[2][5] As from 2017, she is 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.
[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.
[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.
[4][10] King curated the first Pasifika and Samoan artist, Yuki Kihara for the New Zealand pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2022.
[16] Natalie King is co-editor (with Professor Larissa Hjorth and Mami Kataoka) of the anthology Art in the Asia Pacific: Intimate Publics, Routledge, 2014.