Yuliya Sorokina, PhD, is a writer, curator, and professor based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her research centers on the art history of post-Soviet countries. She is also assistant professor at the Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts in Almaty, and the Chairperson of the Board of Asia Art+ Public Foundation. Sorokina is currently a scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Sorokina’s major exhibitions and projects include: Digital Resource and Moving Virtual Museum of Central Asian Contemporary Art, astralnomads.net, 2013-ongoing; The School of Artistic Gesture for young artists, 2016-21; Eurasian Utopia: Post Scriptum, 2018-19; Muzykstan, 2nd Central Asian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennial, 2007. She has published numerous texts in local and international catalogs, books, journals, and social media.