Brian Goeltzenleuchter is an American conceptual artist and educator who works in

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, and image making''.''

Early life and education

Goeltzenleuchter was born in

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. In 2001 he received a

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from the

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where he studied under

David Antin David Abraham Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor. Education and early career Antin was born in New York City in 1932. After graduating from Brooklyn Techni ...

and

Allan Kaprow Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist . He helped to develop the " Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. ...

Art

Goeltzenleuchter's work has been exhibited at multiple locations such as The Institute for Art and Olfaction, The Walters Art Museum, The Banff Centre, Städtische Galerie Bremen, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In his artwork Goeltzenleuchter tries to "explore the dynamics between individuals and the cities and institutions which shape those relationships" through attempts to interpret public places such as crowded cities like

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Awards

* Creative Catalyst Award (2014, won for the Olfactory Memoirs workshops) * Park Social (2021, won for The Olfactory Present: By Means of Smoke)

Creative works

Art

* ''Sillage'' ** 2014,

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** 2016,

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, Baltimore, MD * ''Volatile!'' ** 2016,

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, Chicago, IL *Odophonics **2016, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA *Scents of Exile **2021, Olfactory Art Keller Gallery, New York, NY **2021, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Germany **2022,

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, Canada

Literature

* "Scenting the Antiseptic Institution", in ''Designing with Smell'', (2017, London: Routledge, ed. Victoria Henshaw) *“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'', (2021, London: Routledge, eds. Gwenn-Aël Lynn and Debra Riley Parr)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goeltzenleuchter, Brian 1976 births Artists from San Diego Olfactory art Living people