Kevin Salatino

Since 2017, Kevin Salatino has served as chair and Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings, where he recently curated the exhibition Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection. He is currently working on a retrospective of the drawings of Willem de Kooning.

Previously Kevin was director of the art collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (2012–17); director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (2009–12); curator and head of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2000–09); and curator of graphic arts at the Getty Research Institute (1991–2000). Among numerous publications, he is the author of Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe (1998/2015).

Kevin holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University.