Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989: Grey Art Gallery and Leslie-Lohman Museum

Ksenia M. Soboleva is an independent curator, writer, and PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Soboleva’s dissertation focuses on lesbian artists and the AIDS crisis in New York (1981-96), framing it within a larger genealogy of lesbian (in)visibility. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, the history of gender and sexuality, lesbian visual culture, and performance studies. Soboleva has curated exhibitions at the 80WSE Project Space, Honey’s, SPRING/BREAK, Assembly Room, and Stellar Projects. She has taught at New York University and the Cooper Union, and presented her research at various institutions in the United States and abroad. Soboleva is a contributing writer to Hyperallergic, and her writings have also appeared in artagenda, the Archive, and Critical Collective.

Nicholas Chittenden Morgan is a writer and art historian based in New York. A PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, his research focuses on questions of identity and difference in art of the 1980s and 1990s. He has contributed to Artforum, caa.reviews, art & education, Garage, the Financial Times, and several exhibition catalogs.