Roald Nasgaard

Roald Nasgaard is a teacher, writer, and curator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Abstract Painting in Canada (2007). His major exhibitions and accompanying books include The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940 (1984); the first Gerhard Richter retrospective in North America (1988); The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960 (2009); and The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955-1970 (2014). More recently he co-curated...See more

Roald Nasgaard is a teacher, writer, and curator. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Abstract Painting in Canada (2007). His major exhibitions and accompanying books include The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940 (1984); the first Gerhard Richter retrospective in North America (1988); The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960 (2009); and The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955-1970 (2014). More recently he co-curated Mystical Landscapes (2016) for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries (2017) for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. See less