Joan Arden Charlat Murray OOnt FRSC (born August 12, 1943) is an American-born Canadian art historian, writer and curator.

[1] She moved to Canada in 1959 to marry W. Ross Murray (1930–2020) and studied art history at the University of Toronto, receiving an Honours B.A.

[4][15] Her collection of papers and over 600 interviews with artists[16] are stored in Library and Archives Canada.

[19] She received the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2000.

[19] She received the Order of Ontario in 2003,[4] and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.