Meaghan Monaghan

Meaghan Monaghan is responsible for the conservation of paintings in the collection of the AGO. After earning a Master of Art Conservation from Queen’s University, she held internships and fellowships at several international museums including a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Denmark and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the USA. Before joining the AGO in 2017, she worked as Assistant Conservator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FIIC) and is actively involved in the development of education and outreach initiatives in the conservation field.

Meaghan has published and lectured on the conservation of oil paintings, murals, and painted banners. Her most recent publication in Studies in Conservation was a collaboration with the Canadian Conservation institute (CCI) and focused on degradation phenomena in modern commercial oil paints used by renowned Canadian artist Rita Letendre. She continues to collaborate with several Canadian museums and CCI on an in-depth technical study of Letendre’s paint materials and techniques.