Salatino is a native of
Stamford, Connecticut. He received his AB from
Columbia University and PhD from
University of Pennsylvania. He was curator of graphic arts at the
Getty Research Institute from 1991 to 2000, when he became head of the department of prints and drawings at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2009, he was named director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art. At Bowdoin, he curated exhibitions of the works of
Edward Hopper and
William Wegman. He left Bowdoin in 2012 to become director of art collections at The
Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. He was the first curator or director to have served on the staffs of
Los Angeles' three biggest visual art institutions. In 2017, Salatino was appointed the new Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and curator of prints and drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. and delivered the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in the History of Art at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum. == References ==