After 40 years of service, Syracuse University Art Galleries director Domenic Iacono will step down from his position at the end of June, the university has announced.

Iacono arrived at SU in 1977 and has since held positions including the registrar, curator, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, according to an SU News release. In 2006, Iacono played a major role in creating the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery at SU’s Lubin House, a permanent exhibition space in New York City.

Iacono taught “Collection Management and Print Curatorship and Connoisseurship” within the graduate museum studies program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

He organized “Michelangelo: the Man and the Myth” in 2008. The exhibit featured 14 of Michelangelo’s drawings borrowed from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. The exhibit was displayed on campus and at the Palitz Gallery. The exhibit culminated more drawings than in all the collections in the United States combined.

Iacono’s exhibitions have toured nationally, including “An American in Venice: James McNeill Whistler and His Legacy,” which was displayed in museum across the United States, according to the release.

Other exhibitions he curated during his tenure at the university include, “Rembrandt: The Consummate Etcher,” “17th Century Printmakers, Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints,” “William Kentridge: The Nose and other Subjects,” “Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions” and “About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17.”

“Domenic’s vision, dedication and impact on the arts at Syracuse University is immeasurable,” said Jeffrey Hoone, executive director of the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers, in the release.