Audrey Storm

Audrey Storm is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History. She studies American art and visual culture from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary with a focus on the North American West and the Transpacific, encompassing questions of place, nature, race, and empire. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Through Line: Painting Abstraction in the Transpacific Northwest” reorients Abstract Expressionism through the relationships between the West Coast, East Asia, and Native North America. 

Prior to joining the department, she held internships at Bonhams, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Asian American Arts Alliance. She also was a studio assistant for the artist Titus Kaphar. She holds a BA from Yale University in History of Art and Economics, where her undergraduate thesis won the Vincent D. Andrus Memorial Prize. [arstorm@usc.edu]

• BA Yale University, 5/2018