Elizabeth Gill Lui attended Marymount International School London before becoming a fine arts major at Colorado College, a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She attended Marymount International School London, a Catholic girl's boarding school, in the fifth and sixth grades; Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs; graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado College with a degree in comparative religion; pursued American Indian Studies at University of Denver; and studied architectural photography at Harvard Graduate School of Design in a program headed by Ezra Stoller. As a fine arts minor at Colorado College, Gill Lui was creating highly detailed and graphic lithography and engraving, but by her late 20s, she began exploring photography in printmaking. The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 
