Gauri Gill


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1970
Born in Chandigarh, India
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
Selected Solo Shows
2010
Notes from the Desert, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2009
Shifting Shapes –Unstable Signs; Curated by Robert Storr and Jaret
2008-9
The Americans, catalogue essay by Gayatri Sinha. Bose Pacia, Kolkatta; Matthieu Foss Gallery Mumbai; Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Bose Pacia, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
US Today: After Katrina, Curators: Phillipe Durand and Joerg Bader, Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Lyon
Docutour, Curator: Bose Krishnamachari, BMB Gallery, Mumbai
Notes from the Desert, Nature Morte Gallery at Art Basel, Basel
Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Exhibition travels to Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Punctum II – A Critical Look at the Landscape in South Asian Photography, Curator: Arshiya Lonkhandwala, Lakeeren, Mumbai
2009
Outside In: Indian Art Abroad, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Indiana Rememory, Two-person show with Tomoko Yoneda, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne
The Astonishment of Being, Curator: Deeksha Nath, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
The Self and The Other, Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography, Curators: Luisa Ortinez and Devika Daulet Singh, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge of the Institut de Cultura (City Council of Barcelona), Palau de La Virreina. Exhibition travels to Atrium in Vitoria
Shifting Shapes –Unstable Signs Curators: Robert Storr and Jaret Vadehra, Yale Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
2008
The Nature of the City, Curators Alexander Keefe and Nitin Mukul, Religare Arts Initiative Gallery, New Delhi
Zeitgeist, Curator: Latika Gupta, Pallette Art Gallery, New Delhi
The Astonishment of Being, Curator: Deeksha Nath, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
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
Photoquai, Curator Helene Cerruti, Musee Quai Branly, Paris
Public Places, Private Spaces - Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, Curators Paul Sternberger and Gayatri Sinha, The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Autoportraits Photography Portfolio of 12 Indian artists, Khoj at Freize Art Fair, London
Gill and Gupta, Curator Radhika Singh India International Center, New Delhi
I fear I believe I desire, Curator Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, 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 Prize winners exhibition, exhibition traveled all over India
Residencies
2005
Photography Residency at Khoj, New Delhi
Photography Related
2000-current
Co-editor of Camerawork Delhi a free newsletter about independent photography from New Delhi and elsewhere
2005
Curator of Nobody's Children - a photography exhibit on Delhi's street children by Tarun Chhabra, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
Books
2010
Civil Lines, published by Tranquebar Press
2007
India Now, published by Textuelle and Thames and Hudson Sarai Reader
2005
1000 Women for the Peace Prize, published by Scalo
Selected Bibliography
2010
On Gauri Gill’s Notes from the Desert, by Anita Dube, Art India Magazine, India
Future Images – A collection of the World's Best Young Photographers, selected by Mario Cresci and Radu Stern, 24Ore Motta Cultura, Italy
KHOJ BOOK - Ten years of Khoj Artists, interviewed by Ravi Agarwal Portfolio: Balika Mela Portraits, Ojodopez, An Idea of India, Spain
Gauri Gill: The Americans by Bakirathi Mani, American Quarterly
2009
Into Uncharted Worlds by Priya Malhotra, Asian Art news, Hong Kong
Me, Myself and India by Paul Sternberger, Photographies, London
2008
Portfolio: Urban Landscapes, Private Photo Review, Other side of India, France
Holding the city open by Ella Dutta Art India magazine, Mumbai Comments on The Americans by Christopher Pinney, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
The Uneven Promise of a New Land by Marina Budhos, Tehelka magazine, New Delhi
Vast Native Thoughts by Aveek Sen, Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata
The Nature of the City by Alexander Keefe, New Delhi
INDIA: Public Places/Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video Art by Holland Cotter, New York Times newspaper
2007
Birth of a Biennale by Helene Cerutti, Photoquai catalogue, Paris
Pursuit of dreams by Gayatri Sinha, Newark Museum catalogue, Newark
Indien Schient by Christiane Brosius, Archplus (part of documenta 12 magazines
Personal Light by Bandeep Singh, India Today magazine, New Delhi
City Cite Site by Latika Gupta, Gallery Anant catalogue, New Delhi
I fear I believe I desire by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace catalogue, New Delhi
Documenting Indian communities from Rajasthan to Yuba City by Linda Weber, Stanford University magazine
Awards
2002
Fifty Crows Award (formerly a project of Mother Jones magazine), San Francisco
2001
Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography, Stanford University
2000
Nathan Oliviera Fellowship, Stanford University
1995
Prizewinner, Alliance Francaise National Photography Contest New Delhi