Madeline Murphy Turner

Visiting Curator 2024–2025: BCA Studio Residency Program

Madeline Murphy Turner is a curator and art historian originally from New York City. She is currently the Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, where she works to expand the representation of artists through special exhibitions, collections, and teaching. Madeline has previously held positions at the Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. She has taught courses on modern and contemporary art at New York University and published in books, peer-reviewed journals, and online platforms. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she wrote a dissertation on experimental networks of women artists in 1980s Mexico City.