Top 10 Career Highlights

  • Curator of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017; the first solo exhibition by an Indigenous artist in the Australian Pavilion at Venice Biennale with record attendance, 338,000+ visitors and unprecedented media coverage including Tate, MoMA, Serpentine, Guggenheim Museum, Minister of Arts, Singapore, Prime Minister of Ireland, Governor General of New Zealand. For over 120 years, the Venice Biennale has been the most prestigious cultural event in the world with more than 80 participating countries. Work closely with Commissioner (businesswoman and philanthropist), Naomi Milgrom AO on all fundraising to achieve unprecedented financial support
  • Commissioning editor of the first book in 10 years on renowned Aboriginal artist Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, Thames & Hudson, 2017 achieving significant northern hemisphere distribution at TATE, MoMA bookstores with contributions from Professor Camille Paglia (University of Pennsylvania); Germano Celant (Prada Foundation); Djon Mundine OAM (Bundjulung activist, writer, curator); Alexis Wright (Waanyi author and winner of Miles Franklin Award 2007)
  • Chief Curator of inaugural Melbourne Biennial Lab: What happens now? With City of Melbourne and Melbourne Festival, 2016 at Queen Victoria Market comprising 8 temporary commissions including a live radio program that broadcast for 9000 minutes by the collective Field Theory
  • Curator of Conversations: Endless Acts in Human History, Sally Smart and Entang Wiharso at National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, 2016
  • Curator of major exhibition Episodes: Australian Photography Now at the 13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Korea, 2016 accompanied by a 360-page bilingual publication with Tracey Moffatt, Christian Thompson, William Yang and Polixeni Papapetrou amongst others
  • Co-curator of TarraWarra Biennial: Whisper in My Mask with Aboriginal Curator, Djon Mundine, 2014; reviewed as one of the Top 10 international exhibitions in the New York Times and referred to as “deliciously tantalizing” in the Huffington Post; of note King commissioned an outback camp and new commission of Aboriginal Collective, Tjampi Desert Weavers and Fiona Hall across the tri-state border which was subsequently presented at 2015 Venice Biennale
  • Inaugural Director of Utopia at Asialink, University of Melbourne; a pan-Asian cultural think tank developing cross regional initiatives and alliances, 2010-2013 with partners from Japan, Korea, India and Singapore
  • Curator/editor of the first comprehensive exhibition and substantial publication of one of Australia’s most significant 20th century photographers; Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art & Schwartz City, Melbourne, 2010; subsequently used as the publication for National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition on Carol Jerrems
  • Curator/Editor of the comprehensive survey exhibition and monograph, Destiny Deacon: Walk & don’t look blak, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Adam Art Gallery, Wellington; Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2004-6
  • Visual Arts Reporter, ABC radio, 2004-5; contribute a weekly segment to The Sunday Show