Gabrielle Guy is an art book designer and visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has designed numerous artist monographs and photo books, most notably for William Kentridge, Nicholas Hlobo, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Igshaan Adams, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis and Guy Tillim. She is a former art director of Art South Africa magazine (under the editorship of Sean O’Toole, 2003-2005).

Often working closely with Stevenson gallery, she has designed and continues to manage their corporate identity. In 2014 she designed the book Faces and Phases 2006-14 for photographer Zanele Muholi, and spent time working at the publisher Steidl in Göttingen, Germany, during May 2014. The book was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015.

She has designed identities for Art Joburg, the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean/ ICAIO (Mauritius) and group exhibitions at Stevenson such as A Sculptural Premise, The New Parthenon, Schema, and Sex. In 2017 she worked on the catalogue and identity and exhibition elements for The South African Pavilion presenting Candice Breitz + Mohau Modisakeng at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

In December 2017 Gabrielle held her first exhibition of photographs and drawings, A-series, a project at blank lab in Maitland, Cape Town. She recently started publishing her own series of books - Part 1,  Part 2 and Part 3. A solo exhibition at OPEN24HRS, Cape Town, is being planned for 2020.

Publishers she has worked with include Steidl (Germany), Prestel (Germany), Kehrer (Germany), Rizzoli (New York), Hatje Cantz (Germany), Punctum (Italy), Kerber (Germany), Jacana (South Africa) and DayOne (South Africa).

Portrait by Pieter Hugo, 2016