Roski Talks: Alexis Bard Johnson

ABOUT ALEXIS BARD JOHNSON

Alexis Bard Johnson is the Curator at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. She oversees the exhibitions, programs, and art collection at one of the largest repositories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer materials in the world. She most recently curated Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation, as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide. Her previous exhibitions include Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning, Looking for Lesbians and Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas. Johnson earned her PhD in Art History with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University. Her essay, “The Work of Being Sexed: Andy Warhol on Drag,” appeared in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End (MIT, 2018). She also contributed to the revised edition of Art and Queer Culture (Phaidon, 2019). Her essay, “Queer Visibility: Photography in American Print Culture, 1945-1980” is forthcoming in the Getty Museum’s Queer Lens exhibition catalog. Before joining the ONE Archives, Johnson worked at the Princeton Art Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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