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, Order of the Star of Italy (2018) Cross of Merit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2025) |
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 became the Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.[2][3][4]
Education
[edit]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][5][6]
Career
[edit]Salomon worked at the British Museum and the National Gallery, London, before joining Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2006, where he later became the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator.
His exhibitions at Dulwich included Best of British: The Story of the British Collection at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece, and an exhibition devoted to Salvator Rosa. He also co-curated Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery, presented at the Frick Collection in 2010.[7][8]
In 2011, Salomon joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as Curator of Southern Baroque Paintings in the Department of European Paintings, where he organized exhibitions and conducted research on major works of European art.[9]
Salomon is particularly known for his expertise on the Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese.[10] He curated the National Gallery exhibition Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice in 2014, the gallery's first major exhibition devoted to the painter. The exhibition followed over four years of negotiations by Salomon and National Gallery director Nicholas Penny to secure major international loans.[11][12]
At the Frick, Salomon played a leading curatorial role in the museum's temporary relocation to the Breuer Building. The temporary presentation placed the Frick's Old Master paintings and sculpture within the building's modernist architecture.[13][14]
Cocktails with a curator
[edit]From April 2020 through July 2021, Salomon hosted the Frick's online program Cocktails with a Curator with fellow Frick curators Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit.[15][16][17] The program examined works throughout the Frick's holdings and comprised 66 episodes, which remain available through the museum's website and YouTube channel.
The series subsequently became the basis of a book published by Rizzoli Electa.[18]
Works
[edit]2026
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Flora Yukhnovich. Boucher’s Four Seasons. 2026.
2025
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Hisham Matar. Goya's Forge. 2025.
- Salomon, Xavier F. Porcelain Garden: Vladimir Kanevsky at The Frick Collection. 2025.
- Salomon, Xavier F. The Frick Collection: The Historic Interiors of One East Seventieth Street. Photographs by Miguel Flores-Vianna. 2025.
- Salomon, Xavier F., Jacques Charles-Gaffiot, and Benoît Constensoux. To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum. 2025.
2023
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Nicolas Party. Rosalba Carriera's Man in Pilgrim's Costume. 2023.
- Salomon, Xavier F. Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini. 2023.
- Salomon, Xavier F., Aimee Ng, and Stephen Truax. Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters. 2023.
2022
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Alan Hollinghurst. Fragonard's Progress of Love. 2022.
- Salomon, Xavier F., and Nico Muhly. Paolo Veneziano's Coronation of the Virgin. 2022.
- Salomon, Xavier F., Aimee Ng, and Giulio Dalvit. Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Collection. 2022.
2021
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building. Foreword by Roxane Gay; photographs by Joe Coscia Jr.; texts by Ian Wardropper and Xavier F. Salomon. 2021.
2020
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Francine Prose. Titian's Pietro Aretino. 2020.
2019
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Maira Kalman. Rembrandt's Polish Rider. 2019.
- Salomon, Xavier F., and Christina Currie. David Bowie's Tintoretto: The Lost Church of San Geminiano. 2019.
- Salomon, Xavier F. "An Important Work by Titian Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight." Apollo, 20 September 2019.[19]
2018
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F., and Hilary Mantel. Holbein's Sir Thomas More. 2018.
- Salomon, Xavier F., Guido Beltramini, and Mario Guderzo. Canova's George Washington. 2018.
2017
[edit]2016
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture. 2016.
- Salomon, Xavier F. The Art of Guido Cagnacci. 2016.
2014
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Goya and the Altamira Family. 2014.
- Salomon, Xavier F. Veronese. Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London. 2014.
2012
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Van Dyck in Sicily: 1624–1625: Painting and the Plague. 2012.
2010
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery. 2010.
2009
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece. 2009.
Honours
[edit]
Cavaliere of the Order of the Star of Italy (2018), for his contribution to promoting Italy's artistic heritage abroad[21]
Cross of Merit (Crucem Ex Merito), Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (2025), awarded for his work organizing the exhibition To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at the Frick Collection[22]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Xavier F. Salomon". The Frick Collection. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ↑ Xavier F. Salomon appointed to be new Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
- ↑ Xavier F. Salomon, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
- ↑ Behrens, Edward. "New look, new director: what’s next for Lisbon’s best museum?", Apollo, 22 July 2026. Interview with Salomon.
- ↑ "New Chief Curator for the Frick". The New York Times. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ↑ "Xavier F. Salomon". Center for Curatorial Leadership. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ↑ Jeromack, Paul (12 July 2010). "Met Nets Dulwich Curator". Artnet. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ↑ "Director Thomas P. Campbell Announces Curatorial and Conservation Appointments at Metropolitan Museum" (Press release). Metropolitan Museum of Art. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "Xavier Salomon é o próximo diretor do Museu Gulbenkian". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Lusa. 24 June 2025. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "Interview with Alain Elkann".
- ↑ Kennedy, Maev (7 January 2014). "The genius scorned by MPs: National Gallery mounts major show of Veronese". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ Marcus, J. S. (14 March 2014). "Looking Up at Veronese's Grandeur". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York". The Art Newspaper. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "'No more velvet rope': how New York's beloved Frick museum opened up—and will now even sell coffee". The Guardian. 25 March 2025. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "About the YouTube Series: Cocktails with a Curator". Frick Collection. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ Marius, Marley (1 May 2020). "How Art Galleries and Museums Are Bringing Their Collections to Virtual Audiences". Vogue. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ↑ Wilkin, Karen (4 July 2020). "The Staying Inside Guide: Raise a Glass to Art History". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 July 2026.
- ↑ "Bottoms Up, Bronzino! The Frick Has a New Book Pairing Classic Cocktails With Masterpieces From Its Collection". Artnet News. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ↑ "An Important Work by Titian Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight"
- ↑ "D. H. Lawrence among the Etruscans"
- ↑ "Xavier Salomon Named Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia". Enfilade: 18th Century Worlds. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2026.
- ↑ "To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 13 July 2026.
External links
[edit]- Salomon, Xavier F. (30 November 2016). "Travels with Cagnacci". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
