Independent Art Curator and Writer
Curator, Presentation House Gallery
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver. In addition to an independent practice, she has been Curator at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver since 2003 and previously was a curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff. She has produced many exhibitions, public commissions and publications of Canadian and international contemporary art, with a focus on photography and media art. Her exhibitions of historical, classic and vernacular photography have brought to light previously unrecognized practitioners such as Fred Herzog and Vancouver photographers of the 1980s. Her writing on visual art and photography has been published widely.