Elizabeth Gill Lui attended Marymount International School London before becoming a fine arts major at Colorado College.
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. 
