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2026:
May 16-17 Upstate Art Weekend
March 8- April 11, Every Woman Biennial 2026: Spectalia, Pen and Brush Gallery, 29 E 22nd St., NYC
March 13- May 3, A Medicinal Flora and Fungi Exhibit, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
Perfumes now offered at Fou Gallery NYC! (Water Nymph, Phantom Rose, Black Trumpet Chthonic)
Thur Feb. 5, at 6-8:30 pm The Art of Botanical Perfume at Anima Mundi/ Alchemist's Kitchen Soho - sold out
2025:
Sat - Sun Nov. 29-30 The 5th Annual Holiday Makers Market at THE CHURCH Sag Harbor
Fri Dec 5- Longhouse Illuminated Holiday Market
Sat Dec. 6- Oddities Flea Market, NYC
Nov. 18- The Art of Botanical Perfume class at Anima Mundi Brooklyn -sold out
May 30- June 1, 2025 - Scent Fair LA - at Craft Contemporary, organized with the Institute of Art and Olfaction
April 19 - May 25, Artist-in-Residence Exhibit at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild,Opening reception Saturday, April 19, 2025, 4-6 PM. Showing: Arachne (Spiderweb after Rain) archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Pearl, 11x17 in.
Arachne perfume, notes including Ginger Lily, Saffron, Oak Leaves, Clover, Iris Root, Sweet Flag Root.
Sat March 9, 2025 - Pioneerworks Second Sundays Open Studios ~ featuring mushroom-note perfumes
Oct 5 NYC FUNGUS FEST 2025, organized by NY Mycologocal Society at Randall's Island - perfumes and a mushroom scent workshop
2024
New perfume: BLACK TRUMPET CHTHONIC!
October 5- December 5, 2024 ~ part of group show 'Matriarch' curated by Erin Perrazzelli. 59-74 Fresh Pond Road, Maspeth Queens. Opening reception October 5th, 3pm to late.
September 28, 2024: Byrdcliffe Artist Residency Open Studios!
September Artist in Residence, Byrdcliffe Artist Colony.
September 14-15th, 2024: NY Botanical Garden, 11am-4pm. Magic Mushroom Weekend, featuring our perfumes with mushroom notes! Press release
July 2024, Plantings Journal of World Sensorium. 'Irina Adam’s Pitch Pine Pollen, A Transforming Forest' by David Strunk
'PITCH PINE POLLEN: A TRANSFORMING FOREST' an exhibit of photography and scent art at OLFACTORY ART KELLER
May 9- 25, 2024. Opening reception: Thursday May 9th at 6-8pm
Artist talk: Friday May 17th at 6pm. Gallery hours: Thu-Sat 12-6pm. 25A Henry Street, NYC 10002
Featuring deconstructed perfume Pitch Pine Pollen
Also featuring: Forest Freaks! A tree candy collaboration with Eugene J Candy Co.
2023
- September's 'Myco Artist of the Month' at New York Mycological Society!
- Thanks for your support with the Sept - Oct fundraiser for the Institute of Animal Happiness - a nonprofit animal rescue & vegan organization with a focus on birds!
- Perfumer for the 'Dead Hot: Season of the Witch' film premiere
2022
- 'Scentless Apprentice: Kurt Cobain at MTV Unplugged'
is part of the "Portraits in Scent" group show at Olfactory Art Keller, September 8- October 29, 2022
Artist talk + multisensory screening of the show: October 29th,2022 at 4-6 pm
- Phoenix perfumes now at Zakka Bakka Shop, 1709 N Kenmore Ave, Los Angeles
- Floral Freaks! A flower candy collaboration with Eugene J Candy Co.
- 'Foodgasm on 14th Street' is on exhibition in Los Angeles. Part of the scent art show 'Olfactory Art Keller at the Institute of Art & Olfaction. Feb 1-28, 2022. Opening reception Feb. 19, 6-9 pm
- New York/ New Fumes Olfactory Art Keller, December 16, 2021- January 22, 2022. Opening reception 12/16 at 4-8pm.
2011-2021
- Venefica Magazine volume 3: 'From The Mugwort Field' writing + photography feature
- Phoenix Botanicals perfumes at the Vice/ Broadly Astrology Conference
- Finalist - Artisan Category - 2017- Art & Olfaction Awards - Vanilla & The Sea - Natural Perfume
- Finalist - Artisan Category - 2016- Art & Olfaction Awards - Peach Tree Garden - Natural Perfume
- AIX Artisan Independent Experimental Scent Fair, Hammer Museum Los Angeles
-Perfume: 'Witch's Feast' a collaboration with Melissa Jayne Madara, author of the 'The Witch's Feast: A New Kitchen Grimoire'
- Perfume: PHANTOM ROSE, a noir androgynous floriental, a scented portal to 1920's Berlin cabaret, created in collaboration with artist Gretchen Heinel
- Perfume + music collaboration Ylang Lianas, a tropical woody floral thru nocturnal rains. Music by Fredo Viola
- Cafleurebon Profiles in American Perfumery- Irina Adam
- 'Ella' ~ a perfume created with vintage materials shared by artist Anne Arden McDonald
- ‘Scented Meanderings, Forest Wanderings’ writing feature in Plant Healer Magazine
- Phoenix Botanicals perfumes x Vogue France pop-up 2011-3 at Colette, Paris
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