Image: Smiles Meyer
Storm Bookhard (b. 1999, NYC) is a curator, writer, and intermedia artist based in Los Angeles. Her curatorial projects have traversed diasporic legacies of craft, durational performance, and time based media. Her current exhibition, Flip It & Reverse It: Spectacles of Blackness in Popular Media investigates the harmful cycles of Black hyper-visibility in popular culture and mass media.
She has assisted with exhibitions for the Getty Research Institute’s (GRI) Expanding the Study of Performance in Women Artists' Archives initiative and conducted curatorial research in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection.
Storm has held positions across the arts sector including roles at the Getty Research Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, David Zwirner, and Regen Projects. Her writing has been published by the Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions (AWARE), the Boston Art Review, and Harvard University Press. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and she is the 2025 VisArts Emerging Curator.
Storm holds a BFA in Fine Art as well as an MA in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.