Kings Artist Run is a non-profit artist-led gallery in Melbourne’s CBD that functions as a collective of artists, writers, curators and academics. Founded in 2003, Kings Artist Run was formed to explore, interpret and participate in the mediation of new social and cultural meanings. 

Kings Artist Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers. Kings Artist Run assists and promotes the development of solo exhibitions, group and thematic projects, along with a program of events that includes performance, film screenings, public gatherings and talks.

The annual exhibition program at Kings Artist Run is formed around individual exhibition projects interspersed with thematic curatorial projects. Therefore each half-year of the exhibition and event program involves a thematic grouping of focused projects evoking and forming a discourse around specific subjects, supported by allied events and talks. Notably, Kings Artist Run equally supports artists wishing to undertake single or individual projects unrelated to our programming themes, locating these individual exhibition projects within a gallery culture involving focused curatorial undertakings that form a platform for initiating new ideas as a way of developing critical social relations.

Kings Artist Run is an entirely non-profit and altruistic collective seeking to provide a foundation for artists, while receiving support through programming fees, individual donations and sponsorships, along with periodic assistance from local, State and National arts funding bodies. Kings Artist Run receives support through the artists that show at Kings, the studio artists and writers, the community that supports us, and most generously through our volunteers.

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