He currently serves as chair and Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator in the department of prints and drawings of the Art Institute of Chicago.
At Bowdoin, he curated exhibitions of the works of Edward Hopper and William Wegman.
[6] He left Bowdoin in 2012 to become director of art collections at The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens.
[2][7] He was the first curator or director to have served on the staffs of Los Angeles' three biggest visual art institutions.
[8] 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.