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Preparing for the Rath yatra at the Ganesha Temple, Nashville, Tennessee, Archival inkjet print, 27 x 40 in, 2004
Gauri Gill
Gauri Gill (b. 1970) received a BFA in Applied Art from the Delhi College of Art in New Delhi in 1992 and an BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1994, where she interned with Mary Ellen Mark. She completed her MFA in Photography at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 2002 and was awarded one of five artists' fellowships. She has exhibited throughout India and internationally, including the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, the Museum of Quai Branley in Paris, Admit One Gallery in New York, and the John Hansard Gallery in Southhampton, UK. Her honors include an award from the Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Fund in Photography, Stanford University (2001), the Fifty Crows/Mother Jones Award for Documentary Photography (2002), and a Senior Arts Fellowship at the American Institute of Indian Studies, University of Chicago (2002). Gauri Gill lives and works in New Delhi.