Rupali Gupte is an architect, artist and urbanist based in Mumbai. She is a co-founder of and director and Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), and a partner at BardStudio. She has recently been a senior Research fellow at the University of Brighton. Her work involves extensive research on contemporary South Asian architecture and urbanism with a focus on housing and urban form, tactical spatial practices, and the role of gender in shaping habitation. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms - writings, drawings, mixed-media works, installations, curation, conversations, walks and spatial interventions. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally in biennales including the 56th Venice Art Biennale, X Sao Paolo Biennale of Art and Architecture, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, Dhaka Art Summit, and galleries and museums such as MACBA Barcelona, MAAT Museum Lisbon, Mumbai Art Room, Devi Art Foundation, Project 88 and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

She has been on numerous juries and has lectured widely across the world.