Genevieve Cortinovis, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, curated the 2025 exhibition “Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939.”
She also co-curated the St. Louis presentation of “Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz” (2022), “Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015” (2017) and “St. Louis Modern” (2015), and curated “Blow-Up: Graphic Abstraction in 1960s Design” (2015). She holds a master’s degree in the history of decorative arts, design, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center and a bachelor’s degree in art history from Barnard College, both in New York City. She is a co-author of the “St. Louis Modern” catalogue and a contributor to “Dutch New York Between East and West,” published by Yale University Press.
She joined the Museum in 2012 as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, after working with traditional weavers, dyers, and printers in Cambodia.
Notable media appearances and mentions
- “Roaring” rolls into the Saint Louis Art Museum on April 12 (St. Louis Magazine, April 9, 2025)
- St. Louis Art Museum’s ‘Roaring’ shows French cars and art, 1918-1939, in overdrive (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 8, 2025)
- The Saint Louis Art museum puts screen printing in the spotlight (St. Louis Magazine, Nov. 4, 2024)
- “Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII” (Apollo Magazine, Nov. 1, 2024)
- Art to See at U.S. Museums, Galleries and Auction Houses This Fall (The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2024)
- Explore LACMA’s Spanish colonial treasures at the Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis Magazine, June 18, 2024)
- Though it’s designed by Charles Eames, the Meyer House is first and foremost a family home (St. Louis Magazine, Dec. 20, 2018)
- SLAM presents a powdered-wig, peacock-colored, tattooed review of men’s fashion (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 24, 2017)
- Saint Louis Art Museum Curator Genny Cortinovis Merges Art, Design, and Detective Work (St. Louis Magazine, June 16, 2016)
- Long Hidden Isamu Noguchi Ceiling Revealed at U-Haul in St. Louis (Artnet, May 4, 2016)
- ‘St. Louis Modern’ showcases designers who changed the look of the world (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 10, 2015)
Television and video
- Men’s Fashion Takes Center Stage at SLAM (HEC TV, June 30, 2017)
Recent and upcoming SLAM exhibitions
- Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939 (2025)
- Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII (2024)
- Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800: Highlights from LACMA’s Collection (2024)
- Currents 123: Tamara Johnson (2024)
- Fabricating Empire: Folk Textiles and the Making of Early 20th-Century Austrian Design (2023)
- Global Threads: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (2022)
- Signed in Silk: Introducing a Sacred Jewish Textile (2021)
- The Bauhaus and its Legacy (2019)
- The Bauhaus and its Legacy: Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet (2019)
- Printing the Pastoral: Visions of the Countryside in 18th-Century Europe (2019)
- Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 (2017)
- Cross-Pollination: Flowers in 18th-Century European Textiles and Porcelain (2017)
- St. Louis Modern (2015)
- Blow-Up: Graphic Abstraction in 1960s Design (2015)
Genevieve Cortinovis, associate curator of decorative arts and design