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Alexis Bard Johnson oversees the exhibitions, programs and art collection at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 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 & 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 Ph.D. 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 & 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. 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, their son and their two tuxedo cats.