Texts – GAURI GILL

En Liang Khong: ‘Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2024: Never mind the curatorial neuroses – this is a shortlist to cherish’, The Telegraph, 2024

Monocle: ‘Village vanguard’, Monocle, 2024

Gauri Gill: ‘On Seeing’, in ‘Another Lens’ edited by Rahaab Allana, Tulika books, 2024

Tessa Solomon: ‘A Survey of Contemporary Sikh Art in Los Angeles Expands South Asian History’, Art News, 2024

N.P. Krishna Kumar: ‘Ishara show by Gauri Gill explores ties between City, Nature, and the Sacred’, Al Arabiya News, 2024

Ebenezer Mensah: ’Ishara Art Foundation Debuts ‘Sheher, Prakriti, Devi’: Gauri Gill’s Vision of a Unity in Dubai’, BNN Breaking, 2024

The Indian Express: ‘“Sheher, Prakriti, Devi”: Dubai exhibition explores the interconnectedness of cities, nature, and the divine’, The Indian Express, 2024

BNN Breaking: ‘Gauri Gill Spearheads Groundbreaking Exhibition in Dubai: Exploring the Nexus of Urbanity, Nature and Divinity’, BNN Breaking, 2024

Edward Liamzon: ‘In pictures/ Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to present Sheher, Prakriti, Devi, an exhibition that marks artist and photographer Gauri Gill’s first extensive curation’, Arabian Business, 2024

Middle East Masala: ‘Sheher, Prakriti, Devi — an ensemble exhibition at Ishara Art Foundation’, Middle East Masala, 2024

Emma Hodgson: ‘Ishara Art Foundation Launches New “Sheher, Prakriti, Devi” Exhibit In Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue’, AE World, 2024

Fi Churchman: ‘The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in February 2024’, ArtReview, 2024

Rica Cerbarano: ‘Gauri Gill: Photography is an act of Love’, Il Giornale Dell’arte, 2023

Charlotte Jansen: ‘The best photography shows of 2023’, The Guardian, 2023

Eli Anapur: ‘Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 Announces Shortlisted Artists’, Widewalls, 2023

Mark Westall: ‘Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 Shortlist revealed.’, FAD Magazine, 2023

Christian Caujolle: ‘Apparent Reality’, Internazionale, September 29/October 5, 2023

Portfolio: Osmos, 2023

Architects and Interiors India: ‘Immerse yourself into the world of 21 different perspectives at Delhi’s group exhibition’, Architect and Interiors India, 2023

Neha Kirpal: ‘Tuning into beauty and brutality’, Deccan Herald, 2023

Sukant Deepak: ‘Gauri Gill is only the label put on a whole set of processes and people who express themselves through me, says the 2023 Prix Pictet-winning photographer’, IANS Life, 2023

John Hawkins: ‘Human Conditionals: The Girl Who Looked in the Mirror of the World’, Modern Times Review, 2023

Charlotte Jansen: ‘Prix Pictet Human at the V&A review: an exhilarating, scary photographic journey’, The Guardian, 2023

Zahra Khan: ‘”Human” – the 10th edition of Prix Pictet at the V&A, London’, Stir World, 2023

Financial Times: ‘Gauri Gill is the Prix Pictet Laureate’, Financial Times, 2023

The Guardian: ‘Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures’, The Guardian, 2023

The Wire: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill Wins the 10th Prix Pictet Award’, The Wire, 2023

Issy Ronald: ‘Prix Pictet photography contest winner captures the beauty and harshness of life in rural Rajasthan’, CNN Style, 2023

Josie Thaddeus-Johns: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill wins the 10th Prix Pictet’, Artsy, 2023

Vaaswat Sarkar: ‘Inside Gauri Gill’s Prix Pictet Award-Winning Photo Series ‘Notes from the Desert’, Homegrown, 2023

Monocle: ‘Human interest’, Monocle, 2023

Jaron Schneider: ‘Photographer Wins a Gargantuan $109,000 in 10th Prix Pictet Awards’, Peta Pixel, 2023

ArtReview: ‘Gauri Gill wins the Prix Pictet’, ArtReview, 2023

Anna Lentchner: ‘Gauri Gill Wins Leading European Photo Award’, ArtAsiaPacific, 2023

Megan Williams: ’Photographer Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet 2023’, Creative Review, 2023

Apolline Coëffet: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill wins the tenth edition of the Prix Pictet’, Fisheye, 2023

Critical Collective: ‘Gauri Gill: A Profile’, Critical Collective, 2023

Gerry Brakus: ‘The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist’, New Statesman, 2023

The Times: ‘Prix Pictet: Sustainability – photography prize explores the plight of humans worldwide’, The Times, 2023

