Artist Talk: Zoe Walsh in conversation with Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva, Writer and Art Historian
Photo Credit: Irina Kadyrova
The talk is open to the public and free to attend, but space is limited and RSVPs are encouraged.
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.
Zoe Walsh has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA; and Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France, among others. Walsh's work has been featured in group exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Peppers Art Gallery, Redlands, CA; Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT; La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. In 2019, the artist was a nominee for the Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and received the Al Held Foundation Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, Italy. In 2024, Walsh was awarded a residency at Fountainhead in Miami. Zoe Walsh earned their BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA; and their MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Walsh was born in Washington, D.C., and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
