Kimberly Dawn Robertson
EXHIBITIONS
The Art of Indigenous Resistance Traveling Art Show, Honor the Earth (various galleries throughout the United States: May 2017 - Current); SLAY serigraph
Viva La Muxer Art and Music Festival and Exhibition, Plaza de la Raza (Los Angeles, CA:
May 2019); the past/present/future of Indigenous motherhoodmixed-media medallion (collaborative piece with Jenell Navarro)
Unravelling Collective Forms, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA: April – May 2019); Indigenous feminist zines
LOOM Indigenous Arts Indigenous Feminist Spatiality Exhibit, University of New Mexico FabLab Gallery (Albuquerque, NM: April 2019); Beadwerkmixed-media serigraph (collaborative piece with Jenell Navarro), In Aunties We Trust serigraph, Diary of An Indigenous Femmemixed-media installation (collaborative piece with Jenell Navarro), Not Enough Sagemixed-media collage (collaborative piece with Estella Burque)
Erasure: Native American Genocide, ReflectSpace (Glendale, CA: February – April 2019); In Aunties We Trust serigraph (catalogue)
Winter Show, LOOM Indigenous Art Gallery (Gallup, NM: December 2018 -- February 2019); Beadwerk mixed-media serigraph co-created with Jenell Navarro, In Aunties We Trust serigraph, Diary of an Indigenous Femme mixed-media installation co-created with Jenell Navarro
Comida es Medicina, Galería de La Raza (San Francisco, CA: August -- November 2018); Tafvmpuce serigraph (curated by Suzy González and Luz Calvo) (catalogue)
This is How They Keep, Pain Sugar Gallery (Riverside, CA: September -- October 2018); Beadwerk mixed-media serigraph co-created with Jenell Navarro, In Aunties We Trust serigraph, Diary of an Indigenous Femme mixed-media installation co-created with Jenell Navarro
When She Rises, Duron Gallery, Social and Public Art Resource Center (Los Angeles, CA: July -- September 2018); SLAY serigraph
2018 Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA: Summer 2018); In Aunties We Trust serigraph
Hear Our Voices: A Women-Centric Show, Avenue 50 Studio (Los Angeles, CA: May -- June 2018); Beadwerk mixed-media serigraph
Spoken/Unspoken: Forms of Resistance, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery (Santa Cruz, CA: February -- March 2018); SLAY serigraph
Ancestors & Radical Self-Acceptance Art Pop-Up, Gal.Chem.Ism Studio (Santa Monica, CA: October 20, 2017); In Aunties We Trust mixed-media collage
2017 Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art (Los Angeles, CA: June 24, 2017); SLAY serigraph
Viva La Muxer Art and Music Festival and Exhibition, Plaza de la Raza (Los Angeles, CA: March 11, 2017); SLAY serigraph
CREATIVE PRODUCTIONS
Beading a Path to the Future: An Indigenous Feminist Beading Program
Legacy LA, Los Angeles, CA: August 2019 – March 2020.
Tarahat Women’s Beading and Talking Circle
Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, San Fernando, CA: April 2019 – March 2020.
Memorial Portrait Workshop
In partnership with Indigenous Circle of Wellness and Meztli Projects, Los Angeles, CA: February 2020.
Memorial Medallion Workshop
East LA Summer Arts and Community Circles (in partnership with Meztli Projects and the East LA Consortium), Los Angeles, CA: August 2019.
Education > Incarceration jailed, zine, and video installation
Cal State LA #JailBedDrop, JFK Memorial Library North, Los Angeles, CA: August -- December 2018 (in collaboration with Joel Garcia, LBS and WGSS students, the JusticeLA coalition, Project rebound and Words Uncaged)
SLAY cropped hoodie and tote bag
B. Yellowtail Designs, Los Angeles, CA: November 2017 (fashion collaboration)
Zine and screen-printing workshop
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts 2018 Big Read, Los Angeles, CA: April 2018 (in collaboration with Self Help Graphics & Art)
Zine-making workshop
Autry After Hours, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA: April 2018 (in collaboration with Self Help Graphics & Art)
Mass Incarceration Since 1492 jailed and zine
JusticeLA #JailBedDrop Project, Los Angeles, CA: December 2017 (in collaboration with the Green Corn Collective)
Legacies of Resistance and Resilience community altar and zine
Self Help Graphics & Art Noche de Ofrenda at Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA: November 2017 (in collaboration with WGSS students from Cal State LA)
ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS, GUEST LECTURES, AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Invited Speaker
CSULA Womxn and Femmes of Color Conference: Our Narratives (Los Angeles, CA: November 2018); Indigenous Feminisms: Knowledges, Methodologies, and Practices
Speaker
CSULA American Communities Program Fellows Symposium (Los Angeles, CA: September 2018); Indigenous Feminisms: Knowledges, Methodologies, and Practices
Roundtable/Workshop Organizer and Speaker
Allied Media Conference (Detroit, MI: June 2018); Using Zines to Center Native Peoples in Community Organizing
Roundtable/Workshop Organizer and Speaker
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference (Los Angeles, CA: May 2018); The Future is Cut and Pasted: Zine-Making as a Native Feminist Practice
Keynote Speaker
CSUN Gender and Women's Studies 14th Annual Undergraduate Conference (Northridge, CA: May 2018)
Invited Speaker
CSULA Cross Cultural Center (Los Angeles, CA: April 2018); This Land is Your Land?
