Kimberley Acebo Arteche is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker, and healer working across photography, textiles, and ritual. Arteche is the co-founder of Balay Kreative, a future Filipinx American Cultural Center 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 is 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