Margaret R. Thompson (b. 1990) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Visual Arts at Eckerd College with a concentration in Latin American Studies. Thompson was named one of the Top 100 Early-Career Artists in Artcube’s 2024 Discoveries Report and is a 2025 Hopper Prize grant recipient. She recently presented a solo exhibition at the Byzantine Cistern of Zeyrek Çinili Hamam in Istanbul, Türkiye, and a group exhibition, CAIM, at Slane Castle, Ireland. Thompson is currently exhibiting at UMOCA in Salt Lake, as a part of Altered States in the Acid West. Additionally, her work has been shown at the Milicent Rogers Museum in El Prado, New Mexico. She has exhibited at several national and international galleries, including MAIA Contemporary in Mexico City, Galerist in Istanbul, Wilder and LAMB Gallery in London, Smoke The Moon in Santa Fe, and Red Arrow in Nashville. Within a broader art-historical lineage, Thompson’s work can be placed in dialogue with artists engaged in esoteric traditions who treated the canvas as the interface between the seen and the unseen, such as Agnes Pelton, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Hilma af Klint, and Ithell Colquhoun. Thompson conducted a private research residency at Leonora Carrington’s home and studio in Mexico City in 2024.