Myles Russell-Cook moves from NGV to ACCA as Artistic Director and CEO

Taking the reins from Max Delany, Myles Russell-Cook looks to cement ACCA as a leader in contemporary Australian art.
Myles Russell-Cook to lead ACCA. A young First Nations man with pale skin, short cropped brown hair and beard, wearing large clear frame glasses and a t-shirt with the text 'To look/without fear', standing in front of a colourful painting with dot work.

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) has announced Myles Russell-Cook as its new Artistic Director and CEO, following the news that Max Delany, who held the role for nine years, will depart the organisation in November this year.

Russell-Cook is currently Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art at the Gallery of Victoria (NGV), and played crucial roles in projects including QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, the Wurrdha Marra exhibit on the ground level of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and the First Peoples exhibition, The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, that is set to tour to the US in 2025.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_