Gauri Gill
Born 1970, Chandigarh, India
The Artist Lives and Works in New Delhi
Education: 2002 M.F.A. Art, Stanford University, California
1994 B.F.A. Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York
1992 B.F.A. Applied Art, Delhi College of Art, New Delhi
Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Notes from the Desert”- Focus Art Gallery, Chennai
“What Remains”- Green Cardamom Gallery, London
2010
“Notes from the Desert”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai
2008-2009
“The Americans”- Bose Pacia Gallery, Kolkata
Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai
Nature Morte, New Delhi
Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford University
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York
Chatterjee and Lal Gallery, Mumbai
Group Exhibitions
2011
"Generation in Transition: New Art from India"- Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
"Staging Selves: Power, Performativity & Portraiture"- Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
"Something I've been meaning to tell you"- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Hall of Technology”- India Art Summit, New Delhi
2010
“Us Today after Katrina”- Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
“Docutour”- BMB Gallery, Mumbai
“Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh”- Whitechapel Gallery, London
Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
“Punctum II: A critical look at the landscape in South Asia” - Lakeeren, Mumbai
“Light Drifts”- Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai
“Notes from the Desert”- Nature Morte, New Delhi
2009
“Outside In: Indian Art Abroad”- Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
“Rememory”- Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne
“The Astonishment of Being”- Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
“The Self and The Other - Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography”- La Virreina Centre de la
Image, Institut de Cultura (City Council of Barcelona), Palau de La Virreina.
Travels to Atrium in Vitoria
“Shifting Shapes- Unstable Signs”- Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
2008
“The Nature of the City”- Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Zeitgeist”- Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Click! Indian Photography Now”- Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and London
2007
“City Cite Site”- Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
“Photoquai”- Musee Quai Branly, Paris
“Public Places, Private Space”- The Newark Museum, New Jersey
“Autoportraits”- Khoj at Freize Art Fair, London
“Gill and Gupta”- India International Center, New Delhi
“I fear, I believe, I desire”- Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2005
“Women Photographers from SAARC countries”- 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”- Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
“In Black and White - What has Independence meant for Women”- Admit One Gallery, New York
1995
“Prizewinners Exhibition” - Alliance Francaise, India
Residencies
2005
Photography Residency, Khoj, New Delhi
Curation
2010
“Transportraits: Women and Mobility in the City” - In collaboration with Jagori; artists include
Amruta Patil, Priya Sen, Ruhani Kaur, Uzma Mohsin and the collectives Blank Noise
and Lucida - in collaboration with the young people of Madanpur Khadar
2005
“Nobody's Children”- from a decade of working with Delhi's street children by Tarun Chhabra,
India Habitat Center, New Delhi
Writing and Editorial
Since Jan 2007: Co-founder and co-editor with Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh of 'Camerawork Delhi' a free newsletter about independent photography from New Delhi and elsewhere
Books
Civil Lines 2010
India Now 2007
Sarai Reader 2007
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
Selected Bibligraphy
Special portfolio from “Notes from the Desert”, Du magazine, Switzerland 2010
“On Gauri Gill’s Notes from the Desert” by Anita Dube, Art India Magazine 2010
“Future Images - A collection of the World’s Best Young Photographers” selected by
Mario Cresci and Radu Stern, 24 Ore Motta Cultura, Italy 2010
Portfolio: “Nizamuddin at Night”, text by Alexander Keefe, Marg magazine, Mumbai 2010
“Beyond Photoshop” by Deepanjana Pal, The Caravan magazine, New Delhi 2010
“Notes from the Desert”, Maya Kovskaya, www.artinfo.com 2010
“More than a thousand words”, Veerangana Solanki, Economic Times, New Delhi 2010
“Nomad Land”, Jane Mikkelsen, TimeOut, New Delhi 2010
Portfolio: “Balika Mela Portraits”, Ojodopez, An Idea of India, Spain 2010
Portfolio: “The Americans”, Gup Magazine, Netherlands 2010
“The Americans” by Bakirathi Mani, American Quarterly, March 2010
“The Americans” by Deeksha Nath, edited by Shaheen Merali, Take on Art Magazine, New Delhi 2010
“Khoj Book - Ten years of Khoj Artists”, interviewed by Ravi Agarwal 2010
“Into Uncharted Worlds” by Priya Malhotra, Asian Art News, Hong Kong 2009
“Me, Myself and India” by Paul Sternberger, Photographies, London 2009 “Urban Landscapes”, Private Photo Review, Other Side of India, France 2009
“Comments on The Americans” by Christopher Pinney, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago 2008
“The Uneven Promise of a New Land” by Marina Budhos, Tehelka magazine, New Delhi 2008
“Vast Native Thoughts” by Aveek Sen, Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata 2008
“The Nature of the City”, catalogue essay by Alexander Keefe, New Delhi 2008
“Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art” by Holland Cotter;
The New York Times newspaper, January 2008
“City Cite Site”, catalogue essay by Latika Gupta, Gallery Anant, New Delhi 2008
“Holding the City Open” by Ella Dutta, Art India magazine, Mumbai 2008
“Birth of a Biennale” by Helene Cerutti, Photoquai catalogue, Paris 2007
“Pursuit of Dreams” by Gayatri Sinha, Newark Museum catalogue, Newark 2007
“Indien Schient” by Christiane Brosius, Archplus (part of documenta 12 magazines) 2007
“Personal Light” by Bandeep Singh, India Today magazine, New Delhi 2007
“I fear, I believe, I desire” by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace catalogue, New Delhi 2007
Awards
Fifty Crows Award (formerly a project of Mother Jones magazine), San Francisco 2002
Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography, Stanford University 2001
Nathan Oliviera Fellowship, Stanford University 2000
Prizewinner, Alliance Francaise National Photography Contest New Delhi 1995