Gauri Gill

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Gauri Gill (b. 1970) is an artist and photographer based in New Delhi, India. Working in both black and white, and colour, Gill addresses the Indian identity markers of caste, class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour. She has exhibited within India and internationally, including the 58th Biennale de Venezia (Venice), Museum Tinguely (Basel), MoMA PS1 (New York), Documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel), Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 (Kochi), the 7th Moscow Biennale (Moscow), Wiener Library (London), and the Whitechapel Gallery (London). Her work is in the collections of prominent institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Museum (London), the Smithsonian (Washington), the Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection (Dubai), and Fotomuseum (Winterthur). In 2011 she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada’s foremost award for photography.