Guy Lane: ‘Prix Pictet shortlist 2023: Human – in pictures’, The Guardian, 2023

Dale Berning Sawa: ‘“Rural life is being written out”: Gauri Gill on photographing India’s forgotten people’, The Guardian, 2023

Ravi Ghosh: ‘Vehicles for change: Gauri Gill on capturing the Indian farmers’ protests’, British Journal of Photography, 2023

Daniel Milroy Maher: ‘Gauri Gill’s photographs of indigenous Indian artists reimagines the power of mask-making traditions’, It’s Nice That, 2023

Archa Desai: ‘Creating an ‘Intersectional Third Space’ for Contemporary Art in India’, Department of Art Education School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023

Trine Ross: ‘Masterful photographer highlights the problems created by the narrow-minded patriarchy in India’, Politiken, 2023

Birgitte Ellemann Höegh: ‘Empathy, stamina and posing girls’, Berlingske, 2023

Tom Jørgensen: ‘Louisiana’s outstanding Gauri Gill exhibition showcases people that many middle-class Indians know very little about’, Jyllands-Posten, 2023

Linda Fagerström: ‘A delightful photo knockout’, Sydsvenskan, 2023

Sonja Furu: ‘Owning your papier-mâché mask’, Weekendavisen, 2023

Susanne Asal: ‘How Gauri Gill became Alice in Wonderland’, Strandgut, 2022

Ursula Grünenwald: ‘Resistant Existences’, Faust Kultur, 2023

Kia Vahland: ‘In Close-Up’, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2022

Freddy Langer: ‘Like Alice Down the Rabbit Hole’, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2022

Ronja Merkel: ‘Exhibition: Acts of Resistance and Repair – The Storyteller’, Tagesspiegel, 2022

Rebecca Hanna John: ‘An Archive of Encounters’, Schirn Mag, 2022

Shraddha Nair: ‘Gauri Gill’s ‘Acts of Resistance and Repair’ presents over 20 years of her work’, Stir World, 2022

Sandra Danicke: ‘Of Signs and Signified’, Art Magazine, October Edition, 2022

Lisa Berins: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill at the Schirn – Everyday Life from the Indian Desert’, Frankfurter Rundschau, 2022

Katharina J. Cichosch: ‘About Masks and People’, Journal Frankfurt, 2022

Isabelle Hammer: ‘Distance Becomes Closeness. Gauri Gill’s “The Americans”’, Schirn Mag, 2022

Fabien Ribery: ‘Diversités indiennes, par Gauri Gill, photographe’, Le blog de Fabien Ribery, 2022

Eva-Maria Magel: ‘There are many Indias in one India’, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2022

Christian Huther: ‘People and Masks’, Frankfurter Neue Presse, 2022

Aybuke Barkcin: ‘Acts of Appearance by Gauri Gill: a new fictional tale in rural India’, Lampoon Magazine, 2022

Rashmi Viswanathan: ‘Playing with Photographs’, Trans Asia Photography, Duke University Press, 2022

Shreya Agrawal: ‘Maps of Disquiet’: Chennai Photo Biennale addresses the exigencies of our time’, The Indian Express, 2021

Gayatri Sinha: ‘The Biennale in Covid Times’, Critical Collective, 2021

Mario D’Souza: ‘Gauri Gill, Vinnie Gill and Ladhki Devi’, Review in Artforum, 2021

Shreya Ajmani: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill Unites with Debuting Artists Vinnie Gill and Ladhki Devi’, Art She Says, 2021

Gautam Bhan: ‘Fossils of the Future: Notes on Rememory and the Urban’, Essay for Sheher, Prakriti Devi, 2021

Natasha Ginwala: ‘The Goddess Who Created This Passing World’, Essay for Sheher, Prakriti Devi, 2021

Jerry Saltz: ‘The Best New York Art Shows of 2021’, Vulture, 2021

Holland Cotter: ‘What to See In N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now’, The New York Times, 2021

Shreevatsa Nevatia: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill ditches the classical for a less-idealised, everyday version of art and life’, India Today, 2021

Artnet News: ‘Feeling Overwhelmed? 16 Artists Share Their Best Self-Care Tips, From Eating Cookies to Walking in Graveyards’, Artnet News, 2021

Christopher Alessandrini: ‘Gauri Gill A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance’, The Guide.Art

Will Fenstermaker: ‘Staging Images: Gauri Gill Interviewed’, Bomb Magazine, 2021

Will Heinrich and Holland Cotter: ‘TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene’, The New York Times, 2021

Johanna Fateman: ‘Gauri Gill’, The New Yorker, 2021

Hemant Sareen: ‘A Time to Play’, Essay for A Time to Play: New Scenes from Acts of Appearance, 2021

Siddhartha Mitter: ‘Seeking Art That Expands the Possibilities for a Troubled World’, The New York Times, 2021

