08.28.2025 | EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH: Join us with GYOPO @ Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles from 3-4:30

07.26.2025 | Errare Studio featured on CURATE LA, MUST-SEE ART

07.24.2025 | NEW EXHIBITION: Errare Studio at RIP Space, Los Angeles

07.20.2025 | INTERVIEW: View Points on Dublab

I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation on behalf of Gyopo between two artists, Jin Meyerson and Teebs that will be streaming live on Dublab this morning at 10am PST.

The interview, on 𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔 is titled 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔, 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒅𝒐 features a new track by Mtendere, 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔, which he composed in collaboration with Jin’s solo show, 𝑺𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 now on view @perrotin here in Los Angeles through Aug 29th.

In our conversation, we discuss both of their practices through the lens of the ‘third space,’ a concept first articulated by the scholar Homi Bhabha. The third space isn’t just about being between cultures. It’s a creative zone where new meanings and identities emerge. That idea specifically resonates when we talk about diasporic experiences like adoption, being mixed race, or growing up between different places and ways of seeing the world.

05.31.2025 | NEW EXHIBITION: Aromatic Mythologies at Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles

05.22.2025 | GRANT RECIPIENT: Emergency Fund Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts

05.20.2025 | NEW EXHIBITION: (Un)natural Conflunces at UC Irvine

11.20.2024 | ARTIST TALK: University of California at Irvine, 3pm at Social and Behavorial Science Gateway

Very honored to be invited by Professor Eleana Kim whose research has been seminal for my pratice, to speak at UCI about art and olfaction. Come join us!

07.02.2024 | EDITORIAL: MOLD MAGAZINE: ISSUE 06: Design for a New Earth

Honored to have co-authored a piece, Planetary Somatics, A MANIFESTO, with dear friend and collaborator, Alice Grandoit-Šutka featured in the last published issue of Mold Magazine.

05.03.2024 | NEW EXHIBITION: WalgadaKan Good, Ssalon | Los Angeles / Seoul

04.30.2024 | Published Work: Alabastron Vol. 1, The Scent of Identity Olfaction’s Role in Culture, Community, and the Formation of Self

Alabastron is co-edited by Nuri McBride and Saskia Wilson-Brown

In Volume 1 of Alabastron, 18 authors explore olfaction’s role in culture, community, and the formation of self. a journal exploring scent’s role in society and culture. Bridging the gap between academia and the public,  Alabastron explores aromatic history and culture. Our aim is to create diverse and accessible learning environments in which to discuss how olfaction, Scent Culture, and aromatic trades shape the human experience.

Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have sought to control their sensory environment and express their values aromatically. They have augmented their olfactive habitat and realities for diverse reasons: cultural, religious, sociological, psychological, personal, commercial,  and political, to name a few. Their motivations for doing so emerge from a complex web of personal, communal, and sensorial stimuli that reveal elements of universal human experiences.

04.17.2024 | PUBLISHED WORK: Foundwork Dialogues: Clifford Prince King interviewed by Se Young Au

04.09.2024 | ARTIST INTERVIEW: Se Young Au x Hyungi Park for Varyer

03.19.2024 | Se Young Au x Varyer | Moon Incense launch: Created by olfactory artist and Transmissions author, Se Young Au, 문 (Moon) was created as a transportive scent; a portal or door to clear pathways for creative reflection and renewal. Handcrafted by Hyungi Park from natural ingredients inspired by environment and function.

02.29.2024 | Errare Studio: Frieze x Living Divani x Luminaire

Errare Studio joins a roster of featured designers and artists to reimagine a custom cover for Living Divani’s iconic Extra Soft Sectional. We created ours by hand-painting the canvas, with the addition of silkscreen paints and a digitally transferred rose collage. Our multi-sensory piece utilizes rocks to deploy a vetiver scent, which we suspended in sheer iridescent organza pockets.

01. 22.2024 | ARTIST INTERVIEW: featured on Canvas Rebel

01. 15.2024 | NEW EDITORIAL : The Ways in Which to Reach You: 5th installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered on multi-sensory work for Varyer

01. 13.2024 | Interview with Don Mee Choi by Roger Kim + Se Young Au, on behalf of GYOPO

10. 28.2023 | Errare Studio Launch: Sensory Spatial Design with creative partner, Kaitlyn Darby

Errare is a multi-disciplinary studio focused on sensory spatial design. We are interested in creating emotional connection through the rendering of space, treatment of materials, and construction of form.

We utilize object making, digital components, sensory cues, and ephemera to create multi-dimensional spaces and experiences. These responsive environments create dialogue between humanness, technology, and the natural world.

Our ethos is shaped by quantifying time and space through the use of both the earthy and abstract. We assign value to slowness, the intangible, and finding ways to extend the breadth within.

12. 15.2023 | ARTIST INTERVIEW: featured on Noodle, a long-form interview style featuring Asian Americans and their creative practices by Kenneth Ng

05. 10-11.2023 | Artist Guest Lecturer at Cornell University: Biophobia Symposium presented by East Asian Studies Program

03. 26. 2023 | NEW EDITORIAL : Scenting the Universe: 4th installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered on multi-sensory work for Varyer

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. Olfactory Keller is a gallery dedicated to showing all scent-based work located in Chinatown in New York City.

01. 13.2023 | NEW EXHIBITION: 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 | NEW EDITORIAL : Shapes of Perception, 3rd installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered on multi-sensory work for Varyer

09.10.2022 | NEW EXHIBITION: Sensoria, at AHL Foundation, NYC

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 | NEW EXHIBITION: 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 | NEW EXHIBITION: Radical Dawn presented by Luna Anaïs at D2 gallery, Los Angeles

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 : Seeds of Transference, 2nd installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered on 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 | ARTIST 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 : 1st installment of quarterly engagement, Transmissions, centered around multi-sensory work for Varyer

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 | NEW EXHIBITION: 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.