Natalie KingOAM (born 1966) is an Australian curator and writer working in Melbourne, Australia. She specialises in Australian and international programs for contemporary art and visual culture; exhibitions, publications, workshops, lectures and cultural partnerships across contemporary art and indigenous culture.[1]
Since 2017, she has been a senior research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia[5] and was recently appointed to the role of enterprise professor at the VCA.[6] In that role she was named in The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence awards for Arts, Culture and Sport in October 2018.[7] In September 2019, King was appointed as curator of the first Pacific and transgender artist, Yuki Kihara, to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022.[8]
Early life
Natalie King grew up in North Balwyn, Melbourne Victoria, in a conventional Jewish household.[9] From a young age she had an interest in the indigenous history of the city, including the work of Aboriginal artist Destiny Deacon and long-time collaborator Virginia Fraser.[9]
Education
King completed a Master of Arts (M.A.), Visual Arts & Museum Studies at Monash University in Victoria Australia, between 1991 and 1993.[10]
Career
Venice Biennale
Natalie King's curatorships include Tracey Moffatt's exhibition for the Australian pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017;[4][11]for the first Pasifika and Samoan artist, Yuki Kihara for the New Zealand pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022;[12] and in 2024, the inaugural Timor-Leste pavilion, Maria Madeira: Kiss and Don’t Tell at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024.[13]
Other institutions and projects
King's previous roles include Chief Curator of Melbourne Biennial Lab, City of Melbourne; senior research fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne and Creative Associate of MPavilion.[1][4]
Awards
In 2018, Natalie King was selected as a finalist for the Australian Financial Review100 Women of Influence, an award established to recognise the achievements of Australian women across a broad range of professions and disciplines.[14]
In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, King was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to the contemporary visual arts".[15]
In 2023 King won the Best Artist-Led Publication AWAPA award by the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand for editing the publication Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara. (Thames and Hudson, 2022)[16]
Publications
King was co-editor (with Professor Larissa Hjorth and Mami Kataoka) of the anthology Art in the Asia Pacific: Intimate Publics, Routledge, 2014;[1] editor/curator of Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art;[1] and co-editor of a publication on biennial curator Hou Hanru.[4] Widely published in arts media including LEAP, Photofile and Flash Art,[1] she is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Paris.[2]
Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, by Natalie King, Thames & Hudson, 1 May 2017 ISBN9780500501078[17]
Whisper in my mask: TarraWarra Biennial 2014, edited by Natalie King and Djon Mundine, TarraWarra, 2014, ISBN9780980540871
Hou Hanru, edited by Natalie King and Victoria Lynn, University of Melbourne, 2013, ISBN9780734048875
Jitish Kallat: Circa, edited by Natalie King and Bala Starr, University of Melbourne, 2012, ISBN9780734048226
Shadowlife, curated by Djon Mundine and Natalie King, Asialink, 2012, ISBN9780734047571
Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Edited by Natalie King, 31 August 2010 ISBN9781863955010[18]
Destiny Deacon: Walk & don't look blak, curated by Natalie King, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004, ISBN1875632972
Select exhibition curatorships
2024, Kiss and Don’t Tell, Timor Leste (Democratic Republic of) Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice[19]
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