Every Ocean Hughes and Ksenia M. Soboleva (2023)

Video (1:23:54): Artist Every Ocean Hughes (Emily Roysdon) joins Brooklyn Rail contributor art historian Ksenia M. Soboleva for a conversation. The Zoom event concludes with a poetry reading by Jeanetta Rich.

Every Ocean Hughes

Every Ocean Hughes (f.k.a. Emily Roysdon) is a transdisciplinary artist working in performance, photography, video and text. Hughes has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions internationally and currently has two shows up in NYC: Alive Side, a solo show at the Whitney Museum and Signals: How Video Transformed the World at MoMA. She has received commissions for new work from Tate Modern, London (2012, 2017), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014), and The Kitchen, New York (2010). Collaboration has been a central part of her practice including as editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR, lyric writing for several bands and costume design. She is the Sachs Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

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