Alexis Bard Johnson

Alexis Bard Johnson, PhD is the Curator at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles. She oversees the exhibitions, programs, and art collection at one of the largest repositories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer materials. She most recently curated The Space We Take: Portraits from the Archive and Holding Patterns by Alexandra Juhasz. Her exhibition Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation was named one of the top 50 global exhibitions of 2024 by Hyperallergic. Her previous exhibitions include Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning, Looking for Lesbians and Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas. Her essay, “Queer Visibility: Photography in American Print Culture, 1945-1980” was recently published in the Getty Museum’s Queer Lens exhibition catalog (Getty, 2025). Before joining ONE Archives, Johnson worked at the Princeton Art Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.