Donna De Salvo is a curator, writer, and consultant who has worked with numerous national and international artists and museum collections. She is currently Senior Adjunct Curator, Special Projects, Dia Art Foundation, and amongst other projects, is co-curating, with Matilde Guidelli Guidi, a major presentation of the work of Jack Whitten. She held several positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, becoming its first Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs where she oversaw the museum’s curatorial department and program of exhibitions and acquisitions, and was centrally involved in the development and design of the Whitney’s new building and exhibition galleries. She led the team for its inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, and in 2018-19, curated the Whitney’s widely-acclaimed retrospective, Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again. Known for her thematic exhibitions, such as Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 (Tate Modern); Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition (1955-1962) (LAMoCA) and A Museum Looks at Itself (The Parrish Art Museum), Ms. De Salvo has also organized exhibitions or commissioned the work of Barbara Bloom, John Chamberlain, Roni Horn, Anish Kapoor, Barbara Kruger, Steve McQueen, Barnett Newman, Hélio Oiticica, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, Lawrence Weiner, and Joe Zucker, amongst many others. Ms. De Salvo has held curatorial positions at Tate Modern, London; the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio; Dia Art Foundation, in New York; and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. In the 1990s, she was the Robert Lehman Curator at The Parrish Art Museum, where she organized numerous exhibitions, including an installation on Job’s Lane of the work of Maren Hassinger.
