Alexandra Morrison is a specialist in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth century painting and currently based in New York. She is a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. 

She received an undergraduate degree from Emory University and earned her M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. at Yale University. Her dissertation, Copying at the Louvre, was awarded the University’s John Addison Porter Prize in 2019.

She has contributed to curatorial projects at museums in the United States and abroad, including the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, the Musée d’Orsay, the National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection.

Her research interests include canon formation, institutional history, alternative artistic networks in and outside Paris, and women artists, including Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) and the Marquise de Rambures (1844–1924). Her work frequently engages with the digital humanities and has involved the creation of new resources to make archival material and documentation more accessible.