Shalmali Shetty is an independent curator, writer and artist based in Glasgow and working between the UK and India. Her research interests include themes of archives, memories and hauntology, extending her focus through the familiar framework of India and its neo-colonial relationship to the West. She intends to coalesce her backgrounds in art practice and theory in the production of the curatorial.
Shalmali holds a BVA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda (India), an MA in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from the Glasgow School of Art (UK), supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship. She is the recipient of the Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award (Glasgow); the Skinny Magazine x Edinburgh Art Festival Emerging Writers (Edinburgh), and the Art South Asia Project x Serendipity Arts Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship (UK and India).
Amongst various independent projects, Shalmali is currently working on the production of an upcoming exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. She is also on the Board of Trustees for Outpost Gallery, Norwich and Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN). She continues to write for various arts platforms.
