GAURI GILL
Born in Chandigarh, India in 1970
EDUCATION
2002: M.F.A. Photography Stanford University, California
Awarded one of five artists' fellowships. Electives in Anthropology, Psychology and Gender Studies
1994: B.F.A. Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York
Studied with Geoffrey Biddle and Lillian Bassman, interned with Mary Ellen Mark
1992: B.F.A. Applied Art, Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
RESIDENCIES
Oct – Dec 2005: Photography Residency at Khoj, New Delhi
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008:'Click! Indian Photography Now', Curators: Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and London
2007:'City Cite Site', Curator Latika Gupta, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2007:'Photoquai', Curator: Helene Cerruti, Musee Quai Branly, Paris
2007:'Public Places, Private Spaces' - Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, Curators: Paul Sternberger and Gayatri Sinha, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
2007:'Autoportraits' Photography Portfolio of 12 Indian artists, Khoj at Freize Art Fair, London
2007:'Gill and Gupta', Curator: Radhika Singh India International Center, New Delhi
2007:'I fear I believe I desire', Curator Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2005:'The Incredible Moment' - Fundraising show of contemporary Indian photography, New Delhi
2005:'Women Photographers from SAARC countries', Curator: Alka Pande, Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi
2002: Award Winners Show, Fifty Crows Foundation, San Francisco
1998:'In Black and White' - What has Independence meant for Women, (Point of View/Ford Foundation) Admit One Gallery, New York
1995: Alliance Francaise Prizewinners exhibition, exhibition traveled all over India
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
2002 – 2005: Independent projects and freelance assignments – such as 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize, extended photo-essay on the 1984 Sikh pogrom victims for Tehelka, New Internationalist, Newsweek, Fortune, Mint newspaper, Outlook, Marie Claire, First City, Oxford University Press, India magazine, Archplus, non-profits such as Jagori, MKSS, Cansupport etc.
1995 – 2000: Photographer with Outlook Magazine, New Delhi
TEACHING AND TALKS
Aug 2003 - present: Teaching photography at the American School, New Delhi
Nov 2007: Talk and exhibit of work from Rajasthan at the Conference on Women in the Emerging Indian Economy, Center for Social Action, Christ College, Bangalore
Apr 2007: Conducted workshop with local photographers on photographing the city, Goethe Institute, Kabul
2003 – 2005: Conducted a series of photography workshops with a group of rural teenage girls through the non-profit Urmul Setu Sansthan, Lunkaransar, Rajasthan
Jun 2002 – Jul 2002: Taught Photography through the summer program, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University
Jan 2002 – Aug 2002: Taught Photo I and Photo for Non-Majors, Stanford University
Feb 2002: Conducted workshop on photography in Visual Anthropology seminar, Stanford University
Nov 2001: Presented work in Jim Goldberg's class on Documentary Photography, California College of Arts and Crafts
Sept 1996: Taught workshop: 'The Personal Voice in Documentary Photography at Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi
PHOTOGRAPHY RELATED
Since Jan 2007: Co-editor of 'Camerawork Delhi' a free newsletter of independent photography
2005: Curator of 'Nobody's Children' - a photography exhibit on Delhi's street children by Tarun Chhabra, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
BOOKS
India Now, published by Textuelle and Thames and Hudson 2007
Sarai Reader 2007
1000 Women for the Peace Prize, published by Scalo 2005
FILM PROJECTS
1996 – 99: Documented Awadhi culture and the city of Lucknow; and the Sufi singer Abida Parveen, over several visits, for film director Muzaffar Ali
1996: Photographs were part of the documentary 'Present Imperfect Future Tense' on Delhi by Raqs Media Collective for Irish television
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
KHOJ BOOK - Ten years of Khoj Artists, interviewed by Ravi Agarwal, due summer 2008
INDIA: Public Places/Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video Art by Holland Cotter, New York Times newspaper, January 2008
Birth of a Biennale by Helene Cerutti, Photoquai catalogue, Paris, 2007
Pursuit of dreams by Gayatri Sinha, Newark Museum catalogue, Newark 2007
Holding the city open by Ella Dutta Art India magazine, Mumbai, 2008
Landscapes by Georgina Maddox, Indian Express newspaper 2008
Indien Schient by Christiane Brosius, Archplus (part of documenta 12 magazines) 2007
Personal Light by Bandeep Singh, India Today magazine, New Delhi, 2007
City Cite Site by Latika Gupta, Gallery Anant catalogue, New Delhi 2008
I fear I believe I desire by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace catalogue, New Delhi 2007
Documenting Indian communities from Rajasthan to Yuba City by Linda Weber, Stanford University magazine, 2002
AWARDS
Fifty Crows Award (formerly a project of Mother Jones magazine), Fifty Crows Foundation, San Francisco, 2002
Senior Arts Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, University of Chicago, 2002
Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography, Stanford University, 2001
Nathan Oliviera Fellowship, Stanford University, 2000
Second Prize, Alliance Francaise National Photography Contest New Delhi 1995