Art Historian Ksenia M. Soboleva in Conservation with A.K. Burns
Video (1.12.58): Brookly Rail zoom conversations – Sculptor A.K. Burns joins Rail contributor Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation about her exhibition and creative practice. They conclude with a poetry reading by Tess Brown-Lavoie. Recorded on Monday, June 5, 2023
A.K. Burns —— A.K. Burns is an interdisciplinary artist and associate professor in the Department of Art at Hunter College, CUNY. Working at the nexus of language and materiality, Burns troubles systems that assign value and explores their sociopolitical embodiment. Burns currently has a survey exhibition encompassing the last decade of her practice, Of space we are… is on view through July 9th at the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus OH. She has exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; and New Museum, New York. Burns is a 2023 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
https://akburns.net/
https://www.instagram.com/aaykayburns
Ksenia M. Soboleva —— New York-based writer and art historian Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva specializes in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled “Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States.” Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, art-agenda, and various exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Candice Madey Gallery, La MaMa Galleria, and Assembly Room. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Jan and Marica Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum. She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society, and Adjunct Professor of Art History at NYU.
https://www.kseniamsoboleva.com/
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