Madeline Murphy Turner, Ph.D., is an art historian and curator based in Cambridge, MA, United States. Her practice centers on contemporary art in Latin America, with a special interest in topics of ecology, gender, and performance.

She is currently the Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums and a research participant in the Connecting Art Histories Getty Foundation-sponsored program, “Narrating Art and Feminisms: Eastern Europe and Latin America.” From 2019 to 2022, she was a researcher and curatorial fellow at the Cisneros Research Institute at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before that, she was the Curatorial Assistant at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University. In 2022, she curated the exhibition Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe and Laura Anderson Barbata: Origins with Marlborough Gallery, New York. She has also written essays for exhibition catalogs with Marlborough Gallery, and published texts in Burlington Contemporary, Revista Transas, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Art Margins Online, AWARE, post: notes on art in a global context, MoMA Magazine in the book for the 2020 Bienal de Mercosul Against the Canon: Art, Feminism(s), and Activisms, XVIII to XXI Centuries. Arte, Feminismo(s) y Activismos, Siglos XVIII al XXI. She is the co-editor of a research anthology on art and the environment in contemporary Latin America, forthcoming in December 2024 by the Cisneros Institute, MoMA. In 2023, she received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Archeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she presented a dissertation titled “What Women Write: Artist’s Books, Postal Objects, and Independent Theater in Mexico City (1979–1992).”

Madeline Murphy Turner, Ph.D., es historiadora del arte y curadora radicada en Cambridge, MA, EEUU. Su trabajo se centra en el arte contemporáneo de América Latina, con un interés especial en temas de ecología, género, y performance.