[1] He was the first Black artist to serve as both director and curator of a major San Francisco Bay Area art gallery.
King, and his friends Walter Askin, Wally Hedrick, David Simpson, and Paula Webb Clark-Samazan attended Pasadena City College (PCC) before they all moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.
[3] King worked primarily with collage, incorporating xerography, drawing, and magazine clippings.
In 1955, he was a co-founder of Six Gallery, along with his classmates from CSFA, Deborah Remington, Wally Hedrick, David Simpson, John Allen Ryan, and Jack Spicer.
King was part of the group exhibition Hopes Springing High: Gifts Of Art By African American Artists (2018) at the Crocker Art Museum; other artists in the exhibit included Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Evangeline Montgomery, Betye Saar, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Catlett, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Allen Stringfellow, and Mickalene Thomas.