Kimberly Fulton Orozco is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, printmaking, and conceptual installation. Her work interrogates the psychic aftershocks of assimilation and the social architectures that shape and sometimes shatter our sense of belonging. Aesthetics are as much about survival as they are about vision. The work is an act of love for ancestors and future generations, affirming land as a primary site of knowledge, relation, and continuity.

Born in Ridgecrest, California, Fulton Orozco is a Raven from the Yakhw’ Jaanaas clan of Craig, Alaska and a citizen of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. She was given the name Sáandlaanaay — “first light” — a name rooted in Haida oral tradition and cosmology. Her lineage is woven from Kaigani Haida, Mexican, and Scottish ancestry. This complex heritage informs a body of work deeply attentive to cultural memory and the conditions of disconnection and return.

At the core of her practice is a belief in visual language as a vessel of shared understanding — a structure that carries ancestral philosophies forward through the somatic practice of form. These principles, rooted in ancient creative processes, function not only as aesthetic choices but also as tools for navigating the present.