Born in 1970 in Chandigarh, India.

Education
2002
M.F.A. Photography 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 Shows
2008 - 09
'The Americans' -
Bose Pacia Gallery, Kolkata
Chatterjee and Lal Gallery, Mumbai
Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
Thomas Welton Art Gallery, Stanford University
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Bose Pacia Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
'Where Three Dreams Cross' – 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Exhibition travels to Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2009
'Outside In: Indian Art Abroad', Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
'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 Art Gallery, New Delhi
'Zeitgeist', Curator: Latika Gupta, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
'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' Photographic 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 prizewinners exhibition, exhibition traveled all over India

Residences
Oct – Dec 2005: Photography Residency at Khoj, New Delhi

Photography Related
Since Jan 2007: 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
India Now, published by Textuelle and Thames and Hudson 2007
Sarai Reader 2007
1000 Women for the Peace Prize, published by Scalo 2005

Selected Bibliography
Future Images – A collection of the World's Best Young Photographers, selected by Mario Cresci and Radu Stern, 24Ore Motta Cultura, Italy 2010
Portfolio: Balika Mela Portraits, Ojodopez, An Idea of India, Spain 2010
Gauri Gill: The Americans by Bakirathi Mani, American Quarterly, March 2010
Into Uncharted Worlds by Priya Malhotra, Asian Art news, Hong Kong 2009
Me, Myself and India by Paul Sternberger, Photographies, London 2009
Portfolio: Urban Landscapes, Private Photo Review, Other side of India, France
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 by Alexander Keefe, New Delhi 2008
KHOJ BOOK - Ten years of Khoj Artists, interviewed by Ravi Agarwal, due summer 2010
INDIA: Public Places/Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video Art by Holland Cotter, New York Times newspaper, January 2008
Birth of a Biennale by Helene Cerutti, Photoquai catalogue, Paris, 2007
Pursuit of dreams by Gayatri Sinha, Newark Museum catalogue, Newark 2007
Holding the city open by Ella Dutta Art India magazine, Mumbai, 2008
Indien Schient by Christiane Brosius, Archplus (part of documenta 12 magazines) 2007
Personal Light by Bandeep Singh, India Today magazine, New Delhi, 2007
City Cite Site by Latika Gupta, Gallery Anant catalogue, New Delhi 2008
I fear I believe I desire by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace catalogue, New Delhi 2007
Documenting Indian communities from Rajasthan to Yuba City by Linda Weber, Stanford University magazine, 2002

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