Invited Speaker
The Decolonizing Mental Health Festival (Los Angeles, CA: March 2018)
Invited Speaker
Stanford University Feminist and Gender Studies Department (Stanford, CA: February 2018); Indigenous Feminist Artivist Practices
Invited Speaker
Neighborhood Funders Group's Funders for a Just Economy Convening (Los Angeles, CA: January 2018)
Invited Speaker
University of California, Riverside Neo Native: Toward New Mythologies Symposium (Riverside, CA: November 2017); Native Feminist Artivist Practices
Invited Speaker
Strong Hearted Native Women's Coalition's Sexual Assault Against Native Women Conference (Temecula, CA: May 2017); Community-Centered Efforts to Address Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Workshop Facilitator
National Indian Nations Conference: Justice for Victims of Crime (Palm Springs, CA: December 2016); Community-Centered Efforts to Address Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Roundtable Speaker
National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Montreal, Canada: November 2016); Beading a Path to the Future: Indigenous Anti-Violence Work, Community Activism, and Walking With Our Sisters
Invited Speaker
University of California, Riverside Ethnic Studies Department (Riverside, CA: October 2016); Dancing with the Devil: The Indigenous Feminist Anti-Violence Movement and Federal Legislation
Invited Speaker
California State University, Long Beach American Indian Studies Program (Long Beach, CA: October 2016); ReRighting the Historical Record: Settler Colonialism and Violence Against Native Women
Invited Speaker
California State University, Los Angeles Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (Los Angeles, CA: September 2016); ReRighting the Historical Record: Violence Against Native and Indigenous Women
Invited Workshop Presenter
Torres Martinez Tribal TANF Monterey Park Teen Night (Los Angeles, CA: August 2016); #NativeLove
Roundtable Speaker
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, Hawai’i: May 2016); Activating Recuperation: How Community Mobilization is Decolonizing Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Invited Speaker
California State University, Northridge Department of Social Work Diversity Day (Northridge, CA: February 2016); Careful, Uncle Sam, Your Proclivity For Heteropatriarchy And Settler Colonialism Is Showing OR Why We Need Native Feminisms
Invited Speaker
University of Alberta Indigenous Masculinities Symposium (Edmonton, Canada: December 2015); The (Re)production of Indigenous Fatherhood: Settler Colonialism, Heteropatriarchy, and the Indian Child Welfare Act
Invited Speaker
California State University, Northridge Liberation Based Healing Conference (Northridge, CA: November 2015); Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism
Invited Speaker
University of Alberta Indigenous Foucault Symposium (Edmonton, Canada: October 2015); Dancing with the Devil: The Gendered Violence of Settler Biopolitics
Invited Speaker
University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA: October 2015); Dancing with the Devil: Settler Colonialism, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Anti-Violence Activism
Invited Speaker
University of California, Los Angeles Native American/Pacific Islander SITE Program (Los Angeles, CA: July 2015); Indians in Unexpected Places: My Journey Through Higher Education
Panel Organizer and Panelist
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference (Washington DC: June 2015); Beyond Metaphors: A Native Feminist Felt Theorization of Settler Colonialism and Academia
Panel Co-Organizer and Panelist
Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference (Toronto, Canada: May 2015); Un-Disciplined and Un-Civilized: Articulating, Confronting, and Resisting Settler Colonialism, Heteropatriarchy, White Supremacy, and Capitalism at CSUN
Invited Keynote Speaker
Whisper N Thunder: Gathering of Women (Westwood, CA: January 2015); Beyond The Recognition of Violence: U.S. Public Policy and Violence Against Native Women
Invited Panelist
California State University, Northridge Speak Up & Out Series: Let’s Talk About Race (Northridge, CA: December 2014)
Invited Speaker
University of California, Los Angeles Native American/Pacific Islander SITE Program (Los Angeles, CA: August 2014); The Recognition of Violence: U.S. Public Policy and Violence Against Native Women
Invited Co-Presenter
Tataviam Nation’s TAMIT Summer Academy (Los Angeles, CA: June 2014); American Indians and the Bechdel Test
