[7] In 1981 Gale resigned her position at A Space, and as an independent, she was curator for performance art in OKanada at Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1982–83).

[8] Since 1981, Gale has continued to be a full-time independent critic and has curated exhibitions at Art Metropole (Museums by Artists, 1983), National Gallery of Canada (Electronic Landscapes, 1989), Canadian Embassy, Tokyo (Northern Lights, 1991), Tout le temps/ Every Time for La Biennale de Montréal 2000, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Donigan Cumming: Moving Pictures, 2005), and many others.

[9] Her collected essays investigating the narrative basis of artists' video, Videotexts, was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 1995.

Gale also co-curated Live With Culture in 2006 with Fern Bayer and Chrysanne Stathacos for the city of Toronto's inaugural Nuit Blanche in Zone A: Bloor/Yorkville area.

[13] Gale continues to be active as a curator, writer, consultant, and mentor and her papers have been accepted into the archives at the Art Gallery of Ontario.