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, Ursula Magazine Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as various monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Baxter St. Camera Club, Candice Madey Gallery, and La MaMa Galleria. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum, and the 2022-2024 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society. Currently, she is working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation, and co-editing the first monograph on TRIAL BALLOON, a 1990s gallery and project space that highlighted lesbian artists. She teaches at the New School and NYU.