Alexey Ulko is an Uzbek art critic and curator. He graduated from the Samarkand University as a teacher of the English Language and Literature in 1991 and obtained an MEd TTELT degree from the University of Exeter, UK in 2001. Since 2003, he has been working as a freelance consultant in culture, arts and language for a range of international organisations.
In the mid-2000s, he started a new career as a contemporary art critic and curator and took part in a range of international and regional conferences and events organised by associations such as Association of Art Historians, European Society for Central Asian Studies and Central Eurasian Studies Society. In 2007 and 2008, he received awards for the best video art from the Museum of Cinema and Association of Film-makers of Uzbekistan. In 2011, he was a member of jury at the Central Asian Festival of Independent Cinema and in 2014 the chairman of the jury at the Novellasia Literary Festival. Ulko is also an author of over 40 articles about contemporary Central Asian art and culture and the book Uzbekistan Customs and Culture in the series Culture Smart! by Kuperard Publishers, UK (2016).