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Nate King

Assistant Professor
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Nate King is a multidisciplinary artist using animation and compositing techniques to create mixed-media short films and installations. Production methods include video performance, hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation, stop motion, and projection mapping. King's work examines themes of identity and contemporary internet aesthetics.

Experimental Animation, Narrative Storytelling, Queer Studies, Internet Aesthetics,

ART 3604: Stop-Motion Studio
ART 3704: Collaborative Production Studio
ART 3504: 2D Animation Studio
ART 4514: Video and Compositing Studio

2025 King, N., Tiger Lily Mountain Pass, screening, Frameline Festival, San Francisco, California, United States.

2024 King, N., Tiger Lily Mountain Pass, screening, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

King, N., Interface: Cruisin’, screening, selected for experimental programme, third edition of Altered Images Film and Music Festival, London, UK.

King, N., I’m Sorry Mamma I’m A Cowboy, screening, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival.

King, N., Cohn, R., Becker, M., Water Signs, group show, Drama Club Gallery and ACRE Artist residency

King, N., Fly Mask, installation, Growing Up Queer in the South, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC.

King, N., Learning to Live Alone, installation, New Waves 2020, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA.

2025 Selected for Wassaic Project Artist Residency

2024 Selected for ChaNorth Artist Residency

2024 Selected for Haystack Mountain School of Craft Open Studios Residency

2023 Selected for Stove Works Artist Residency

Selected for ACRE Artist Residency, 2021

Education

MFA, Digtial Arts and Animation, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

BA, Cinema, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia