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. 

Post-BFA, he began developing a conceptual project over a few years that experimented with combining visual art, writing, and music while continuing to examine the phenomena of migration and the resulting cultural integration vs. assimilation, the underlying themes explored in his paintings. 

Heavily influenced by his indigenous heritage, Yupanki coalesced from these experiments, with time migrants, memory, nature, and old gods emerging as the themes. As Yupanki, Gregg began performing in 2022 and debuted Un Lugar Lejos - EP that same year. This first EP follows Yupanki, a lost time migrant who has also lost his memory, as he explores a foreign landscape while trying to find the where and when of his home. In 2024, Gregg brought more of Yupanki's world into focus with an illustrated collection of poems and short stories to accompany the music, eponymously titled Un Lugar Lejos. 

He regularly performs in the NJ, NY, PA region and 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.