Inez Storer

Her 2004 exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History was organized by the museum at Santa Clara University and concerned personal identity and the discovery of her heritage. A 2003 review in the San Jose Mercury News said, "Pictures, we like to think, should yield up their meanings easily – at least pictures of the real world: flowers, animals, people and the like. So it can be a bit discomfiting when our expectation of such instant understanding is thwarted, as so often happens in the art of Inez Storer." Her art is also influenced by Hollywood stage design and can be in seen in the "theatrical space" that her female figures inhabit in much of her work. Storer's art often deals with difficult issues that are hidden within symbols and children's stories. Her work has been compared to that of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henri Rosseau, Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí.

Storer lives in Inverness, California, and was married (from 1987 until his death in 2021) to Prince Andrew Romanoff, an artist and the grandnephew of Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor. She was a friend of author Philip K. Dick.

From 1968 through the 1970s, she taught at the College of Marin in Kentfield. She held a teaching appointment at San Francisco State University from 1970 to 1973. She taught briefly at UC Santa Cruz in 1976 and then at Sonoma State University from 1976 to 1988. Storer also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1981 to 1999. Storer was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and 1997.

As a child, she spent time on Hollywood movie sets with her father, Franz Bachelin, who worked as an art director. From 1951 to 1955, Storer attended the San Francisco College for Women, and she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the Dominican College in 1970. She earned her master's degree in 1971 from California State University, San Francisco (now San Francisco State University).

Inez Mary Romanoff (née Bachelin, formerly Storer; born October 11, 1933), known as Inez Storer, is an American painter and mixed-media artist who creates work in the magical realism genre.

Storer was born in Santa Monica, California, on October 11, 1933, to a Catholic father, Franz Bachelin, and a Jewish mother, Anita Hirtfield. She was raised in her father's Catholic faith. When her mother was on her deathbed, Storer learned that her mother fled Germany to escape Nazism. Storer had believed that there was more to her family's past than she had been told and had suspected that she had Jewish ancestry since the age of thirteen. Storer's mother said that all of her relatives had died, but after her mother's death, Storer reportedly located more than two dozen cousins, some living in California.