Andrea Geyer: a promise of lightning

Andrea Geyer is a multi-disciplinary artist engaging queer methodologies in un-sensing the construction and politics of time. Her lens-based works activate the lingering potential of specific events, places, or biographies to materialize the entanglement of presence and absence due to ideologically motivated omissions in archives and memories. Exhibitions include: MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art; IMMA in Dublin; TATE Modern in London; Generali Foundation, Secession in Vienna; Witte De White in Rotterdam; Sao Paulo Biennal and documenta12/ Kassel. Forthcoming in 2024 Gropiusbau, Berlin and Leslie Lohman Museum, New York. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the Associate Professor of New Genres at Parsons Fine Arts.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation on art, AIDS, and lesbian identity in the United States. Soboleva is currently working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation, and co-editing (with Svetlana Kitto) the first major publication on the lesbian gallery Trial Balloon. Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Ursula Magazine, as well as various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She teaches at the New School and NYU.