Gisela Gamper, (b. Germany) is known for her photography and
experimental video work. Since 1968, she has lived and worked in the United States.
Gamper began working with photography in 1971 and since then has built a body of
work that is personal and inspired by her life experiences. In 1999, Gamper began
working with video and so began a long and creative collaboration with her husband,
musician and composer, David Gamper. Together they created, See Hear Now, a live
music and video installation that was performed and presented in New Music venues in
New York and elsewhere. Returning to photography in 2013, Gisela created a series of
photographs called ‘Longing for David’ dedicated to him, who died in 2011. In 2023,
she published a limited edition art-book, No Longer Sleeping Alone, that is
distributed by Printed Matter, Inc. Among Gamper’s grants and awards are two
Fellowship Grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts in 1985 and 1990, and the
Hasselblad Cover Award in 1991. For two concurrent solo exhibitions in New Orleans
in 1997, the Contemporary Artists Collection of Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY.
published Fabrications, a catalogue of Gamper’s photographs with text by Rachel
Pollack. Gamper’s photographs are in numerous private collections and in the
collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY. Gamper lives and
works in New York City and Vermont.
