exhibits on art, body, the senses,
and medical practice
Koan Jeff Baysa, Curatorial
Studies Rubinstein Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program, New York, 1998-99
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
"Star
Maps"
Presenting Adam Nankervis, an Australian artist living in Berlin.
Absolut Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, Patricia
Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California, July 2001.
"But
Fear Itself"
The olfactory construct of fear.Group exhibition.Lance Fung Gallery,
New
York, June 2001.
"The Nature of Seeing"
Points of view of the natural world.Group exhibition.Cendrillon,
New York,
2000.
"Imaging
the Wunderboard"
Images and issues of representation.Group exhibition.Centre for
Freudian
Analysis and Representation, London Biennale 2000, UK.
"Linea Nigra"
Contemporary markmaking.Group exhibition.star67, Williamsburg/
Brooklyn,
New York, 1999.
"Zero-G: When Gravity
Becomes Form"
Manifestations of gravity in contemporary art.Group exhibition.
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut,
1999.
"At Home and Abroad: 20
Contemporary Filipino Artists"
Traveling group exhibition.The Filipino diaspora in art.Asian
Art Museum,
San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; University of
Hawaii Art
Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, 1998-99.
"Umbra/Penumbra: The Alter-body"
The body imaged in shadow, reflection, and metaphor.Group exhibition
of
photographs for the Image Foundation.Academy Art Center, Honolulu
Academy
of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997
"Naked Truths"
Large-scale paintings of the human form.Group exhibition.
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1996.
"Cargo Cult"
Contemporary commodity fetishism.Group exhibition.FLUX.Honolulu,
Hawaii,
1995.
"Reframing a Heritage"
University of Hawaii Conference on Filipino Identity.Group exhibition.
University of Hawaii Commons Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1994.
"Kayumanggi Presence '93:
Diversity and Emergence"
First International Contemporary Filipino Art Exhibition.Group
exhibition.
Academy Art Center, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii,
1993.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
"Interstice"
Presenting Kaori Ukaji, graphite works on paper.The Scene Gallery,
New
York, September 2001.
"Homophone"
Presenting Aaron Sheppard.Video, photography, installation, and
performance.The Scene Gallery, New York, October, 2001.
"Worlds Within Worlds"
Visual contradictions in digital photography .Group exhibition.Rincon
Center, San Francisco, October 2001; Blue Heron Art Center, New
York,
November 2001.
"Colaboratory"
Numerous curators select multiple artists for a large exquisite
corpse-like
project involving all media. Installing the show will be subject
to the same
game. Gale Gates, DUMBO, NY, November 2001.
"Dermatome"
Invisible
mapping of the human skin.Group exhibition.
Cherry de los Reyes, Los Angeles, January 2002.
"Ondine's Curse"
An inventory of the breath.Group exhibition.White Box, New York,
February
2002.
"FLASH!"
This exhibition addresses light as sensation, spanning the light
spectrum of
the visible and invisible, manifestations in radiance and shadow,
medical
imaging, and evoking sentiments of finitude and the infinite.
The title,
FLASH!, references the literal and metaphorical roles of light
in
illumination and enlightenment, as well as the term's use in pop
and
internet cultures. April 11
through June 18, 2002.Origins of light.Group exhibition.
Corning Gallery, New York, April 2002.
"Long Nguyen"
Mid-career review of the
works of this California painter and sculptor.
Asian American Art Center, New York, Summer 2002.
PENDING EXHIBITIONS
"Disappearance"
Manifestations of vanishing.Group exhibition proposal for Art
in General,
New York.
"Thicker Than Water"
Issues and images of blood in contemporary art.Group exhibition
proposal
for the Aldrich Museum and Palm Beach ICA.
"One Hand Clapping"
Sound art.Group exhibition proposal for SmackMellon, New York.
"Becoming Forms"
Structures against Gravity.Architecture group exhibition proposal
for INMO
Gallery, Los Angeles.
"In the Gloaming"
Light sculptures in the twilight landscape.Sculpture group exhibition
proposal for ArtOMI Sculpture Garden, Ghent, New York.
EXHIBITIONS IN DEVELOPMENT
"A Burdensome Beauty"
The contemporary sublime and Stendhal Syndrome.
"One Standard Deviation"
Art without evidence of the artist's hand.
"Visual Disturbances"
Art for the visually impaired.
"Triangulation"
Proprioception, the body in space.
"Present Tense, Past Imperfect"
Disorders of memory.
"Consumption"
Scrofula, bubos, and kings: a history of tuberculosis in art.
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