Shalini Le Gall

Shalini Le Gall is Chief Curator and Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Curator of European Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where she leads the curatorial, collections, and education departments. In this capacity, Le Gall has led the reinstallation of the American art galleries with a multivocal advisory group, organized the exhibitions Surrealist Play (2022); Elizabeth Colomba: Mythologies (2023); and Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art (2025).

Previously, Le Gall served as the Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Programs at the Colby College Museum of Art, where she built relationships with students andfaculty through workshops and classes, and co-curated Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt (2020) and River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames (2019). For over a decade, she has worked in museums in both educational and curatorial capacities, thinking equally about how to engage supporters and visitors and build exhibitions and collections in ways that expand audiences. Le Gall received her B.A. from Georgetown University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University, with a focus on postcolonial studies and nineteenth-century painting.

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