Salvador Salort-Pons

Quick Facts

Full Name	Salvador Salort-Pons
Occupation	Curator
Date Of Birth	Apr 18, 1970(1970-04-18)
Age	54
Birthplace	Madrid
Country	Spain
Birth City	Community of Madrid
Horoscope	Aries

Salvador Salort-Pons Biography

Salvador Salort-Pons is one of the most popular and richest Curator who was born on April 18, 1970 in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain. Salvador Salort-Pons (born April 18th 1970) is an art historian from Spain and a museum director. Since 2015, Salort-Pons is serving as director of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

From 2006 to the present, Salort-Pons was as the chief curator of The Meadows Museum of art on the campus of Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas. In that time, Salort-Pons assisted Yale professors locate the first Velazquez painting depicting the teachings of Mary. Mary.

In February 2008, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hired Salort-Pons as assistant curator of European Paintings. Later promoted to be the associate curator in 2011, Salort Pons embarked on a number of exhibition projects including “Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries” (2011). As the head of the European Art department at the DIA, Salort-Pons was the in-house curator for the traveling Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus exhibition. In 2013, Salort-Pons was appointed Executive Director of Collections Strategies and Information, overseeing a number of key departments at the DIA, including Collections Management, Conservation, and Publications.

Since becoming Director in the fall of 2015, Salort-Pons embarked on a number of projects to try to make the DIA more like a town square. He described the future of the DIA as a place where people can gather feel welcome, represented and included. Asserting that a museum is a place for the enjoyment of the arts but also a location where people can “drink coffee and chat.” Salort-Pons has repeatedly stated that his priorities directly involve increasing community interest and accessibility.

Salort-Pons’s curatorial debut was as an exhibition curator at the Memmo Foundation/Palazzo ruspoli in Rome. When he was at the Memmo Foundation, he co-curated “Il trionfo del colore: Collezione Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza” (Rome 2002) and “Velazquez” (Rome, 2001) that was the first monographic exhibit on the artist to be held in Italy.

Salvador Salort-Pons Net Worth

Salvador Salort-Pons is one of the richest Curator from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Salvador Salort- Pons 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Salort-Pons was was raised within Madrid, Spain. In 1993, Salort Pons graduated of the Complutense University of Madrid with an advanced qualification with a concentration in Geography along with History with a focus on The History of Art. While in the Complutense University of Madrid he was taught by the Director of the Museo del Prado, Alfonso Perez Sanchez.

In 1998, Salort-Pons was awarded the Rome Prize and attended the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome for two years. There he investigated how Spanish artist in Rome in the period of 17th-century. He graduated in 2000 and joined an associate of the Royal College of Spain in Bologna where he wrote his dissertation on the journeys Diego Velazquez made to Italy. The dissertation was published in 2002 and contained more than 50 documents that relate to the works and lives of Velazquez in his 2 visits in Italy (in 1629-31 and 1649-1651, respectively). One of Salort-Pons’s discoveries was the right date for his Velazquez Portrait of Innocent X.

In 2006, while working at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Salort-Pons received a Master of Business Administration from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

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Another major initiative Salort-Pons has focused on is diversifying DIA’s audiences, staff and board of directors. During Salort-Pons time as director, a number of non-traditional exhibitions and programs have been scheduled at the DIA and there has been an increased focus on collecting art by African American artists.

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Salvador Ranked on the list of most popular Curator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Salvador Salort-Pons celebrates birthday on April 18 of every year.