on Friday, January 16 at 10 AM EST for a special virtual event featuring multidisciplinary artist Nicolei Buendia Gupit, presenting her solo exhibition Handle with Care. In this talk, Gupit will reflect on her creative processes and conceptual development of this new body of work.
Through mixed-media and sculptural assemblages, Handle with Care weaves personal memory into broader histories of displacement, inviting viewers to consider how intimate acts of care persist within the enduring legacies of empire.
Gupit will then be joined in conversation by Boston-based writer Jewel Pereyra to further examine the exhibition in relation to research on U.S. imperialism, transnational feminisms, and global social and labor movements. The program will conclude with a Q&A, offering audiences the opportunity to engage directly with both speakers. Zoom link provided upon registration.
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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 had recent solo exhibitions of her work in Milan, Italy; Manila, Philippines; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Burlington, VT; and 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 in the School of the Arts.
Jewel Pereyra is a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University. Her first book project, Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Kinship Networks and Relational Performance, re-orients scholarship on Afro-Asian social movements and military histories of the Black Pacific by amplifying Filipina and Black feminist and queer performance genealogies across the long twentieth century. Her dissertation won the 2024 American Studies Association's Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize and her research has been supported by the U.S. Fulbright Program, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her writing also appears or is forthcoming in MELUS, Post45 Contemporaries, and Beyond the X: Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies, and in exhibitions in affiliation with Little Manila Queens and Tufts University Art Galleries.