Madeline Murphy Turner is a curator and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on gender, ecology, and their intersections with transhistorical politics.

She is the Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas and, with Mitra Abbaspour, is co-curating Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static (opening August 2025).

Madeline has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Grey Art Museum, and her essays appear in exhibition catalogues, scholarly volumes, and leading journals. A committed advocate for arts education, she serves on the board of La Escuela___, an artist-run platform for radical learning and collaborative making in public spaces across the Americas.

She is also the co-editor of Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America (The Museum of Modern Art, 2025), an award-winning anthology exploring how Latin American artists engage with their natural environments. Madeline earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Madeline Murphy Turner es curadora e historiadora del arte especializada en arte moderno y contemporáneo de las Américas, con un enfoque en arte y género, ecología y sus intersecciones con las políticas transhistóricas.