Frank Claustrat (Ph.D. Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University) is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (France), Art Critic, and Exhibition Curator. He focuses on Western Art, both in Europe and North America. In particular, he is recognised for his knowledge of Nordic art, and expertise in Scandinavian and Finnish Art. Since 1997, Frank Claustrat has written articles, exhibition reports, catalog prefaces, and given interviews in Artnord magazine, Les Archives de la Critique d’Art, L’Œil, Connaissance des Arts, and La Gazette Drouot. He has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-France) since 2002.