Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an American art historian, and Associate Professor of Art History, at The University of Aberdeen.
He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1989 and M.A. in 1990, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1996.
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
2007 Renaissance Society of America grant
The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-268-02222-8
Art of colonial Latin America, Phaidon, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7148-4157-1
Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773, University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8020-8507-8
"Le style jesuit n'existe pas: Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts", The Jesuits: cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773, Volume 1, Editor John W. O'Malley, University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 9780802042873
"The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India", The Jesuits: cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773, Volume 1 Editor John W. O'Malley, University of Toronto Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8020-4287-3
"The Jesuits and the Non-Spanish Contribution to South American Colonial Architecture", Early modern Catholicism: essays in honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. Editors John W. O'Malley, Kathleen M. Comerford, Hilmar M. Pabel, University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8020-8417-0
