Tracy Cooper-Lavery is Director, Gallery & Visual Arts at HOTA Home of the Arts Gold Coast. She is an arts museum leader with a career spanning 25 years including Director of Rockhampton Art Gallery where she was responsible for transforming the Gallery’s profile on a local, state and national level.

She has curated numerous exhibitions on Australian and international art and was instrumental in presenting high-profile international exhibitions at Bendigo Art Gallery including The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and Cecil Beaton: Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, London). Other recent projects have included the national touring exhibition Cream: Four decades of Australian art and The Prince | Michael Zavros. She is the curator of the forthcoming international exhibition Contemporary Masters.

Tracy has been awarded numerous professional development grants including the Australia Council Art Basel Hong Kong Curator’s Program 2017, the Gordon Daring Foundation International Travel Grant and was a participant in the Museums Australia Museum Leadership Program in 2012.