02. 12.2023 | A Clearing, artist interview at the Institute of Art and Olfaction (video shot/ edited by Saskia Wilson-Brown)

02. 02.2023 | A Clearing, featured in Olfactory Art Keller’s February newsletter

01. 13.2023 | A Clearing, solo work featured at the Institute of Art and Olfaction, on view by appointment til February 11, 2023

12. 16.2022 | New commercial photo work: Moire campaign launch

12. 15.2022 | Artist Interview: featured on Upstatement

11. 27.2022 | Commissioned scent work: Experiential Dinner in Copenhagen, a collaboration with Tombo

Tonight's presentation conceived in intimate collaboration with Los Angeles based artist, Se Young Au, honors the ways in which we produce and translate knowledge through the senses.

The tille and conceptual frame of this presentation re/de/composition is inspired by the words of academic and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva, where she describes an essential labor for the precarious moment we find ourselves in that is "simultaneously disunifying, disfiguring and redesigning that which necessity sustains.

Chef Edgars sought to make meaning of da Silva's words through our menu tonight; a seasonal meditation on the interrelationship between decomposition and regeneration, acknowledging this time in the season where decay provides the essential minerals to fertilize our soil, thus laying the foundation for our blossoming and next harvest.

In the olfactory expression Se Young Au composed layers of scents that suggest: green, floral, and resinous with undertones of decay. She uses scent to transcend the limitations of the physical. Au’s practice aims to bridge worlds; holding space for variation and nuance and most importantly- slowness.

What rituals/associations do you make during the transition of time? How do you mark it?

Thank you for joining us in this pre-winter expression.

10. 04.2022 | New commercial photo work for Fly By Jing, Chili Crisp Vinaigrette campaign

09. 26. 2022 | EDITORIAL : third installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered around multi-sensory work for Varyer

09.10.2022 | Group Show: Sensoria, AHL Foundation

AHL Foundation, 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10030

Exhibition Dates: September 10 – October 1, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 3-6pm

Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6PM

New York, NY – AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting Korean contemporary art, is proud to announce the opening of its annual exhibition of Korean adopted artists, Sensoria. Curated by Katie Yook, the exhibition presents artworks by Se Young Au, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, and KimSu Theiler.

The exhibition aims to bring to the forefront a group of an estimated 200,000 children adopted fromKorea between the end of the Korean War until the mid 2000s who, despite geographical dispersal,maintain a strong global community. By bringing the artists’ narratives to the forefront, Sensoria looks to expand the notion of Korean identity and bring to light the sociohistorical underpinnings of adoption.

Sensoria refers to the complex set of stimuli that make up one’s perception of the world. Spanning video, sound, drawing and installation, the exhibition is themed around the artists’ use of non-visual senses, such as sound, scent, narrative and digital technologies to explore complex and abstract ideas of transnationality, memory, fluidity and community.

The artists share an impetus to understand one’s history and find meaning in connecting to oneself and each other. Common themes that arise from these explorations include journeys and healing. For example, Se Young Au conceives of an offering to children who did not have agency in their leaving of Korea and uses scent to explore grief held in the body. Similarly, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen uses sensory and ancient exercises to transform self harm, anxiety and sorrow into a healing space. Meanwhile, KimSu Theiler uses filmmaking and narrative to interrogate the epistemic foundations of how a person is defined as a member of a community.

08.06.2022 | Group Show: Dear Mother, LA Artcore

LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso St. Los Angeles, CA 90012

Aug 06, 6 PM - 8 PM — ends Aug 21, 2022

Dear Mother, creates a conversation between artists with diverse experiences of motherhood and politics of migration in relation to body autonomy in chosen, adopted and biological relationships. The works expose previously kept secrets, shifting the private to public, re-defining societal shame in both literal and abstracted form. The artists reimagine childhood and reclaim family history as sacred mythology, transmuting their lived experiences through pieces that act as containers for memory.

