Roger Allan Blackley (29 July 1953 – 15 May 2019) was a New Zealand art historian, author, and curator.
[3] Blackley curated two exhibitions at Adam Art Gallery: Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe-l'oeil Drawings in 2001 and Te Mata: The Ethnological Portrait in 2008.
[3][8] In 1998, Blackley was appointed as a lecturer in art history at Victoria University of Wellington, and rose to the academic rank of associate professor.
[3][9] He continued his curatorial activities, producing two exhibitions and accompanying catalogues for the Adam Art Gallery.
[3] His research at Victoria focused on the Victorian and Edwardian cultures of collecting, culminating in his 2016 PhD thesis and the subsequent book, Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880–1910, published by Auckland University Press in 2018.