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Roma A. Patel: ‘Looking For Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000–2007’, Essay for exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery, 2024
Roma Patel: ‘Looking For Ourselves: Gauri Gill’s The Americans, 2000–2007’, India Currents, 2024
Eddy Frankel: ‘Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024’, Time Out, 2024
‘Mind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize – in pictures’, The Guardian, 2024
Charlotte Jansen: ‘Deutsche Börse prize review – from crotchless knickers to the sound of a grave’. The Guardian, 2024
En Liang Khong: ‘Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize 2024: Never mind the curatorial neuroses – this is a shortlist to cherish’, The Telegraph, 2024
‘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
‘“Sheher, Prakriti, Devi”: Dubai exhibition explores the interconnectedness of cities, nature, and the divine’, The Indian Express, 2024
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘Gauri Gill is the Prix Pictet Laureate’, Financial Times, 2023
‘Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures’, The Guardian, 2023
‘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
‘Human interest’, Monocle, 2024
Jaron Schneider: ‘Photographer Wins a Gargantuan $109,000 in 10th Prix Pictet Awards’, Peta Pixel, 2023
'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
‘Gauri Gill: A Profile’, Critical Collective, 2023
Gerry Brakus: ‘The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist’, New Statesman, 2023
‘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
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
‘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
‘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
'The eighth colour of a ruined rainbow', Daijiworld, 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 (410), This Long Century, 2020
‘Jis tann lãgé soee jãné: The 1984 Pogrom’, Marg magazine special issue on Art and Conflict, Edited by Glenn D. Lowry, 2020
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
Interview with Tausif Noor, 500 words, 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