Roald Nasgaard, OC, is a teacher, writer, and curator. He is the author of numerous publications on Canadian art including the critically acclaimed Abstract Painting in Canada (2008). His more recent curatorial work includes Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr, which opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016 and travelled to the Musée d?Orsay in Paris; and Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries, which opened at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2017.