Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: an image acquirer which acquires an image of a plurality of users; a display which displays the image acquired by the image acquirer; and a controller which selects a user making a predetermined gesture among the plurality of users in the image and controls the display apparatus to perform an operation corresponding to the selected user out of operations which are capable of being performed by the display apparatus when the image of the plurality of users is acquired through the image acquirer and the predetermined gesture is recognized from the acquired image.