Panel Chair and Panelist
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference (Austin, TX: May 2014); But Sometimes I Don’t Feel Like An Indian: Gendered Violence, Settler Colonialism, and The Regulation of Native Identity
Invited Panelist
California State University, Northridge Pride Center Event: “The Changing Same: Panel Discussion” (Northridge, CA: February 2014)
Panelist
Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference (Chicago, IL: September 2013); Unidentified Bodies: The Tribal Law and Order Act and Violence Against Urban Indian Women
Invited Speaker
University of California, Los Angeles Native American / Pacific Islander SITE Program (Los Angeles, CA: August 2013); Violence Against Native Women
Invited Keynote Speaker
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo American Indian Student Commencement (San Luis Obispo, CA: June 2013); Mavericks, Queers, Renegades: Natives in the Academy
Invited Speaker
College of the Canyons Book of the Year Presentation (Los Angeles, CA: April 2013); The Round House and Violence Against Native Women
Panelist
National Indian Child Welfare Act Conference (Tulsa, OK: April 2013); American Indian Families Partnership: Traditional Arts and Indian Education
Panelist
California Conference on American Indian Education. (Santa Barbara, CA: March 2013); American Indian Families Partnership: Traditional Arts and Indian Education
Panelist
American Studies Association Conference (Baltimore, MD: October 2011); Imagine That: Settler-Colonialism, Native Women, and Urban Indian Identity
Panelist
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference (Davis, CA: May 2011); (Re)locating Violence: Urbanity, the Construction of Identity, and Violence Against Native Women
Panelist
University of California, Los Angeles Race and Sovereignty Symposium (Los Angeles, CA: April 2011); Making Native Communities More Safe and Secure: The Tribal Law and Order Act and Gendered Urban Indian Identity
Panelist
Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference. (Riverside, CA: March 2011); Gender Out of Bounds: Urban Native Identity and Violence Against Native Women
Panelist
National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Denver, CO: November 2010); Unchartered Territory: Native Feminisms and Violence Against Urban Indian Women
Panelist
University of California, Los Angeles Critical Race Studies Symposium (Los Angeles, CA: March 2010); Unsettled Territory: Violence Against Urban Native Women
Invited Plenary Speaker
University of California, Los Angeles Thinking Gender Conference (Los Angeles, CA: February 2010); Un-Settling Questions: The Construction of Urban Native Identity and Violence Against Native Women
Panelist
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (Minneapolis, MO: May 2009); Rerighting Herstory: A Case Study of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Panelist
American Indian Studies Association Conference (Tempe, AZ: February 2008); Learning Service: Student Engagement in Strengthening Urban Indian and Tribal Communities
Panelist
Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference (Los Angeles, CA: April 2007); On the Edge of Privacy: Native Women, Sexual Violence, and Feminist Theory
Panelist
Indigenous Women's Symposium (Toronto, Canada: March 2007); 'Nits Make Lice': American Indian Breastfeeding, Genocide, and Transnational Processes
Panelist
American Indian Studies Association Conference (Tempe, AZ: February 2007); Native Women and Questions of Privacy: The Gendered Effects of Federal, State, and Tribal Legislation
Panelist
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute (Santa Cruz, CA: August 2006); Does it Really do a Body Good? The Politics of Native Breastfeeding
Panelist
QGrad: Graduate Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality (Los Angeles, CA: October 2001); Dancing Disco into the Heterosexual Heart of America: John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever
Panelist
National Conference on Undergraduate Research (April 2000); Women of Color, Feminist Presses and the United States Academy
Panelist
Pennsylvania State McNair Research Conference (August 1999); Women of Color, Feminist Presses and the United States Academy
Panelist
National Undergraduate Literature Conference (April 1999); Chicana Feminist Literature and Post-Modern Feminist Theory
Panelist
Rocky Mountain McNair Research Symposium and Graduate Education Conference (April 1999); Feminist Publishing By Women of Color