Kevin Salatino

Kevin Salatino

Program

CCL Class of 2009

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Title

Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings

Institution at time of Fellowship

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA

Mentors

Glenn Lowry, The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA

Nicholas Serota, Tate Britain

Kevin Salatino was appointed Director of the Art Collections at The Huntington in September, 2012. Prior to that, from 2009–2012, he was Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. From 2001–2009, Kevin was Curator and Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and from 1991–2000 he was Curator of Graphic Arts at the Getty Research Institute. Kevin earned his AB from Columbia University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured and published widely on subjects as diverse as fireworks (Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe, 1999, to be published in a revised French edition in 2014 as Feu d’Artifice et Pouvoir), Fra Angelico (the subject of his dissertation), the erotic drawings of Henry Fuseli, the Grand Tour, Goya, James Ensor, and George Bellows, among others. Recent publications include Edward Hopper’s Maine (2011), and William Wegman: Hello Nature (2012). In 2012, he delivered The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in the History of Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the subject of “Edward Hopper and the Burden of (Un)Certainty.”

Since arriving at The Huntington, Kevin has overseen a number of exhibitions and initiatives, including the critically well-received Face to Face: Flanders, Florence, and Renaissance Painting, and the reinstallation and significant expansion of the American Art collections, which was accompanied by the first catalogue of The Huntington’s American art (American Made: Highlights from the Huntington Art Collections, 2014). A number of important acquisitions have been made and gifts received since Kevin’s arrival, including major works by George Bellows, Arthur Dove, Frank Lloyd Wright, Reginald Marsh, George Luks, and Tony Smith on the American side, and Henry Fuseli and Pierre-Jacques Volaire on the European side. 

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History-2009

2008-10-30

CCL Announces Class of 2009

Selection of New Fellows Builds Upon Success of Inaugural Year Program, Professional Advancement of the Class of 2008 Ten outstanding curators from art museums and institutions across the United States have been selected to participate in the 2009 fellowship program of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), an organization that trains curators for ... Read More >

Core Advancement

2017-06-02

Valerie Cassel Oliver (CCL 2009) Appointed Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

A warm congratulations to Valerie Cassel Oliver (CCL 2009) on her appointment as Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts! Most recently Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Valerie completed the CCL fellowship in 2009, which included mentorship ... Read More >

Core Advancement

2019-08-23

Rochelle Steiner (CCL 2009) Named Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Palm Springs Art Museum

Rochelle Steiner (CCL 2009) has been named Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at the Palm Springs Art Museum!  Rochelle comes to the Palm Springs Art Museum from the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she serves as the associate director and chief curator. Rochelle has also held posts at the Roski ... Read More >