Alexis Bard Johnson
Curator of the ONE Archives
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 The Space We Take: Portraits from the Archive and Fairy Prince. Previously she curated Sci-fi, Magick, Queer LA: Sexual Science and the Imagi-nation, as part of the Getty’s PST Art initiative, Looking for Lesbians, and Archival Intimacies: Queer South/East Asian Diasporas. Johnson earned her PhD in Art History with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University in 2019. 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). Before joining the ONE Archives, Johnson worked at the Princeton Art Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. When she is not researching and writing about queer visual culture, she loves to spend time baking and gardening. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in Los Angeles with her wife, toddler, and their two tuxedo cats.