ANU School of Art alumnus Jason Smith has been appointed Director of Geelong Gallery. Smith, who is currently the Curatorial Manager of Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, has worked in the art museum sector for 25 years and is an internationally recognised director and curator. 

He was previously Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art from 2008 to 2014, Director of Monash Gallery of Art from 2007 to 2008, and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria from 1997 to 2007. 

Smith has curated over 40 exhibitions, including but mostly air at the ANU School of Art Gallery in 2013. He graduated from ANU School of Art, majoring in Printmedia and Drawing, in 1987.