Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history and an art historical approach to autobiography. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Cultured, 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. She is the recipient of the 2022 Baxter St. Camera Club Guest Curatorial Initiative, the 2025 Dora Maar Cultural Center Fellowship, the 2026 Emily Harvey Foundation Residency, and the 2026 Tee Corinne Travel Fellowship Award. 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 (with Svetlana Kitto, forthcoming with Karma gallery press). She is also developing a book and exhibition project on queer artists who turn to the sky as a space of imagination, as an extension of her personal essay “To Watch the Sky.” Soboleva teaches at NYU Steinhardt.