Roald Nasgaard

Roald Nasgaard is a teacher, writer and curator. He began his career at the University of Guelph and then served as Curator of Contemporary Art and Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is Professor Emeritus in Art History at Florida State University. The publication of A Very Sacred Experience brings together his long-standing commitments to both abstract art and landscape painting. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Abstract Painting in Canada . His major...See more

Roald Nasgaard is a teacher, writer and curator. He began his career at the University of Guelph and then served as Curator of Contemporary Art and Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is Professor Emeritus in Art History at Florida State University. The publication of A Very Sacred Experience brings together his long-standing commitments to both abstract art and landscape painting. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Abstract Painting in Canada . His major exhibitions and accompanying books include The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940 ; the first Gerhard Richter retrospective in North America; The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941--1960 ; and The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955-1970 . More recently he co-curated Mystical Landscapes for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d'Orsay, and Higher States: Lawren Harris and his American Contemporaries for the McMichael Canadian Collection. His book on the Montreal artist, Charles Gagnon, and an e-book on Eli Bornstein for the Art Canada Institute are currently in production. See less