Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva (she/her, or any pronoun) 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. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as various artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. Previously, Soboleva was a Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society. She is the recipient of the Baxter St. Camera Club of New York 2022 Guest Curatorial Initiative, and the 2025 Dora Maar House Fellowship. She is currently completing her book manuscript "What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories" and co-editing  the first monograph on TRIAL BALLOON, a lesbian-run gallery and project space in the early 1990s, forthcoming with Karma gallery press.