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Paul Greenhalgh
Paul Greenhalgh is a world-renowned scholar and former Head of Research at London’s
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, one of the most internationally recognized
museums. Most recently, he served as President of NSCAD University (Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design). As Director and President of the Corcoran, he will
oversee the oldest private art museum and oldest art college in the nation’s
capital.
For the past five years, Mr. Greenhalgh served as President of NSCAD University, Canada’s principle degree-granting art and design institution. The institution of more than 1,000 full-time and part-time students offers competitive undergraduate programs in fine arts, craft and art history, a film school and two graduate degree programs.
Before joining NSCAD University, Greenhalgh was Head of Research at the V&A Museum, the largest museum of fine, decorative art and design in the world. He was responsible for all aspects of the museum’s research efforts and was centrally involved in exhibitions, publications and gallery development.
As one of his most celebrated accomplishments, Greenhalgh curated the worldwide V&A traveling exhibition, Art Nouveau: 1890-1914, a survey show which showcased objects from the first period of modern style and redefined and repositioned it in the history of decorative arts. The exhibition was seen by more than one million visitors from London to Washington D.C. and Tokyo, Japan.
Greenhalgh's previous posts include working as a tutor at the Royal College of Art, a lectureship at the Cardiff Institute, Head of Art History at London’s renowned Camberwell College of Arts and Deputy Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the V&A. He has been a distinguished visitor to arts institutions, museums and universities around the world and an official advisor to numerous public bodies in Europe and North America.
In addition to his visual arts and education career positions, Greenhalgh also spends significant time as a working scholar in his chosen field of fine and decorative arts. He has researched and written seven arts and culture books over the past 17 years, including the most recent, The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Post Modernism, published and released in October 2005.
A native of England, Mr. Greenhalgh earned a master’s degree in art history from University of London Courtauld Institute in 1980 and an undergraduate degree with honors in fine art and art history from the University of Reading in 1978.