Gauri Gill (b. 1970, Chandigarh, India) earned a BFA (Applied Art from the College of Art, New Delhi; BFA (Photography) from Parsons School of Design/The New School, New York adn MFA (Art) from Stanford University, California. She has exhibited within India and internationally, including the 58th Venice Biennale; Museum Tinguely, Basel; MoMA PS1, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Kochi Biennale 2016; 7th Moscow Biennale; Wiener Library, London and 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 Institution, Washington and Fotomuseum, Winterhur. In 2011 she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada's foremost award for photography. In 2022, her first major survey exhibition opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, and continued on to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art at Humlebæk in 2023.