Reece King was born in Tāmaki Makaurau in 1989. He grew up on the west coast at Te Henga and completed a Masters in Painting at Unitec Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka in 2021. In 2023 King was inaugural recipient of the Church Rd Art Initiative, an award made by the winery in partnership with MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri and Art News Aotearoa magazine. His work is included in Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s forthcoming Aotearoa Contemporary exhibition.
In 2020 King was one of the founders of Sanc, a ‘painter-run’ space on Upper Queen St that staged a number of first exhibitions before being repurposed as a studio in 2023. In 2020 King was winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, administered by the Waikato Society of Arts. In 2021 he was awarded an Eden Arts Karekare House Residency.
