Gauri GillAn Intimate Practice

Artist leaning on white gallery wall in front of their work
Gauri Gill at her exhibition The Mark on the Wall, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, April 2016. Photo by Anil Rane. Courtesy of Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke.

As an art student in India, Gauri Gill trained as a painter, earning a BFA in applied art from the Delhi College of Art in 1992. She studied photography in New York at the Parsons School of Design, earning a second BFA in 1994. The artist worked for five years as a photojournalist for a news magazine, slowly developing a way of working intimately with her subject. “I feel like part of my job as a photographer is just to listen,”1 said Gill, whose work represents those who live on the margins due to race, ethnicity, or class.

  1. Gauri Gill, in Andrew Russeth, “Part of My Job Is Just to Listen: Photographer Gauri Gill on Her Peripatetic Art,” ARTnews.com, July 24, 2018, available at artnews.com/art-news/artists/part-job-just-listen-photographer-gauri-gill-peripatetic-art-10697/. ↩︎