Kóan Jeff Baysa

 is a curator, writer, critic, physician, and Whitney Independent Study Program Curatorial alumnus. A contributing writer for New York Arts Magazine and the online publications Flavorpill and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, he has written for Art Asia Pacific, is the Pacific editor for d'Art International (Toronto), contributing writer and editor for contemporary culture periodicals, a RUde and The Royal, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics. He has curated shows for the London Biennale, LA International Biennial, Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, The United Nations, and has organized art events in Paris, Cork, London, Beijing, Bandung, Hong Kong, Manila, and Yokohama. He is on the boards of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University, Art Omi International Artist Colony, the Asian American Art Centre, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. He is also the Head of the New York Curatorial Office and the Director-Curator of International Projects for MOCA China, an art foundation that supports a proposed network of contemporary museums in China. With experience in organizing benefit events in the not-for-profit sector, he is the contemporary art curator-critic and medical consultant for The Daily Brand, a multi-disciplinary communications agency based in Los Angeles. The critic-in residence for the 2006 Art Omi International Artists Colony in Ghent, New York, he received a Ford Foundation grant to lecture on contemporary curatorial practice at the Hanoi University of Culture in Vietnam and conducted a survey of contemporary art in south and north Vietnam. Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles, and has a consultative clinical practice in lower Manhattan, specializing in allergy and clinical immunology, with special interest in the role of the olfactory sense in health and aesthetics.