Shalmali Shetty
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Name
Shalmali Shetty
Job title
Curator
About
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 2022 (Glasgow); the Skinny Magazine x Edinburgh Art Festival Emerging Writers 2023 (Edinburgh), and the Art South Asia Project x Serendipity Arts Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship 2023 (UK and India). Amongst various independent projects, Shalmali currently serves as a Trustee on the Board of Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN), and writes for various arts platforms. She has recently curated the ‘The Ring in the Fish’, a solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Alia Syed, at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (May-July 2025).
Region
Glasgow