• 2026

    2025

    • Waning Crescent, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles, CA

    • This is Native Art, Golden History Museum, Golden, CO

    • This is Native Art, Tread of the Pioneers, Steamboat Springs, CO

    2024

    • This is Native Art, Colorado State Capitol, Denver, CO

    • Refractions: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Annenberg Community Beach House Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

    • Ancestral Archives, Sovern, Los Angeles, CA

    • Defining Our Legacies: Ancestor to Ancestor, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

    • Native American Heritage Month Art Show, Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery at City Hall, Los Angeles, CA

    • Tobacco Embers, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

    • Solo Exhibition, Diary of a Native Femme(nist), The Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA

    2022

    2021

    2019

    • Winter Show, LOOM Indigenous Arts Gallery, Gallup, NM

    • Indigenous Feminist Spatiality Exhibit, University of New Mexico FabLab Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

    • Erasure: Native American Genocide, ReflectSpace, Glendale, CA (catalogue)

    2018

    • Comida es Medicina, Galería de La Raza, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

    • This is How They Keep, PainSugar Gallery, Riverside, CA

    • When She Rises, Social and Public Art Resource Center Duron Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • Hear Our Voices: A Women-Centric Show, Avenue 50 Studio and Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • Spoken/Unspoken: Forms of Resistance, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

    2017

    • The Art of Indigenous Resistance Traveling Art Show, Honor the Earth (various galleries)

    • Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    • Mass Incarceration Since 1492, JusticeLA Now #JailBedDrop Project, Los Angeles, CA

    • Buenavista, Tracy, Martha Escobar, Bao Lo, Theresa Montaño, Jose Navarro, and Kimberly Robertson. “Foreword: Decolonial Love and an Abolitionist Ethnic Studies Praxis” in Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Love, Knowledge, and Revolution, edited by Nicholas Baham, JocylnSacramento, Carlos Salomon, Jennifer Tran, and Anndretta Lyle Wilson. New York: Routledge, 2026.

    • Robertson, Kimberly and Jenell Navarro. “Postcard from an Otherwise World,” (book cover art) in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, edited by Tiffany Lethabo-King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

    • Navarro, Jenell and Kimberly Robertson. “The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey,” in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, edited by Tiffany Lethabo-King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

    • Robertson, Kimberly. “Slay,” (serigraph and artist statement) in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, edited by Tiffany Lethabo-King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

    • Navarro, Jenell and Kimberly Robertson. “Mass Incarceration Since 1492,” in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, edited by Tiffany Lethabo-King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.Robertson, Kimberly. “In Aunties We Trust,” (serigraph) in Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity, written by Laura Harjo. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019.

    • Robertson, Kimberly. “In Aunties We Trust,” (serigraph and artist statement) in Sovereign Traces, Volume 2: Relational Constellation, edited by Elizabeth LaPensée. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019.

    • Harjo, Laura, Jenell Navarro, and Kimberly Robertson.  “Leading with Our Hearts: Anti-Violence Action and Beadwork Circles as Colonial Resistance,” in Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters, edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018.

    • Robertson, Kimberly. [Review of #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale]. Transmotion 4, no. 1 (2018).

    • Robertson, Kimberly.  “Las Aunties,” in Deer Woman: An Anthology, edited by Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre. Albuquerque: Native Realities Press, 2017.

    • Robertson, Kimberly.  “The ‘Law and Order’ of Violence Against Native Women: A Native Feminist Analysis of the Tribal Law and Order Act.”Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, no. 1 (2016): 1-23.

    • Robertson, Kimberly. “Rerighting the Historical Record: Violence Against Native Women and the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.” Wicazo Sa Review 27, no. 2 (2012): 21-47.

    • Robertson, Kimberly. “Globalization and the Politics of Native Breastfeeding.”off our backs 36, no. 4 (2006): 61-64.

    • Professor, American Indian Studies

      California State University, Long Beach (Fall 2021 – Present)

    • Women’s Studies, Ph.D.

      University of California, Los Angeles (2012)

      Dissertation: Un-Settling Questions: The Construction of Indigeneity and Violence Against Native Women.

    • Women’s Studies, M.A.

      University of California, Los Angeles (2009)

    • American India Studies, M.A.

      University of California, Los Angeles (2008)

      Thesis: Rerighting Herstory: A Case Study of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

    • American Culture, M.A.

      University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001)

    • English Language & Literature, B.A.

      University of Northern Colorado, Greeley (1999)

      Honor’s Thesis: Women of Color, Feminist Presses, and the United States Academy.

    • Individual Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council, Fall 2021

    • Future Art Award Featured Artist, Mozaik Philanthropy, Summer 2021