Donna De Salvo

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Donna De Salvo is the chief curator and assistant director of the Whitney Museum of American Art .

Career

Donna De Salvo was the curator of the Dia Art Foundation from 1981 to 1986 , where she worked with John Chamberlain , Walter De Maria , Donald Judd , Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol , among others . She is an expert in Pop Art and Andy Warhol and was assistant to the directorate of the Andy Warhol Museum before joining the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University . From 2000 to 2004 De Salvo was chief curator at Tate Modern in London. She has been Associate Program Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2004 .

Together with Linda Norden, De Salvo was responsible for the US pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 . Was shown Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha .

Donna De Salvo has organized numerous exhibitions, given readings and written essays on internationally renowned artists. Including Roni Horn , Anish Kapoor , Mark Wallinger , Lee Bontecou , Robert Gober , Gerhard Richter , Lawrence Weiner , Ray Johnson , Giorgio Morandi , Barbara Bloom , William Eggleston , Isa Genzken , Philip Guston , Wade Guyton , Per Kirkeby , Barbara Kruger , Barnett Newman , Chris Ofili , Robert Smithson, and Gillian Wearing .

literature

  • Success Is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol by Donna De Salvo and Trevor Fairbrother, Gray Art Gallery & Study Ctr, 1989 ISBN 978-0-93434-9-055

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Metropolis The Whitney's Chief Curator on How Renzo Piano's New Building "Stretches the Mind" accessed on July 11, 2015 (English)
  2. ^ Museum of American Art Donna De Salvo, Joan Simon and Elisabeth Sussman named to new positions as part of a new curatorial structure of the Whitney ( Memento of February 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 11, 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ Museum of American Art Donna De Salvo accessed on July 11, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME De Salvo, Donna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Salvo, Donna M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief Curator and Assistant Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century