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Natalie King – Abridged Biography
Dr Natalie King OAM is an Australian curator, scholar, writer and former Enterprise Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focusses on multispecies assemblies, feminism and Indigeneity from the Global South. She has curated three national pavilions at the Venice Biennale: Maria Madeira: Kiss and Don’t Tell, the inaugural Timor-Leste Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024; Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp, Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2023, the first transgender artist from Samoa, and Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Australian Pavilion, the 57th Venice Art Biennale 2017.
King is President of AICA-Australia (International Association of Art Critics, Paris) and she has contributed to numerous publications including Phaidon books, Flash Art International, LEAP, Ocula and Art + Australia as well as Editor, Kaylene Whiskey: Do you believe in love?, Thames & Hudson. In 2020, King was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to the contemporary visual arts" and the University of Melbourne’s Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence.