K.J. Baysa
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This year, after more than a decade of medical and curatorial work in
Manhattan, Kóan Jeff Baysa moved his base of operations to Los Angeles
to pursue his interests as a screenwriter and medical advisor in the
entertainment industry. Through Crystal Lujan, a casting director
friend, within several weeks, he was on a movie set critiquing and
correcting medical details.
A physician, curator, designer, writer, critic, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program - Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics, he specializes in designing and producing projects and events that mash-up and contextualize seemingly disparate subjects (e.g. "d'Afrique d'Asie" at Ethan Cohen Fine Art, "Red Beans and Rice" at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center) and explores the overlapping areas of contemporary creative practice, medicine, design and technology (e.g. Seeing Ourselves, Divining Fragments, Seeing as Believing, and Cancer: One Cell's Search for Immortality.
As a specialist physician with more than 30 years of medical practice in clinics in New Mexico, California, Hawaii, and New York, he now brings his accrued medical knowledge and experience to medical oversight positions in medical technology start ups and the entertainment industries of television, cinema, and publishing.
As a medical scientist, his interests center around issues of the sensate body and in the ways that the physical self experiences and knows the world through the senses; as a cultural worker, his interests lie in examining the dynamics of subcultures nesting within larger cultures. As an artist, he is most interested in creating text-based works, experimenting in all media. Dr. Baysa initiated the SENSEight Series: experiential workshops on the senses and perception with curated audiences.
A contributing writer for the online publication ArtSlant, and contributing writer, art editor and editor-at-large for the lifestyle and contemporary culture periodical, aRude, he has written for Art Asia Pacific, Flavorpill, Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, and is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto). His writing will appear in upcoming issues of TWELV magazine and Centerpoint Now, a globally distributed publication of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. Recently, he was invited as an international fashion journalist to Madrid Fashion Week.
KJ Baysa has curated shows for the London Biennale, LA International Biennial, Chinese Biennial, Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, The United Nations, and has organized and participated in art events throughout the US and in Paris, Cork, Trondheim, London, Bergen, Chiang Mai, Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Tuzla, Sarajevo, Beirut, Beijing, Bandung, Hong Kong, Manila, Santiago, Singapore, Cologne, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Leon, Mexico City, Lenzerheide, and Yokohama. Ex-officio board member of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University and current board member of the Art Omi International Artist Colony, he has presented lectures at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies in Virginia.
He is a consultant to and associate of The Daily Brand, a multi-disciplinary communications agency based in Los Angeles headed by Colin Mangham, a fellow founding member of MOCA China. In addition, he is the Advisory Board Chair of Collectrium (NY) and advisor to Noosphere (NY), Art and Med (LA), Medical Avatar (NY). He is an organizing committee member of MMVR/NextMed. The Curator Emeritus (2011) and Critic-in-Residence (2006) at Art Omi International Artist Colony in Ghent, New York, he received a 2007 Ford Foundation grant to lecture on contemporary curatorial practice at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam after concluding a survey of contemporary art in south and north Vietnam. In 2009, he conducted curatorial workshops at Zayed University campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and lectured at Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates.
Born and raised in Hawaii and completing his medical training at UCSF with a fellowship in allergy and clinical immunology, Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. He was an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. With a special interest in the role of the sense of smell in health and aesthetics, he conceptualizes projects with professional perfumers, is an advisor to A Lab on Fire, curates olfaction and gustation exhibitions, and collaborates in olfactory clinical research projects with scientists in Los Angeles and Berlin. He segued from a clinical practice in TriBeCa New York to focus on clinical research investigating olfactory stimuli and their potential beneficial effects on memory disorders.
A physician, curator, designer, writer, critic, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program - Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics, he specializes in designing and producing projects and events that mash-up and contextualize seemingly disparate subjects (e.g. "d'Afrique d'Asie" at Ethan Cohen Fine Art, "Red Beans and Rice" at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center) and explores the overlapping areas of contemporary creative practice, medicine, design and technology (e.g. Seeing Ourselves, Divining Fragments, Seeing as Believing, and Cancer: One Cell's Search for Immortality.
As a specialist physician with more than 30 years of medical practice in clinics in New Mexico, California, Hawaii, and New York, he now brings his accrued medical knowledge and experience to medical oversight positions in medical technology start ups and the entertainment industries of television, cinema, and publishing.
As a medical scientist, his interests center around issues of the sensate body and in the ways that the physical self experiences and knows the world through the senses; as a cultural worker, his interests lie in examining the dynamics of subcultures nesting within larger cultures. As an artist, he is most interested in creating text-based works, experimenting in all media. Dr. Baysa initiated the SENSEight Series: experiential workshops on the senses and perception with curated audiences.
A contributing writer for the online publication ArtSlant, and contributing writer, art editor and editor-at-large for the lifestyle and contemporary culture periodical, aRude, he has written for Art Asia Pacific, Flavorpill, Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, and is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto). His writing will appear in upcoming issues of TWELV magazine and Centerpoint Now, a globally distributed publication of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. Recently, he was invited as an international fashion journalist to Madrid Fashion Week.
KJ Baysa has curated shows for the London Biennale, LA International Biennial, Chinese Biennial, Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, The United Nations, and has organized and participated in art events throughout the US and in Paris, Cork, Trondheim, London, Bergen, Chiang Mai, Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Tuzla, Sarajevo, Beirut, Beijing, Bandung, Hong Kong, Manila, Santiago, Singapore, Cologne, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Leon, Mexico City, Lenzerheide, and Yokohama. Ex-officio board member of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University and current board member of the Art Omi International Artist Colony, he has presented lectures at the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies in Virginia.
He is a consultant to and associate of The Daily Brand, a multi-disciplinary communications agency based in Los Angeles headed by Colin Mangham, a fellow founding member of MOCA China. In addition, he is the Advisory Board Chair of Collectrium (NY) and advisor to Noosphere (NY), Art and Med (LA), Medical Avatar (NY). He is an organizing committee member of MMVR/NextMed. The Curator Emeritus (2011) and Critic-in-Residence (2006) at Art Omi International Artist Colony in Ghent, New York, he received a 2007 Ford Foundation grant to lecture on contemporary curatorial practice at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam after concluding a survey of contemporary art in south and north Vietnam. In 2009, he conducted curatorial workshops at Zayed University campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and lectured at Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates.
Born and raised in Hawaii and completing his medical training at UCSF with a fellowship in allergy and clinical immunology, Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. He was an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. With a special interest in the role of the sense of smell in health and aesthetics, he conceptualizes projects with professional perfumers, is an advisor to A Lab on Fire, curates olfaction and gustation exhibitions, and collaborates in olfactory clinical research projects with scientists in Los Angeles and Berlin. He segued from a clinical practice in TriBeCa New York to focus on clinical research investigating olfactory stimuli and their potential beneficial effects on memory disorders.