Madeleine Haddon is Senior Curator of V&A East, the newest campus of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr. Haddon leads on curatorial projects across V&A East Storehouse and forthcoming V&A East Museum.

Prior to joining the V&A, Dr. Haddon was an independent art historian and curator working between London and New York. She recently worked on Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library at the Hispanic Society in New York and Matisse: The Red Studio at The Museum of Modern Art.

Dr. Haddon serves on the board of the Public Arts Trust of India and on advisory committees for Harvard Art Museums, Photo London, and CORA Foundation. She has recently contributed essays to the exhibition catalogues De Profundis: Oscar Wilde (2024), Travel, Respond, Assemble: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Betye Saar (2023) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Murillo: From Heaven to Earth (2022) at the Kimbell Art Museum, and The Sublime in Nature (2021).  She is a founding member of the Steering Committee for The National Gallery’s Young Ambassadors.

Dr. Haddon completed her PhD at Princeton University, where her dissertation, “Local Color: Race, Gender, and Spanishness in European Painting, 1855-1927,” examined the preoccupation with race and color in 19th- and early 20th-century European and American painting. She received a Fulbright Award in support of her research in Madrid at the Museo del Prado and Museo Reina Sofia. 

Dr. Haddon has previously held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, and Princeton University Art Museum. She was formerly a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and received her B.A. in Art History from Yale University. She has presented on her work and scholarship in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Argentina.