KJ Baysa is an independent contemporary art  curator, designer, producer, writer, critic, physician,  Whitney Museum  Independent Study Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, and a member of AICA, the association of international art critics.. He has curated shows for the Whitney Museum, Canon Corporation, and the United Nations, among other venues internationally. Dr. Baysa divides his time between New York and Los Angeles, and has a special interest in the role of the olfactory sense in health and aesthetics, collaborating in clinical research with scientists in Los Angeles and Berlin on the links between olfaction and memory disorders.

Cranial Nerve I - Olfactory

Credit – a parfum by Christophe Laudamiel, with Koan Jeff Baysa and Ike Ude. To launch with the Spring 09 issue of aRude magazine during Fashion Week in New York.

For aRude magazine's issue on fragrance, interviews with Toshiko Mori, former Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Herzog & de Meuron, Priztker Prize Winners 2001, and Nobi Shioya, independent fragrance designer

/S/ (Seven Deadly Sins) at Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Ohio. An installation of fragrances, each inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins and designed by notable fragrance artists. 

 Medical Sciences & The Arts

7 March 2008 

4 February 2007 

"Science Friction-1: The Hottest Scientists in the Art World" at the Penthouse of the Roger Smith Hotel. Discussion of materials in the arts. Doug Fitch (food), Adam Zaretsky (live tissue), Michael Rees (systems), W. Brad Paley (data).  ScienceFrictionArtistsStatements.pdf

 19 January 2006

 "Metabodies: Medicine and Media" at the Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina. Virgil Wong and Jeff Wyckoff. 19 January 2006.    metabodieswebsite.pdf

2003

Divining Fragments: Reconciling the Body" at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2003. The use of medical imaging technologies in contemporary visual art.

8 February - 9 March 2002

OXYGEN at White Box, Chelsea, NY. Gordon Matta-Clark, Marina Abramovic, Ann Hamilton, Oscar Munoz, Wendy Jacob, Montien Boonma, David Shaw, Pak Keung Wan, Roland Flexner, Sarah Lovitt, Rey Akdogan.