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." Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, as well as various monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Candice Madey Gallery, La MaMa Galleria, and Assembly Room. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum, where she assisted in organizing the Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks exhibition. She is the recipient of the Baxter St. Camera Club of New York 2022 Guest Curatorial Initiative, where she will be opening an exhibition of photographs by Rachel Stern, titled “One Must Not Look At Anything.” She is also co-editing (together with Svetlana Kitto) the first monograph on TRIAL BALLOON, the lesbian 1990s gallery and project space founded by Nicola Tyson. She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society.