Elaine A. King

Elaine A. King is a curator, critic, professor, and editor.

Elaine A. King was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a joint interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1986 from the School of Speech (Theory and Culture) and History of Art. Dr. King holds a joint master's degree in Art History and Public Policy, from Northern Illinois University and her B.S. was awarded from Northern Illinois University in Art History and American History [Pre-Law Studies]. In 2002 she received a Certificate of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts Appraisal New York University. King is a Professor, at Carnegie Mellon University teaching the History of Art/Theory/Museum Studies and gives papers at international conferences.

Elaine A. King is currently a freelance curator and art critic. King served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery [1985-1991], and was the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, [1993-1995] following the Robert Mapplethorpe debacle. Throughout her career as a curator she organized over forty-five art exhibitions, including a wide range of one-person exhibitions and catalogues for artists, Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Tishan Hsu, Gordan Matta-Clark, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy Spero, Robert Wilson, David Humphrey, and Martha Rosler. In addition, she has curated a wide range of group exhibitions including Light Into Art: Photography to Virtual Reality, New Generations, New York, Chicago, The Figure As Fiction, Abstraction Today, Drawing in the Eighties, and Art In the Age of Information. King has been the guest curator several times for the Hungarian Graphic Arts Biennial in Gyór between 1993–2007 and has served on the award selection board.

In February 2007 she was the guest curator for the Maria Mater O’Neill mid-career survey exhibition in San Juan. King was the guest curator at the Mattress Factory, in Pittsburgh for the exhibition titled Likeness: After Warhol’s Legacy.Mary Thomas of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette wrote,"LIKENESS, is an examination of contemporary portraiture that is mysterious, reflective and always engaging, by guest curator Elaine King at the Mattress Factory."

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