Madeleine Haddon is Curator of V&A East, the newest campus of the Victoria & Albert Museum, opening in 2025. Prior to joining the V&A, Dr. Haddon was an independent curator working between London and New York. She recently curated Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library at the Hispanic Society in New York and worked on Matisse: The Red Studio at The Museum of Modern Art.

Dr. Haddon serves on the board of the Public Arts Trust of India and advisory committees for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and Athena Art Foundation. She is a founding member of the Steering Committee for The National Gallery’s Young Ambassadors. Dr. Haddon has recently contributed essays to the exhibition catalogues Murillo: From Heaven to Earth (2022) at the Kimbell Art Museum and Travel, Respond, Assemble: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Betye Saar (2023) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Previously, Dr. Haddon was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. 

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 Spanish, French and American painting. Dr. Haddon received a Fulbright Award in support of her research in Madrid at the Museo del Prado and Museo Reina Sofia. She has previously held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Sally and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection. Dr. Haddon received her B.A. in Art History from Yale University in 2012. She has presented on her scholarship in the United States, Spain, the United Kingdom and Argentina.