STORM BRIA-ROSE BOOKHARD

(B. 1999, New York, NY)

Storm Bookhard is a conceptual artist, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles, CA.

Through her research based visual art practice, she explores concepts such as the physical and cultural preservation of North American political legacies. Her projects have included an archival body of work that investigates the visual history of the United States Presidency. She served as the Chief Curator of the 2022 BFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition which included the work of herself and a cohort of 17 graduating artists. Her work has been shown at La Mama Galleria (New York City), the Woods Studio Gallery at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), the Knockdown Center (New York City), and the DaVinci Art Alliance (Philadelphia). 

Alternately, Storm’s art historical interests are rooted in the spatial politics of contemporary museum development and post-colonial curatorial practice. Her graduate thesis investigates encyclopedic museums the methodologies of museum architecture. Her writing has been published in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Journal (Harvard University Press) and the Archive for Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions.

Storm has held positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in addition to several contemporary art galleries. She was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, the 2020 recipient of the Farber Fund for Student Excellence by the USC Roski School of Art and Design, and was a participant in the 2021 LACMA Summer Academy curatorial intensive. Storm is currently an Assistant Registrar at the Getty Research Institute. Storm holds a BFA in Fine Art (Photography/Film) from USC Roski School of Art and Design as well as an MA in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere.