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.
[2] 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.
In 2005 she was invited to speak on A Global Cultural Tapestry: Museums in an After Post Present, at the Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at the Cambridge University, England.
In 2007 King was a critic-in-residence at the Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence and gave a lecture titled "A Chaotic Topography of Tedium: Criticism & Exhibitions."
"[4] Elaine King has been awarded numerous grants from varied agencies including: Allworth Press published in September 2006, an anthology titled Ethics and the Visual Arts[5] that she and Gail Levin co-edited.