Gauri Gill: ‘Jis tann lãgé soee jãné’, ‘Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound’ edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2021

Mimi Chu: ‘Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland’, Frieze, 2021

Hanna B. Hölling: ‘Keeping Time: On Museum, Temporality and Heterotopia’, ArtMatters International Journal for Technical Art History, Special Issue #1, 2021

Harveen Sachdeva Mann: ‘1984 and the Anti-Sikh Pogroms: Gauri Gill’s Photo Narrativization of the (Continuing) “Horrors of Those Weeks”’, Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century, 2021

Gauri Gill: Gauri Gill (410), This Long Century, 2020

Gauri Gill: ‘Jis tann lãgé soee jãné: The 1984 Pogrom’, Marg magazine special issue on Art and Conflict, Edited by Glenn D. Lowry, 2020

Gauri Gill: ‘These photographs have felt meditative, offering glimpses of clarity in a comforting darkness’, Interview with Benita Fernando on Nizamuddin at Night, Indian Express, 2020

Portfolio: Du magazine, 2019

Hemant Sareen: ‘Complex Seeing: Acts of Appearance, Gauri Gill’, Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2019

Laura Cumming: ‘Venice Biennale 2019 review – preaching to the converted’, The Guardian, 2019

Ben Davis: ‘In Ralph Rugoff’s Venice Biennale, the World’s Artists Take Planetary Doom as a Given, But Search for Joy Nonetheless’, artnet news, 2019

Dale Berning Sawa: ‘Gauri Gill’s best photograph: a rat nursing an elderly woman’, Guardian newspaper, 2019

Andrew Russeth: ‘Part of My Job Is Just to Listen’: Photographer Gauri Gill on Her Peripatetic Art, ArtNews, 2018

Dean Kissick: ‘Gauri Gill and Julia Phillips at MOMA PS1’, Spike Magazine, 2018

Sharmistha Ray: ‘Harnessing the Revelatory Power of Masks’, Hyperallergic, 2018

Nicole Miller: ‘Projects 108: Gauri Gill’, Brooklyn Rail, 2018

Lucy Gallun: ‘Gauri Gill: Acts of Appearance’, Essay for exhibition at MoMA PS1, 2018

Tausif Noor: ‘Gauri Gill discusses “Acts of Appearance” at MoMA PS1’, Interview with Tausif Noor, Artforum magazine, 2018

Vandana Kalra: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill takes her desert journeys’, Indian Express newspaper, 2018

Bansie Vasvani: ‘Gauri Gill and the Acts of Appearance’, COBO Social, 2018

Will Heinrich: ‘Behind a mask, in front of a lens’, New York Times, 2018

Natasha Ginwala: ‘Image as Dwelling, Gauri Gill’s photography and collaborative approach’, DB ArtMag, 2018

Jyoti Dhar: ‘Gauri Gill, Nature Morte’, Artforum magazine, 2018

Chanpreet Khurana: ‘With masks and some alchemy, photographer Gauri Gill tells real and fantastic stories in Maharashtra’, Scroll, 2018

Rashmi Meenakshi Vishwanathan: ‘An Architecture of Memory’, Third Text, 2017

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie: ‘At Documenta, Blurred Lines Between Art and Politics’, Aperture magazine, 2017

Girish Shahane: ‘The Grand European Art Tour’, Scroll magazine, 2017

Anar Parikh: ‘The Americans: Representations of South Asian American Life’, South Asian American Digital Archive, 2017

Sarover Zaidi: ‘On two modes of witnessing: Azadeh Akhlaghi and Gauri Gill’, Chapati Mystery, 2017

Chanpreet Khurana: ‘Photographer Gauri Gill uncovers the secret lives of graves in Rajasthan’, Scroll.in, 2017

Prajna Desai: ‘The Kids Aren’t All Right’, Aperture magazine, 2017

Nabil Ahmed: ‘Negative Moment: Political Geology in the Twenty-First Century’, documenta 14, Issue 3, 2016

Annalisa Merelli: ‘When an ancient tribal art depicts modern Indian life’, Quartz India, 2016

Pooja Pillai: ‘Stitched in Time’, Indian Express newspaper, 2016

Nancy Adajania: ‘Bearing Witness: Creations of the “Human Hand” in Gauri Gill’s photography’, The Wire, 2016

Reema Gehi: ‘Retellings’, Mumbai Mirror newspaper, 2016

Ranjit Hoskote: ‘A Renewed Bibliography of Sensations: Gauri Gill’s Collaborations with Person, Place, and Community’, April 2016

Chanpreet Khurana: ‘The art of slowing down’, Mint newspaper, 2016

Inderpal Grewal: ‘Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad: Fields of Sight’, Trans Asia Photography Review, 2015

