Temple University

Martha Madigan, an artist living and working in Philadelphia, is best known for her exquisite solar photograms and public art works that refer to, record or transform aspects of nature and the human figure.  Madigan has explored the history of photographic light sensitive materials from the earliest cyanotype process to the latest in digital color photography.  

Madigan studied art education at the University of Wisconsin in Madison  and earned an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.  Martha Madigan has served as professor of the Photography Department, Tyler School of Art and Architecture/Temple University since 1979. Madigan is currently the program director for the Photography programs at Tyler. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Temple University, and other organizations.

Her work is exhibited internationally, and is in the collections of major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as in private collections and institutions worldwide.  Martha Madigan is represented by the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City, and by Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art, Ltd. in Philadelphia.