Kimberley Acebo Arteche is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker committed to reindigenizing cultural practices and fostering community-based art. Their work explores diasporic identity, memory, and belonging through installation, photography, and participatory projects. Arteche’s practice is deeply rooted in ritual, research, and ancestral knowledge, engaging communities in collective acts of remembrance and cultural reclamation.

Arteche is the co-founder of Balay Kreative, providing artist sustainability and professional development programs in SOMA Pilipinas, and has served on Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council, SOMA Pilipinas’ Arts & Culture Committee, and was the Visual Arts curator for UNDISCOVERED SF.

Arteche was Community Arts Panelist for the Zellerbach Family Foundation, is a Healing Justice Practitioner with the Anti-Police Terror Project, and is a 2023 Leaderspring LeadStrong fellow.

They are committed to collaboratively creating decolonial practices within arts, cultural, and community institutions, while creating visibility and providing resources for emerging Black, Indigenous & POC artists, cultural workers, and community leaders. As a trauma-informed & healing-centered systems strategist, they support ancestrally rooted leadership sustainability that centers liberation and healing justice for individuals and communities.
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Publications

Inquirer: Fil-Am Night Market in SF is Back
Marin Journal: Taking on Filipino Archetypes
HellaPinay: A Dialogue, A Reckoning: Filipinos in the Arts
SOMA Pilipinas: Kularts Convenes Third Annual Dialogue in the Diaspora Featuring Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Artists
Asian Journal : Interdisciplinary artist Kimberley Arteche creates remarkable things to connect art, history and culture
Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas, Volume 1, Issue 1-2, 2015 : "Shit be Tight" by Mark Dean Johnson
Asian Journal : Bringing in a diverse assembly of next-generation Asian American and Pacific Islander artists
Center for Art & Thought : Making Cultures
Filipino American Artist Directory: May 2017 Feature Interview
Tayo Literary Magazine : Guest Interview: "Ta,Too Project" by Kimberley Arteche