Kimberly Morris  was born in West Los Angeles, California and grew up in Leimert Park, CA.  Her rich Creole heritage has been a major influence on her work and personal identity.

Kimberly critiques self-identity, ideas of beauty, popular culture, and race in America via video, sculpture, photography, and painting.  She inserts herself into her work by casting her own body, using her hair, and portraiture—all forms struggling with the constraining expectations society imposes on women of color.  She writes, “Through the lens of beauty, I examine my position in the diaspora.  Pressures of fitting into what the majority culture defines as normal: neater hair and constrictive body typecasting, dictate my daily routine.”

Kimberly received both her BA and MA from California State University Northridge and her MFA from California State University Long Beach.  Recent exhibitions include Hairtage: Tangled, Twisted, & Black at Cypress College, Have To Hold at Launch Gallery, Residency at Cerritos College Art+ Tech culminating in the exhibition Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler, Biomythography: Currency Exchange at Claremont Graduate University. She was also awarded The College of the Arts Award from Cal State Long Beach 2015.