Aaron Wile was associate curator of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art from 2019 to 2026, focusing on the exhibition, research, and acquisition of 17th- and 18th-century works.  

While at the National Gallery, Wile cocurated Back and Forth: Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne (2025–2026). He also helped to add a variety of works, largely by women artists, to the National Gallery’s collection of French paintings. Among these are Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit (1783), a work whose location was unknown for centuries and was acquired by the National Gallery of Art after reappearing publicly in 2022.

Prior to joining the National Gallery, Wile was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California (USC). He was previously a Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at the Frick Collection, where he organized the critically acclaimed exhibition Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France (2016), the first exhibition devoted to Watteau's military works. His exhibition catalog essay won an award for excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. He is also the recipient of the 2015–2016 James L. Clifford Prize for best article from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Wile holds a PhD and an MA from Harvard University and a BA from Haverford College.