CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1970, Chandigarh, India
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
Lives in New Delhi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Biennale Images Vevey 2024, Public Installation, Artistic Director Stefano Stoll, Vevey
2024 PhEST 2024 – See Beyond the Sea, Artistic Director Giovanni Troilo with photography curator
Arianna Rinaldo, Monopoli
2024 Looking for Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000–2007, curated by Roma A. Patel
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2023 The Village on the Highway, print commission for the opening of the Photography Centre,
curated by Dr Marta Weiss, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2023 Gauri Gill: Acts of Resistance and Repair, curated by Esther Schlicht and Tine Colstrup,
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
2021 A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, James Cohan, New York
2019 Object/Set: Gauri Gill‘s Act of Appearance, curated by Anna Lee, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2019 Acts of Appearance, curated by Grace Partridge for Antidote: A Festival of Ideas, Action and
Change', Sydney Opera House, Sydney
2018 Traces, in dialogue with Jean Tinguely‘s Mengele - Totentanz,
curated by Roland Wetzel, Museum Tinguely, Basel
2018 Acts of Appearance, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2016 Notes from the Desert: Photographs by Gauri Gill, Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington DC
2016 The Mark on the Wall, Galerie Mirchandani and Steinruecke, Mumbai
2014 Balika Mela and Jannat, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2012 Balika Mela, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Book Launch at Fotomuseum, Winterthur
2011 What Remains, Green Cardamom Gallery, London
2010 Notes from the Desert, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai;
Focus Gallery, Chennai; Urmul Setu Sansthan, Lunkaransar
2008- The Americans, Bose Pacia Gallery, Kolkata; Chatterjee and Lal Gallery, Mumbai;
2011 Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford University;
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Bose Pacia Gallery, New York;
Missisauga Central Library, Missisauga
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 I Will Meet You Yet Again: Contemporary Sikh Art, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles,
curated by Sonia Dhami and Syona Puliady
2024 Anicca - Change, Life, World, curated by Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow
Licchavi House, Kathmandu
2023- Prix Pictet Exhibition, Human, 2023, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
2024 TERN Gallery, Nassau; Central Bank of Bahamas, Nassau; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo;
School of the Arts, Singapore; Luma Westbau, Zurich; Fotografiska, Stockholm;
Arter, Istanbul
2023- RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, curated by Alona Pardo,
2024 Barbican Centre, London; FOMU, Antwerp
2023 NGV Triennial 2023, NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Not standing still: new approaches in documentary photography, curated by Pippa Milne and
Daniel Boetker-Smith, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia
2020 When All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Exploring the Intersection of the Folk and the Modern
in Postcolonial India, curated by UC Berkeley History of Art Assistant Professor Atreyee Gupta and
BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder with Associate Curator Stephanie Cannizzo
and undergraduate and graduate students
2019 Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, Greg A. Hill; Christine Lalonde; and
Rachelle Dickenson, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2017 Memories from the Futures: Indian Modernities, curated by Catherine David,
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2017 Clouds ⇄ Forests, curated by Yoko Hasegawa, 7th Moscow Biennale
New Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
2017 Documenta 14, Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk, Athens, Greece; Kassel, Germany
2017 Balika Mela at ICP for International Womens Day, International Center for Photography, New York
2016- forming in the pupil of an eye, curated by Sudarshan Shetty, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala
2017
2016 Dislocation/Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia,
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
2016 Unsuspending Disbelief, curated by Laura Letinsky, Logan Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago
2016 Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India, curated by Ratan Vaswani, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai and ‘Jeevanchakra‘, curated by Latika Gupta, Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2015 Picture This: Contemporary Photography and India, curated by Nathaniel Stein,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2015 Ruins and Fabrications, curated by Bakirathi Mani, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia
2015 POST DATE: Photography and Inherited History in India, curated by Jodi Throckmorton,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas
2015 Nameless here for evermore, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi
2015 My Memory, Your History: Narratives on the North, curated by Priya Pall,
Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2014 The Missing Pavilion, curated by Gayatri Sinha and JNU students, School of Arts and Aesthetics,
JNU, New Delhi
2014 Ways of Seeing: Gauri Gill and Seher Shah, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata
2014 1984, The Wiener Library, London
2014 Rectangular Squares, curated by Esa Epstein, Sepia Eye Gallery, New York
2014 Punctum Reflections on Photography, curated by Seamus Healey,
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2014 Invisible Cities, curated by Bhooma Padmanabhan, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2014 Ganjad Portraits, Regal Cinema Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi;
Ganjad Primary School, Ganjad
2014 Forms of Activism: 25 years of Sahmat, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2014 Insert 2014, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts,
New Delhi
2014 Aesthetic Bind Citizen Artist: forms of address, curated by Geeta Kapur,
Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
2014 Delhi Photo Festival, Habitat Center, New Delhi
2014 Lines of Control: Partition as a productive space,
curated by Iftikhar Dadi and Hammad Nasar, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
2014 Duende, curated by Gitanjali Dang, Rote Fabrik, Zurich
2014 A Photograph is Not an Opinion – Contemporary Photography by Women,
curated by Sunil Gupta and Veerangana Solanki, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2012 The Needle on the Gauge, curated by Ranjit Hoskote,
The Contemporary Art Institute of Southern Australia, Adelaide
2012 There Was A Country Where They Were All Thieves, curated by Natasha Ginwala,
Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2012 The Portrait: Contemporary Indian Photography, curated by Devika Daulet Singh,
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2012 Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space, curated by Hammad Nasar,
Iftikhar Dadi and Ellen Avril, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University;
Nasher Museum, Duke University
2012 Cynical Love: Life in the Everyday, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art,
New Delhi
2011 The Grange Prize Exhibition, curated by Michelle Jacques, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2011 Step Across This Line, Contemporary artists from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan,
curated by Deeksha Nath, Asia House, London
2011 The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2011 Generation in Transition, curated by Magda Kardasz, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2011 Staging Selves: Power, Performativity and Portraiture, curated by Maya Kovskaya,
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 Homespun, curated by Girish Shahane, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi
2011 Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora,
curated by Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, SF State Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
2011 The Americans, curated by Haema Sivanesan, Mississauga Central Library, Mississauga.
Featured exhibition in Contact Photo Festival (solo)
2011 Something I‘ve been meaning to tell you, curated by Sunil Gupta and Vidya Shivadas,
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 Hall of Technology, Artist Project, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi
2010 Where Three Dreams Cross, curated by Sunil Gupta, 150 years of photography from India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
BOOKS
2014 1984, document released on Kafila.online, free to download, New Delhi
2012 Balika Mela, published by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich
2008 The Americans, published by Nature Morte/Bose Pacia
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2024: ‘Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024’, The Photographers’ Gallery, London;
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt
2023: Prix Pictet Award, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2022: Inaugural Roberta Bowman Denning Visiting Artist, Stanford University
2018: India Today Art Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tate Museum, London
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai