Born in Los Angeles, Nicolei Buendia Gupit is a contemporary Filipina American artist working across installation, sculpture, painting, and video to probe questions on cultural belonging. Her multidisciplinary practice speculates on diasporic futures and entangles the relationship between ecologies, foods, histories, and cultures. Her recent projects use freshwater from lakes and rivers as an artistic medium to highlight issues around the climate and the water crises in the Philippines. Gupit has exhibited her work regionally and globally at various art venues including Art Fair Philippines in Metro Manila, Philippines; We Are South Music & Arts Festival in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA; ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL; and the Painting Center and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, NY.