Madeleine Haddon is Senior Curator of V&A East, the newest campus of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dr. Haddon leads on curatorial initiatives across V&A East Storehouse and the forthcoming V&A East Museum, shaping ambitious, interdisciplinary projects for these new public spaces.

Prior to joining the V&A, Dr. Haddon was an independent art historian and curator based between London and New York. Her recent projects include Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library at The Hispanic Society 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 the CORA Foundation. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues, including De Profundis: Oscar Wilde (2024); Travel, Respond, Assemble: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Betye Saar (2023), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Murillo: From Heaven to Earth (2022), Kimbell Art Museum; and The Sublime in Nature (2021).  She is also 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 role of race and color in nineteenteth- and early twentieth-century European and American art. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct 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 has taught at the University of Edinburgh and holds a B.A. in Art History from Yale University. Her research and curatorial work have been presented internationally in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Argentina.