News - 2024

January - May | Teaching: Semester at Sea, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco, Portugal, Germany

TBA | Artist’s Publication: Olfactory Aesthetics, ESPES, The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics (guest editor: Dr. Madalina Diaconu)

News - 2023

October 28 | Performance: Odophonics, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles (with Sean Francis Conway)

October 16 - 22 | Teaching: Eureka Post-doctoral course in Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Sicily.

October 21 | Lecture: The Poetics of Olfactory Art, Osmocosm, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

***OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK*** | Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, edited by Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr, published by Routledge.

***ON SALE NOW*** July 7 | Artists’ Publication Launch: 5 Cocktails leporello risograph print, Utrecht, The Netherlands

July 2-7 | Teaching: Doing the Right Research Right, Utrecht University, Netherlands

June - December | Exhibition: Scents of Exile, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

News - 2022

***ON SALE NOW*** | Smell it! Smell in Art, edited by Saskia Benthack, et al, published by Wienand.

***ON SALE NOW*** | Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, edited by Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr, published by Routledge.

September 17 –December 31, 2022 | Scents of Movement, Scents of Place, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada (curator: Lindsey Sharman)

October 15 | Socially Engaged Artwork: By means of smoke, Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego

July 3- 9 | Socially Engaged Artwork: 5 Cocktails, Utrecht University, Netherlands

February 1 - 28 | Exhibition: OAK @ IAO, Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles

January | Award: Darlene Shiley Honors Faculty Fellowship, The Weber Honors College, San Diego State University

News - 2021

December 8 | Article: Work featured in Madalina Diaconu, “Being and Making the Olfactory Self. Lessons from Contemporary Artistic Practices,” in Olfaction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from Philosophy to Life Sciences, Di Stefano N., Russo M.T. (eds).

October 16 - 21 | Teaching: Eureka Post-doctoral course in Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Sicily. **POSTPONED**

September 23, 2021 | Article: Work featured in Charles Spence, “Musical Scents: On the Surprising Absence of Scented Musical/Auditory Events, Entertainments, and Experiences,” in i-Perception, Vol 12 (5), 2021

September 2 | Article: Work featured in Benjamin D. Young, “Review: Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

September | Essay: “The olfactory counter-monument: Active smelling and the politics of wonder in the contemporary museum,” in Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, ed. Debra Riley Parr and Gwenn-Aël Lynn, London: Routledge.

July 25 | Interview: I forgot I could smell, Montez Press Radio, New York, NY

July 10 | Interview: Brian Goeltzenleuchter in Conversation with Irena Kukrić and the Dynamic Archive, Smell It! Scent Summit, Bremen, Germany

July 2 | Interview: Barbara Herman, “Scents of Exile: Interview with Brian Goeltzenleuchter,” Eris Perfumes

June 3 | Interview: Meet a Nose, The Institute for Art and Olfaction, 6PM EST.

May 8 | Exhibition Catalog: Smell It! Geruch in der Kunst, Cologne: Wienand, 2021

May 9 | Roundtable: Olfactory Art and the Political, Uncommon Senses iii, Concordia University, Canada

May 8 - July 11 | Exhibition: Olfactor: Smell equals present, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany

November 1 | Album: Crossing the Steppe, 12” LP by Preston Swirnoff. Contains scented insert that I designed.

February 20 | Keynote Lecture, Demarginalizing Futures, The 5th Vienna Forum for Intercultural Philosophy

December 2020 - June 2021 | Exhibition: Scents of Exile, Olfactory Art Keller, New York, NY (project changes monthly)

News - 2020

December 3 | Exhibition: Scents of Exile, Olfactory Art Keller, New York, NY

September 1 | Lecture: I can’t breathe: Olfactory art in a post-COVID world, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany

July 12 - 17 | Workshop: Socially Engaged Art, Utrecht University, Netherlands **POSTPONED**

April 2020 | Book: Work featured in Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts, by Larry Shiner.

March 16 - 21 | Teaching: Eureka Post-doctoral course in Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Sicily. **POSTPONED**

March 13 - present day | Residency: Sheltering in Place, My House… :)

January | Book: Work featured in Kate McLean, “Sensory Maps,” in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Science, 2019

News - 2019

October 1 - November 30 | I’m thrilled to be artist-in-residence at Sculpture Space in New York.

July 19 - 21 | Cardinal will be showing some of my work-on-paper at Artscape Artist Books, Prints, Multiples & Editions Fair.

July 7 - 12 | Anna van Suchtelen and I will be team-teaching a course at Utrecht University this summer. It will culminate with a participatory artwork created in the Dutch countryside.

May 26 - June 2 | My work will be featured at the DuftBar exhibition, Solothurn, Switzerland. Claus Noppeney conceived of this exhibition as a way to stimulate public conversation about scent culture and literary culture. What better way to do it than to house it in the middle of a literature festival.

May 11 | Lecture “Creativity and Translation” at Clinical Science and Translational Institute, University of Miami.

April 7 - 13 | I’ll be lecturing and leading a participatory art workshop entitled When to throw a painting to a drowning man at Eureka Institute’s postdoc course in Siracusa, Italy.

March 9 | I’m happy to report the paper I co-authored with Kelly Brown, Gianfranco Grompone, and Anna van Suchtelen was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology. The manuscript, “The value of creativity for enhancing translational ecologies, insights, and discoveries” can be read online now, and will be collected and published in a special translational medicine edition of Frontiers in Medicine later this year.

January 19 - February 9 | My watercolor series Anthems and Ballads is on exhibition in Baltimore at Cardinal.