Ksenia Soboleva
Part-time Lecturer
Email
sobolevk@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled "Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States." She has taught at NYU and the Cooper Union, and presented her research in the United States and abroad. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and various exhibition catalogues. She is currently co-editing (with Svetlana Kitto) the first monograph on the 1990s lesbian gallery and project space TRIAL BALLOON. Soboleva has curated exhibitions at Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, Tappeto Volante Projects, Candice Madey Gallery, La MaMa Galleria, and Assembly Room. She was the 2020-2021 Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society.