Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and an artist. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA and has spent the last two decades living and working in Los Angeles on unceded Tongva lands. She earned a PhD in Women’s Studies from UCLA in 2012 and co-founded Meztli Projects in 2018.

Her creative practices center Native feminisms, kinship, storytelling, decolonization, and Indigenous futurities and currently include beadwork, screen printing, collage, installation art, and zine-making. She utilizes high-femme aesthetics to address the myriad forms of violence that accompany racialized capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy while also encouraging viewers to consider the radical practice of making joy and laughter in service of collective healing and liberation.

Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous community, university, public, and private galleries as well as peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies. Robertson’s first solo-exhibition, Diary of a Native Femme(nist) was hosted by the Chapter House in the spring of 2024. She is also an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and facilitates beading circles and art-making workshops with Native and non-Native communities both locally and nationally.