Katya Kazakina has been covering the art market for Bloomberg News since 2006. She has reviewed gallery and museum exhibitions, profiled artists and collectors and reported from major auctions and art fairs. She regularly appears on Bloomberg radio and television and contributes to Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. Her articles won top awards from Los Angeles Press Club and the Society of Silurians.

Kazakina is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Born in Leningrad, she moved to the U.S. as a political refugee with her parents in 1990. She lives in New York City.