Photo by Lara Kaur

Photo by Lara Kaur

Kimberley Acebo Arteche (she/they) is an educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the hybrid cultures formed by technology, movements of immigrants in America, and the way movements through space and spaces has been affected by these two.

Arteche received her BFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and MFA from San Francisco State University where she received the School of Art’s Distinguished Graduate award. She has been awarded the Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Award by the San Francisco Foundation, was Kearny Street Workshop’s Featured Visual Artist in the 2015 APAture Festival, and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Growlery. She has shown at East Tennessee State University, SOMArts Cultural Center and at the Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center in Hilo, Hawaii.

Arteche serves on Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council, SOMA Pilipinas’ Arts & Culture Committee, and is the Visual Arts curator for UNDISCOVRED SF. In 2019, she was as the Production Manager for “We Came Here to Live” by Skywatchers by in the Tenderloin, was previously the Artists in Education Program Coordinator at Southern Exposure, working to integrate more equitable and transformative pedagogies and was the Co-Founder of Balay Kreative, a future Filipinx American Cultural Center in the South of Market. She is currently the Co-Director at the Berkeley Art Center and is an adjunct lecturer at San Francisco State University.

Arteche is committed to collaboratively creating decolonial practices within arts institutions, while creating visibility and providing resources for emerging Asian Pacific American and BIPOC Artists.
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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