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In July 2025, Allison Morehead is our guest at RiR in Åsgårdstrand. She is the curator of "Lifeblood", an exhibition at MUNCH in Oslo that deals with the changes in medical treatment and care that occurred during Edvard Munch's life.
Haugar Art Museum and Munch's House are happy to welcome Allison Morehead as Researcher in Residence in July 2025. We would like to thank MUNCH for their collaboration on the visiting researcher's stay.
Allison Morehead is the curator of "Lifeblood", an exhibition that asks provocative questions about our modern experiences with health and illness, birth and death, and giving and receiving care. The exhibition provides a unique and critical perspective on modern healthcare, and it can be seen at MUNCH in Oslo from 27 June – 21 September 2025.
See: Lifeblood Edvard Munch - Munchmuseet
About the researcher
Allison Morehead is professor of art history and cultural studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and head of the research project Lifeblood - Edvard Munch. Working across art history, history of medicine, history of the psy-sciences, history of museums, gender studies, and the medical humanities, she has cultivated a unique interdisciplinary practice as a feminist scholar and curator.
Her book Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form (2017) received a Millard Meiss Publication Award and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize. Morehead is the co-editor of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (2025) and the principal investigator of Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical and Health Humanities, a partnership between Queen's, Durham, and Uppsala Universities.