Kimberley Acebo Arteche is an educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist working in photography, installation, social practice, and performance. 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 and was Kearny Street Workshop’s Featured Visual Artist in the 2015 APAture Festival. She has shown at East Tennessee State University and at the Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center in Hilo, Hawaii. She serves on Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council, SOMA Pilipinas’ Arts & Culture Committee.

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