Daniella
Rose King
is a London-
born writer, curator & producer concerned with the social history of art.
Daniella Rose King is a London-born writer, curator and producer concerned with the social history of art particularly when it brings to light forgotten, oppressed, or difficult histories, moments of struggle, and spaces of resistance.
She is the 2017-19 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining ICA she was based in New York where she worked with Naeem Mohaiemen on the documenta 14 commissions, Two Meetings and a Funeral and Tripoli Cancelled, and artist Simone Leigh as curatorial researcher for her New Museum exhibition and residency “The Waiting Room,” and Tate Modern project “Psychic Friends Network.” In 2017 she curated “On Visibility and Camouflage: Black Women Artists for BLM” at We Buy Gold in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and was the 2015-16 Whitney Independent Study Program Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow.
She has contributed to exhibition catalogues, magazines, journals and online platforms. Her writing has appeared in Ocula Magazine, Frieze, Art-Agenda, Document Journal, Art Monthly, Ibraaz, Harpers Bazaar Art, New African Magazine, Contemporary And, Portal 9 Journal, and Nafas Art Magazine. Further, she has written for institutions including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Baxter Street NY. She is the Fall 2018 Guest Editor of Ampersand Magazine’s Women & Performance imprint.
King was Assistant Curator at Nottingham Contemporary; Program Curator at MASS Alexandria, Egypt; Exhibitions and Events Manager at Iniva, London; visiting curator at Cornerhouse (now HOME) in Manchester and deputy curator of the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
In 2014 she co-founded the curatorial collective DAM Projects. DAM use temporary exhibitions and events to support emerging, underexposed and unorthodox artists, art scenes, discourses and debates. The inaugural program Sunday School ran from 2014-15 and featured six solo shows from recent UK art school graduates and six exhibitions looking at emerging international art scenes.