Gauri Gill: Works
Gauri Gill (Indian), Urma and Nimli, Lunkaransar,from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Hanuman Nath with his daughter and Hem Nath, Lunkaransar, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Ismat, Barmer, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Ismat's home, Barmer, from the series Notes from the Desert 1999–2010, 61 x 76 cm, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), New homes after the flood, Lunkaransar, from the series Notes from the Desert,1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Jogi home out in the country, Bikaner, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 76 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Boy bathing in village talaab, Baran, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Installation view, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, 2010, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Nature Morte Gallery
Gauri Gill (Indian), Kanta, from the series Balika Mela Portraits, 2003, archival pigment print, 76 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Goga, from the series Balika Mela Portraits, 2003, archival pigment print, 76 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Rama, from the series Balika Mela Portraits, 2003, archival pigment print, 76 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Sunita, Nirmala and Sita, from the series Balika Mela Portraits, 2003, archival pigment print, 76 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Installation view, Balika Mela, Urmul Setu, Lynkaransar, 2010, from the series Balika Mela Portraits, 2003. Courtesy of the artist © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Home of an Indian art collector, Washington DC, 2002, from the series The Americans, 2002–2007, archival pigment print, 69 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Kundan Singh. Yuba City 2001, 2001, archival pigment print, 69 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery. © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Party for Indian Entrepreneurs, Washington DC, 2002, from the series The Americans, 2002–2007, archival pigment print, 69 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Alok and Sumati Patel – Parekh Silicon Valley, California, 2001, from the series The Americans, 2002–2007, archival pigment print, 69 x 102 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Men in Park/U.S. Mailman, Yuba City, California, 2001, from the series The Americans, 2002–2007, archival pigment prints, 42 x 127 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte Gallery.© 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (Indian), Exhibition of The Americans at Mississauga Central Library, Mississauga, 2011. Courtesy of the artist © 2011 Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill: Video
Gauri Gill: Jury Statement
Gauri Gill has recently emerged as one of India’s most significant young photographers. Gill’s practice is complex because it contains several seemingly discrete lines of pursuit. These include her more than a decade long study of marginalized communities in Rajasthan, of women from different generations and their often tentative encounter with modernity. She has also investigated and recorded issues around migrancy, and the decrepitude and change generated by an expanding city. Working in both black and white as well as colour, she seeks out the narratives of ordinary heroism within challenging environments. Gill’s work also addresses the twinned Indian identity markers of class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour. In these works there is irony, a rugged documentary spirit and a human concern over issues of survival.
Gauri Gill: Bio
Gauri Gill (born 1970). Indian
Gauri Gill was born in Chandigarh, India, in 1970. She received BFAs at the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi (1992) and the Parsons School of Design, New York (1994), and an MFA at Stanford University, California (2002). Since she first started exhibiting in 2007 her work has been exhibited widely in India and across the world. Solo exhibitions include: What Remains, Green Cardamom Gallery, London (2011); Notes from the Desert, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai; Focus Gallery, Chennai, and Urmul Setu, Lunkaransar (2010–2011) and The Americans, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi; Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford University; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Bose Pacia Gallery, Kolkata and New York, and Mississauga Central Library, Mississauga (2008–2011). She lives and works in New Delhi.
