Koan-Jeff Baysa

Koan-Jeff Baysa is an independent curator, writer, practicing specialist physician, and alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Curatorial Studies. His writing appears in gallery and museum catalogues, art periodicals, website journals, and medical-science publications. Lecture venues include Montclair State University, Independent Studio and Curatorial Program, Parsons Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design New York Studio Program and ArtOMI; he has been a panelist in conferences on art by Asians and Asian-Americans at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The Asian American Art Centre, University of Hawaii, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at NYU, and the Zimmerli Museum in New Jersey; he has participated in graduate architecture critiques at Pratt Institute and Columbia University. With Dana Friis Hansen, he co-curated the exhibition, "At Home and Abroad," that traveled to San Francisco, Hawaii, Houston, and Manila. Recent curatorial projects include "Lysis" at Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York (October 2002), "Per Ora: Consuming Desire" for Visual AIDS (October 2002), "Freshen" at WSG, San Francisco (August 2002), "The Brewster Project" (July 2002), "The Boxer, The Missionary, and Their Gods" at POST, Los Angeles (April 2002), "Oxygen" at White Box, NY (February 2002), "!!!!" at The Scene Gallery, NY (February 2002), and "Dermatome" at cherrydelosreyes, LA (January 2002). Upcoming programming includes "Digital America" for Olympus Camera in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago (November 2002), "One Hand Clapping" at SmackMellon New York (November 2002), "Ecco Vanitas" an ASCI project with gallerythe, Brooklyn (November 2002), "Nervous Disturbances" at Stefan Stux, New York (November 2002), "FAKE!" at POST, Los Angeles (November 2002), and "Artsthma: Art Against Asthma" at the Bronx River Center and Gallery, New York (November 2002). Planned collaborative projects include "Disappearance" co-curated with Olu Oguibe, "Thicker Than Water" co curated with Dominique Nahas, "Red Beans and Rice: Asian Artists in the American New South" co curated with Craig Bunting, and "Incidental Reflections," co-curated with Denise Carvalho. Dr. Baysa is on the boards of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, Art-Science Collaborations Inc., ArtOMI, Cross Path Culture, and artbrain.org.