ARTIST BIO

Chicana Scholar and Artist Kimberly “Kim” Sandoval has been practicing art since 2014. Her primary media are oil painting, video art, and analog photography, which she uses to explore her autohistoria-teoria. Kimberly has exhibited her video artwork internationally. In 2023, she showcased her work for CultureHub in New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA, and at the Re:Karya Video Art Festival in Purwokerto, Central Java, in 2022 and 2023. She was also invited to exhibit at Nandur Srawung #9 in Yogyakarta, Central Java, in 2022 and at TJIFF in Cilacap, Central Java, in 2025.

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In addition to her artistic practice, she holds a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in 2D Studio Art and a Mexican American Studies Graduate Certification from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her work challenges border media stereotypes and represents the life and experiences occurring around and within the Brownsville-Harlingen, South Texas borderlands.

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She has contributed to academic discourse on culturally affirming art pedagogies. She has presented at the Curriculum & Pedagogy 2023 Conference, the TAEA 2023 Conference, and the NAEA 2024 Conference, detailing her experiences teaching painting at the undergraduate level. In 2024, she chaired a panel discussion on Border Arte, focusing on painting and autohistoria-teoria, at the CAA 112th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. Her research contributions include a chapter she co-authored with Dra. Christen S. Garcia published in the edited volume Walking Away: Refusing and Resisting Reactionary Curriculum Movements (IAP, 2024). Additionally, she has co-authored a manuscript on Visual Platicas as a methodology, which has been published in the Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, volume 24 (KGL Press, 2024).

 

Outside academia, Kimberly connects with the community through journalism and public speaking. She has written for Glasstire and was a guest speaker at the Chautauqua on Rio: Summer Lecture Series, hosted at Búho, which fosters local engagement in art and research. Through these platforms, she continues to amplify borderland narratives, using every medium at her disposal to challenge dominant perspectives and celebrate the region’s cultural richness.