Kimberly Martinez was born and raised in Los Angeles until the age of 9, when her family moved to the high desert. Originally finding her genuine love for art at the age of eleven through digital drawing, then being self-taught in traditional drawing, aswell as acrylic painting for many years, until seriously thinking about an art career after graduating high school, which has led to studying at the Academy of Arts University, San Francisco. Kimberly Martinez has since practiced painting with Oil and occasionally works with Acrylic Guache.