[1] She previously served as the Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
[5] De Salvo served as Senior Curator at Tate Modern in London, where she worked from 1999 to 2004.
[6][7] During her time at Tate Modern, she organized exhibitions on Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol, and one of the Turbine Hall commissions, "The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor (2002).
[9] In this capacity, she organized exhibitions on artists like Warhol, Hélio Oiticica, Michael Heizer, and Steve McQueen, among others.
[12] De Salvo is the author of Staging Surrealism, a 1997 book about the surrealist art movement.