Madeleine Haddon

Madeleine Haddon is an art historian and curator currently working on exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and serving as Special Projects Manager at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2021, where her dissertation examined race, gender, and Spanishness in European painting from 1855 to 1927.

Her educational background includes:

• B.A. in Art History from Yale University (2012)
• Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University (2021)

Haddon's research focuses on intersections of race, gender, and national identity in 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish, French, and American painting. She has extensively studied Hispanic art collections, particularly at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, and analyzed artists like Sorolla and Murillo through frameworks of color theory and cultural representation. Her work reveals how European painting constructed racial hierarchies through visual language.

Haddon has received the Fulbright Award for research at Madrid's Museo del Prado and Museo Reina Sofia.

She has held curatorial roles across major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, the Sally and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Current projects include co-curating "Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library" and "Matisse: The Red Studio" at MoMA.