Yuliya Sorokina is an Almaty-based contemporary art curator, writer and lecturer at the T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Born in 1965 in Shchuchinsk, she graduated from the Artistic-drawing faculty of the Abai Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. In 1992, she also completed post-graduate course in Cinematography at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and courses in art-management in 1998-1999 at European Summer Academy for Culture & Management in Salzburg and at Institut fur Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna.
Since 1999 she is the chairperson of the Board of Asia Art+ Public Foundation, which she co-founded in 1996. Among the curator’s extensive curatorial experiences, she curates the Muzykstan: Media Generation of Contemporary Artists from Central Asia as a commissioner and curator at the second Central Asian Pavilion at the 52 Venice biennale in 2007.