Gisela Gamper, (b. Germany) is known for her photography and experimental video work. She has lived and worked in the United States since 1968.
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, distributed by Printed Matter, Inc. In 2024, a companion edition, Longing for David will go to press.
Gamper’s video work, What Goes Around Comes Around was included in Screen Compositions 20 with Experimental Intermedia at Issue Project Room, curated by Katherine Liberovskaya in March 2024. A new video installation, Hear, There, Everywhere opens May 2024 as part of Harvestworks/Governor’s Island summer programming — on view until August 2024.
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 essay 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.