Portfolio: ‘Another Way of Seeing’, Granta magazine, 2015

The Salon: Conversation between Lola Mac Dougall and Gauri Gill, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, 2014

Somak Ghosal: ‘Eye Spy: The work of mourning’, Mint newspaper, 2014

Deeksha Nath: ‘Violence and Resistance’, Review of Forms of Activism, Frontline magazine, 2014

Geeta Kapur: ‘Aesthetic Bind, Citizen Artist: forms of address’, 2013

Jaspreet Singh: ‘Thomas Bernhard in New Delhi’, New York Times, 2013

Avtar Singh: ‘Returning to 1984’, Timeout magazine, New Delhi, 2013

Neha Thirani: ‘Mumbai’s ‘Focus’ Festival Showcases Women Photographers’, New York Times, 2013

Portfolio: ‘Extra-Urban’, Domus, Mumbai 2012

Aditi Saxton: ‘Do you see what I see’, Review of Balika Mela, Tehelka magazine, 2012

Rosalyn D’Mello: ‘Gauri Gill’s New Book is a Chapter in the Art of Portraiture’, Artinfo.com, 2012

Nao Katagiri: ‘New generation of Indian Artists’, Bird magazine, Tokyo, 2012

Murtaza Vali: ‘Eluding Presence: Portraiture in South Asian Photography’, Trans Asia Photography Review, 2011

Portfolio: ‘Balika Mela’, Inge Morath Foundation, 2011

Portfolio: ‘Nizamuddin at Night’, Civil Lines, Edited by Mukul Kesavan, Kai Friese and Achal Prabhala, Harper Collins, New Delhi, 2011

Portfolio: ‘Balika Mela’, Sunday Guardian newspaper, New Delhi 2011

Christopher Lord: ‘Professional and amateur pictures of war-ravaged Kabul on show in London’, Review in The National newspaper, Abu Dhabi 2011

Neha Thirani: ‘The Peacocks on the Periphery’, Review in Times of India newspaper, Mumbai 2010

Zeenat Nagre: ‘State of Discomfort’, Review in Time Out magazine, Mumbai 2010

Anita Dube: ‘Notes on Gauri Gill’s Notes from the Desert’, Art India Magazine, Mumbai 2010

Portfolio: ‘Notes from the Desert’, Du magazine, Zurich, 2010

Maya Kovskaya: Review in BLOUINARTINFO 2010

Jane Mikkelsen: ‘Nomad Land’, Review in Timeout magazine, New Delhi 2010

Mario Cresci and Radu Stern: ‘Future Images – A Collection of the World’s Best Young Photographers’, 24Ore Motta Cultura, Italy 2010

Von Feli Schindler: ‘Bilder des Glücks und der Tristesse’, Review in Tages Anzeiger newspaper, Zurich 2010

Portfolio: ‘Balika Mela Portraits’, Ojodopez, Spain 2010

Portfolio: ‘The Americans’, Gup Magazine, The Netherlands, 2010

Deepanjana Pal: ‘Beyond Photoshop’, Review in The Caravan magazine, New Delhi 2010

Alexander Keefe: ‘On Nizamuddin at Night’, Essay in Marg magazine, Mumbai 2010

Veerangana Solanki: ‘More than a thousand words’, Review in The Economic Times newspaper, New Delhi 2010

Himanshu Bhagat: ‘Art of the Here and Now’, Review in Mint newspaper, New Delhi 2010

Bakirathi Mani: ‘Viewing South Asia, Seeing America: Gauri Gill’s “The Americans”’, Essay in American Quarterly, March 2010

Deeksha Nath: ‘The Americans’, Essay in Special Issue edited by Shaheen Merali, Black, Take on Art Magazine, New Delhi 2010

Nilanjana Roy: ‘Fighting for safe passage on Indian Streets’, NYT, 2010

Ravi Agarwal: ‘Interview for KHOJ BOOK – Ten years of Khoj Artists’, New Delhi 2010

Paul Sternberger: ‘Me, Myself and India’, Essay in Photographies, London 2009

Christopher Pinney: Comments on The Americans, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago 2008

Portfolio: ‘Urban Landscapes’, Private Photo Review, France 2009

Marina Budhos: ‘The Uneven Promise of a New Land’, Essay on The Americans, Tehelka magazine, New Delhi

Aveek Sen: ‘Vast Native Thoughts’, Review in Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata 2008

Gayatri Sinha: Essay for The Americans, New Delhi 2008

Holland Cotter: ‘INDIA Public Places/Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video Art’, Review in New York Times newspaper, January 2008

Ella Dutta: ‘Holding the city open’, Review in Art India magazine, Mumbai, 2008

Gauri Gill and Shuddhabrata Sengupta: ‘Kabul Lives’, New International, 2007