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Storm Bookhard is a writer and curator with a background in intermedia art practice. Her current work centers how Black subjectivity is embodied using pre and post internet strategies.
As the 2025 VisArts Emerging Curator, she organized Flip It & Reverse It: Spectacles of Blackness in Popular Media, an exhibition that interrogates Black hyper-visibility in mass media through found footage video art. Her recent projects also include Sem Parar, an exhibition and live music program that examines the Brazilian music genre, baile funk, and its global proliferation via digital networks.
Storm has held positions across the arts sector including roles at the Getty Research Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Zwirner, and The Brick. 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.
Storm holds a BFA in Fine Art and MA in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California. She is a PhD student in Duke University’s Program in Literature.