ABOUT
Yvette King is an artist and maker who builds a variety of things currently in New York city. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, her work ranges from text and photography to sculpture, installation and things that move. Her work is interested in process, material and production, with her practice addressing familiar sources and their dislocation. King works with objects as material outcomes (and failings) of human systems; in purpose, desire and intent. This often has hilarious results.
King graduated with Honours and a BA in Sculpture from Monash University in Melbourne, where she also received the Baldessin Foundation Travelling Fellowship. Her work has involved curatorial projects and three years on the directorial board of KINGS ARI, with projects exhibited around Australia and internationally in group and curated exhibitions. King worked as an Innovator in Residence at the Centre for Social Innovation over 2015 and as a Creative Producer at NYC founded experimental knowledge lab, The Un-School of Disruptive Design. She is co-founder of Verbal Fight Club and creates works freelance for exhibitions, commissions and fabrications, as well as educational workshops and events.
EXHIBITIONS
2016 Ceremonial, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2016 The Argus Project, TriBeCa Film Festival Storyscapes, NYC
2015 Romance died romantically, Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy
2014 Field Trip, Waterfront City Food Court, Melbourne
2013 My avant-garde is bigger than yours, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2013 Art or Cunning?, Watch this space, Alice Springs
2013 Bound Apart, Photography and Publishing exhibition, Rae and Bennett Gallery, Melbourne.
2012 The Sunshine State, Seventh Gallery, with Ellinor Forsberg
2011 Better than Art, Kings ARI, Melbourne, curated by Amy Marjoram
2011 Cutting Edge Gadgets from the 1980’s, Napier Hotel Arts Space, Melbourne
2010 Joke Work, Atelier 1537, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, curated by the C U Next Tuesday group
2010 KingsxKings, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2010 Wish you were here, Trocadero, Footscray
2010 A quarter turn on every screw, Kings ARI, Melbourne Curated by Kel Glaister
2009 It’s a Wonderful Life, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2009 Shifted, Shifted Gallery, Richmond, with Lou Hubbard
2009 Trepidation I report a concern, Library Arts Space, North Fitzroy
2008 World’s End, Carlton Hotel, Simon Pericich’s space, Melbourne
2008 I just can’t stand the suspense, Bus Gallery, Objects in Space Project, Melbourne
2007 Things in a room, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2007 Fixed Boundaries, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick
2007 Mesh, Span Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Debut III, Blindside Gallery
2006 DepART, Monash Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition, Honours Show, 2006
2006 Find me, follow me, Diatribe Gallery, Carlton
2006 Baldessin Foundation Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Fiction, Fitzroy Gallery Melbourne
2005 Monash Fine Arts Graduating Student Exhibition 2005
2005 Weapons of Mass Creation, The Foundry, Melbourne; part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2005
2005 Welcome (if you don’t communicate well, try harder. Try something really obscure) Runt Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2005 better things to come: (the end of the beginning), ArtHoles Gallery, Fitzroy
2004 Cross Cultural Flavours, St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
2003 re-constructed: works in cardboard, 4Cats Gallery, Abbotsford
Curitorial projects
2016 The Task, alternate venue project with Kel Glaister
2013 UNBOUND, Kings ARI Interstate emerging artist mentorship program, with Anabelle Lacroix
2010 Joke Work, actioned by Kel Glaister, Atelier 1537, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, as part of the C U Next Tuesday group.
2010 Mod Off, With Amy Marjoram
AWARDS
Baldessin Foundation Travelling Fellowship
Econoweld Sculpture Award
Collections & Publications
State Library of Victoria, Rare Books Collection: A Guide to the Art of Love and Planning (with Eleanor Forsberg) 702.81 P56FG
Excerpt Magazine: Common Ground (December 2012)
Excerpt Magazine: Issue #03
Excerpt Magazine: Issue #01