Runhild Roeder

I started painting in the early 1980s, unaware that I was developing on my own in Canada a Neo-Expressionist idiom that can be seen in retrospect as very much in tune with the cutting-edge new painting emerging internationally at that time in Germany (A. R. Penck and the Neue Wilden) and Italy (Francesco Clemente and the Transavanguardia). I was actually drawing inspiration from the same precedents : the CoBrA movement of Appel, Alechinsky and Corneille, which I was collecting as a gallerist in Montreal, and alongside whose work mine was displayed in Belgium whilst I was based there at the turn of the century. I also became more aware of my kinship with Schiele, Klee and Die Brücke when I was in Vienna in 1986 and Arnulf Rainer highly praised my work. This being said, it straddles the divide between figurative and abstract Expressionism, as I have always painted and drawn in the same childlike spirit of freedom and spontaneity, with a natural knack for creating work that is both balanced and quirky, unmistakable yet recognizable in terms of avant-garde lineages, with echoes of prehistoric and Oriental art. Based on the union of the cerebral and the physical, my work expresses an aspiration to perceive the Truth in the beauty of th...

2007-2010: Part-time studies at the Faculty of Theology and Ethics of Université de Sherbrooke in its new doctoral program in Études du religieux contemporain
2002-2007: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Université Laval
2001-2002: M.A. in Philosophy, Université de Sherbrooke
1996-2000: M.A. level studies in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain
1995: French Language Studies, Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal 1983-1994: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
-full-time studies and free research in Philosophy (phenomenology, aesthetics), 1989-1994
-part-time studies in Philosophy, 1986-1989
-part-time studies in Religious Studies, 1983-1986
1978-1979: Teacher’s training at Montessori Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota
1975-76 : Swedish language and Montessori education training at International Montessori Institute, Stockholm,
1969: Gestalt training marathon seminars for Freudian psychoanalysts at Shalal Institute in Vancouver, B.C.
1964-1965 : M.A. in English Literature, Panjab Univeristy, Chandigarh, India
1962-1964 : B.A. in Political Science and Economics, Panjab Univeristy
1962 : Matriculation in physical sciences, social sciences, English literature and English as first language, Sacred Heart School, Amritsar, ...

2012: solo exhibition April 7-28 at Georges Laoun Opticien (1396 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, inside one of the buildings of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
2010-11: thematic group shows at L’Espace Contemporain (Montreal, Quebec)
2007: Featured among exceptional Montreal women whose photo portraits were part of French artist Pierre Maraval’s Mille Femmes exhibition at Galerie SAS, at the Quai Jacques-Cartier in the Old Port, and at The Bay department store, from which a book was drawn on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo biennial.
2006-7: Showcase in the lobby of Hôtel Omni Mont-Royal (Montreal, Quebec)
2002: Galerie Les Modernes (Montreal, Quebec)
2000: P-Art Gallery (Ghent, Belgium)
1999-2000: On-going exhibition at my own studio in Antwerp
1999: Galerie contemporaine (Antwerp, Belgium)
1998: Verve Gallery (Leuven, Belgium; group show among big names)
1997: Two-Ten Gallery (Leuven, Belgium)
1993: Dhoomi Mal Art Gallery (New Delhi, India)
1990-92: Thompson House (McGill University Graduates’ Club, Montreal)
1991: Thielsen Gallery (London, Ontario)
1987, 1989: Little Theater Gallery (New Delhi, India)
1986: Karney-Daniels Gallery (11 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto), group show from October 9 to 25
1986: Café Museu...