Including work by Jerri Allyn, Se Young Au, Chantal Barlow, Roxy Farhat, Luka Fisher, Chuck Hohng, Wednesday Kim, Lau Hochi, Julayne Lee, MATERNAL FANTASIES, David Noel, Norma Hernandez Peña, Nicole Rademacher, Pranay Reddy, Sheree Rose, Kayla Tange, Huidi Xiang, Kim Ye and Caroline Yoo.

Poetry Reading by Julayne Lee & Performance by Kim Ye: August 13th, 2022 6-8PM

05.22.2022 | Group Show: Radical Dawn presented by Luna Anaïs at D2 gallery

May 22, 1 PM - 8 PM — ends Jul 10, 2022 | Artist talk Sunday, June 12th at 5pm

1205 North La Brea Ave Inglewood CA 90302

Nomadic art gallery, Luna Anaïs is thrilled to present, RADICAL DAWN, curated by celebrated LA artist, Alicia Piller at D2 Art in Inglewood. "These last two years of the pandemic have felt like we have been slowly plowing through darkness; political shifts, racial violence, & daily turmoil saturating our environment," Piller writers. "The breaking dawn represents a tonality of light, an opening for rebirth/s of a new era, of new rituals, surroundings, moods." RADICAL DAWN celebrates the work of 10 mixed media artists: Anais Franco, Ginger Q, Jaklin Romine, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Kayla Tange, Linnea Spransy, Molly Shea, Sarah Stefana Smith, Se Young Au, & Silvi Naci.

04. 30. 2022 | EDITORIAL : series of photo illustrations published for Roundglass, a wellness start up

03. 18. 2022 | PRESS : “A Clearing” installation (ESMoA) featured in New York Times, Sunday Styles article “Can Scent Be Democratized?” by Betty Hallock

03. 12. 2022 | ARTIST TALK : El Segundo Museum of Art: The Living Library 2022: MIND invites visitors to connect with the 2022 guests of honor – the “LIVING BOOKS”  – through one-on-one 20-minute conversations. This is a unique opportunity to meet “LIVING BOOKS”, who stand out for seeing and identifying the needs in our community and provide care through their work for positive change.

03. 16. 2022 | EDITORIAL : second installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered around multi-sensory work for Varyer

02. 10. 2022 | COMMISSION : ongoing series of imagery for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles for First Friday event programs

01. 31. 2021 | INTERVIEW : Artist interview with ESMoA discussing multi-sensory installation “A Clearing”

12. 10. 2021 | EDITORIAL : photo work commissioned for Deem Journal, Issue 3: Envisioning Equity

12.06.2021 | EDITORIAL : first installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered around multi-sensory work for Varyer

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12.01.2021 | PRESS : mentioned as collaborator in Artsy Vanguard 2021 profile piece featuring Gabriella Sanchez written by Essence Harden

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11.04.2021 | Group Show: blue/s at the El Segundo Museum of Art

El Segundo, CA – ESMoA is pleased to announce its reopening on November 4, 2021 with curator Essence Harden’s Experience 49: BLUE/S, which will have a preview party on Saturday, October 30 from 5pm to 8pm PDT.

blue/s is a mood. It takes form as the trick that appears as abundance in both the sea and the sky and the scarcity in both flora and fauna. There are the sonic vibrations that traveled from west Africa to the deep south of the United States, those frequencies which evoke pain / desire / pleasure / purpose / resistance / terror. The bending of light, and the bending of time, and the heat, the hot new heat, which structured this universe. That blue/s that performs presences and evades capture is the offering here.

blue/s features the work of Turiya Adkins, Se Young Au, Kris Chau, June Edmonds, Meg Fransee, Maurice Harris, Micah James, Dane Johnson, Muna Malik, Ambrose Murray, Alicia Piller, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Gabriel Rivera, Jihaari Terry and Nathan Wong.

The works of blue/s are site-specific installation, sculpture, photography, painting, collage, and soundscapes. ESMoA’s unique architecture— narrow, high, and long—prompted the gravitational flow in the exhibition layout and the play with verticality. Akin to a river, which harbors a multitude of sensory elements, hues, and life, the art of blue/s is a morphological endeavor, pursuing relationships between space, mediums, and energy.