Liz Nowell

Liz Nowell is an arts leader and curator with over ten years’ experience working in Australian and international contemporary art. Before joining the Institute of Modern Art in 2019, Liz was the founding CEO of Adelaide’s leading contemporary art space, ACE Open and Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. Previous to this she has held positions at Sydney College of the Arts, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, SafARI, Tandanya – National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and University of NSW Art and Design. Her curatorial projects include Invisible Border: Khadim Ali (2021); Next Matriarch, co-curated with Kimberley Moulton (2017); putsch: proppaNOW (2010) and The Violet Ballet by Sally Smart (2019).