gregg yupanki bautista

b. 1987, NJ 

Gregg is a writer, artist, and musician born and raised in the US to Peruvian immigrants. He received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts with a concentration in Painting. His work explores themes around migration as a natural phenomenon and the potential resulting dissonance of cultural assimilation vs. integration.

Heavily influenced by his Andean heritage, a conceptual music project called Yupanki coalesced from his explorations, with time migrants, memory, nature, and old gods emerging as the framework. The project follows the journey of the eponymous character Yupanki, a lost time migrant with no memories of his past, as he explores a foreign landscape while trying to find the where and when of his home. In 2022, Gregg debuted the music element of this project with Un Lugar Lejos - EP and began performing the music under the name Yupanki. In 2024, more of Yupanki's world was brought into focus with an illustrated collection of poems and short stories to accompany the music, titled Un Lugar Lejos.

Gregg is currently working on the next installment of Yupanki as well as a full length collection of poetry. He also hosts Poets & Storytellers Open, a poetry open mic in Hopewell, NJ. 

Gregg is based somewhere in the Sourlands of NJ.