Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva.

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. Soboleva practices an autobiographical approach to art history and an art historical approach to autobiography. 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 Society. She is the recipient of the 2022 Baxter St. Camera Club 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. She teaches at NYU Steinhardt.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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