Xavier Salomon

Xavier F. Salomon
Education	Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD)
Occupation	Art curator
Employer	Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Known for	Scholar of Paolo Veronese
Title	Director
Awards	Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (2018)

Xavier F. Salomon (born 1979) is a British art historian, critic, curator, and museum director. Until November 2025, he was the Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection in New York.^[1] In 2026, he will become the new Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, succeeding António Filipe Pimentel, who will retire at the beginning of the year.^[2]

Education and career

Salomon was born in Rome, to an English mother and Danish father. He completed his BA, MA, and his PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, writing his dissertation on the artworks commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini.^[1][3][4]

He previously served as the Curator in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was responsible for organizing and overseeing important exhibitions that highlighted key works of European art. Prior to that, he was the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, where he curated several notable exhibitions.^[5]

He is particularly well known for his expertise on the Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese.^[6]

From April 2020 through July 2021, he hosted an online program, "Cocktails with a Curator", with fellow Frick curators Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit.^[7][8] The program examined artworks at the Frick and had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube and are the basis of a book by Rizzoli Electra.^[9]

Works

• 2009 – Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece
• 2010 – Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
• 2012 – Van Dyck in Sicily: 1624–1625 Painting and the Plague
• 2014 – Goya and the Altamira Family
• 2014 – Veronese (catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London)
• 2016 – Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture
• 2016 – The Art of Guido Cagnacci
• 2017 – Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored
• 2017 – Murillo: The Self-Portraits (with Letizia Treves)
• 2017 – "D. H. Lawrence among the Etruscans".^[10] Apollo, 5 August 2017.
• 2018 – Holbein's Sir Thomas More (with Hilary Mantel)
• 2018 – Canova's George Washington (with Guido Beltramini and Mario Guderzo)
• 2019 – Rembrandt's Polish Rider (with Maira Kalman)
• 2019 – David Bowie's Tintoretto: The Lost Church of San Geminiano (with Christina Currie)
• 2019 – "An Important Work by Titian has been Hiding in Plain Sight".^[11] Apollo, 20 September 2019.
• 2020 – Titian's Pietro Aretino (with Francine Prose)
• 2021 – Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building / foreword by Roxane Gay; photographed by Joe Coscia Jr.; with texts by Ian Wardropper and Xavier F. Salomon.
• 2022 – Fragonard's Progress of Love (with Alan Hollinghurst)
• 2022 – Paolo Veneziano's Coronation of the Virgin (with Nico Muhly)
• 2022 – Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Collection (with Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit)
• 2023 - Rosalba Carriera's Man in Pilgrim's Costume (with Nicolas Party)
• 2023 – Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini
• 2023 – Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters (with Aimee Ng and Stephen Truax)
• 2025 – Goya's Forge (with Hisham Matar)
• 2025 – Porcelain Garden: Vladimir Kanevsky at The Frick Collection
• 2025 – The Frick Collection: The Historic Interiors of One East Seventieth Street

References

1. "Xavier F. Salomon". The Frick Collection. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
2. Xavier F. Salomon appointed to be new Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
3. "New Chief Curator for the Frick". The New York Times. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
4. "Xavier F. Salomon". Center for Curatorial Leadership. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
5. Jeromack, Paul (12 July 2010). "Met Nets Dulwich Curator". Artnet. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
6. "Interview with Alain Elkann".
7. "About the YouTube Series: Cocktails with a Curator"
8. Marius, Marley (1 May 2020). "How Art Galleries and Museums Are Bringing Their Collections to Virtual Audiences". Vogue. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
9. "Bottoms Up, Bronzino! The Frick Has a New Book Pairing Classic Cocktails With Masterpieces From Its Collection", artnet.com. Accessed 15 March 2024.
10. "D. H. Lawrence among the Etruscans"
11. "An Important Work by Titian has been Hiding in Plain Sight"

External links

• Salomon, Xavier F. (30 November 2016). "Travels with Cagnacci". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 25 June 2023.