Kimberly Robertson | Left to right: Deer Woman (pink), Deer Woman (blue), Deer Woman (purple), Deer Woman (peach), 2024
Metal hangers, plastic and wood beads, lipstick knives
Kimberly Robertson:
Diary of a Native Femme(nist)
Diary of a Native Femme(nist) by Kimberly Robertson (Mvskoke) is a vibrant collection of new and recent works of beadwork and serigraphs.
Kimberly Robertson (Mvskoke)
Diary of a Native Femme(nist)
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 4th, 2024
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Exhibition runs, May 4th, through June 30, 2024
The Chapter House
1770 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
The Chapter House is pleased to present Diary of a Native Femme(nist), a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Kimberly Robertson. The exhibition is The Chapter House’s inaugural exhibition at their new location and will be on display from May 4 - July 13, 2024.
The works on view draw from her embodied experiences as a Mvskoke woman born, raised, living, and working on unceded California Indian lands and are heavily informed by Native feminist theories and practices. Robertson utilizes high-femme aesthetics to address the myriad forms of violence Native femmes experience under 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.
Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and an artist. Her scholarship and creative practices center Native feminisms, the sexual and gendered violence of settler colonialism, ceremony, storytelling, decolonization, and Indigenous futurities. She has published in journals such as Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society and Wicazo Sa Review, as well as peer-reviewed anthologies such as Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness and Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. Her creative practices currently include screen printing, collage, beadwork, installation art, and zine-making. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous community, university, public, and private galleries as well as peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies. She is also an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and facilitates beading circles and art-making workshops both locally and nationally.
Frequently asked questions
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Free parking is available Branden Street alongside the building and towards the end of the block on N Alvarado Street.
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Yes, the exhibition is on the first floor with easy access to the sidewalk.
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An Indigenous women-led community arts space. For Natives, by Natives. Accomplices welcome. Tongvaland (LA) + Navajo Nation.
Meztli Projects commissioned the artworks for this exhibition and are partially supported by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the Board of Supervisors through the American Rescue Plan.
