Koan Jeff Baysa on Clubhouse

Bio

💭 OG Curator IRL | Artropocene | ARTerroir
iBiennale | Joshua Treenial | Honolulu Biennial
🌊 Congo Biennale | Fresh Winds Biennale
Angeleno | Kama’aina | Pinoy | Physician

👀 Upcoming Project(s):
Co-curator - “Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology” (August 2021). Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Whitney Museum ISP - Curatorial Fellow
AICA - Association International Critics d’Art

Lectured at MoMA, The Phillips Collection, Whitney Museum, National Academy of Science, University of Hanoi, Sharjah University, Metropolitan Museum, Zayed University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and the United Nations

Born and raised on North Shore, Oahu, Hawai’i
Lived in New York, San Francisco, New Mexico
Proud Dad of seven, “Gramps” to four . . . and counting; expansive hanai ohana
2019 - Global circumnavigation
Vietnam Era Veteran - USN DT5 at NPS
🐐 Dairy goat farmer - Our goats’ milk became chèvre served at Chez Panisse

International Curatorial Advisor
🌍 Congo Biennale with Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo and Nicolas Basabose (2019; September 2021) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
🌎 Fresh Winds Biennale with Mireya Samper (2019; December 2021) - Iceland
🌏 Honolulu Biennial with Ngahiraka Mason - Hawai’i (2014, 2017, 2019)
🌎 iBiennale with Betty Martin (2019 - Honolulu); [2022 - Iceland; 2024 - Tasmania]
🌎 Joshua Treenial - Co-Founder with Bernard Leibov (2015, 2017, 2019), [2022]
🌏 Chinese Biennale with Li Shi and Pan Xing Lei (2008 - Beijing)

Physician - a life in service for patients and artists. Curing and curating have the same Latin root: “cura” = “to help”
🩺 UCSF - Allergy-Clinical Immunolgy Fellow
🩺 Chief Medical Officer - Medical Avatar with Founder Virgil Wong
🩺 medical missions - Beirut, Lebanon [5DM]; Tuzla, Bosnia [Edina S-]
🩺 grass roots health clinics for indigent, immigrant, and indigenous peoples - Hawai’i
🩺 [free and at cost medical consultations for artists without medical insurance - Manhattan]

🟩 Club: “Knowing the World”
An umbrella for diverse topics
🟩 Club: “Come To Your Senses”
Sensory terroir
♨️ www.come2yoursenses.tumblr.com
🟩 Club: “Curator Confidential”
Crosstalk

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