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Gayil Nalls

Gayil Nalls is an interdisciplinary artist, theorist, writer, curator, filmmaker, and academic who works in the arenas of professional art practice, science, and academia. Nalls is widely known as a pioneer of olfactory art. She broadened the definitions of sculpture and public art when her world social olfactory sculpture World Sensorium, premiered at New York’s Times Square 2000 celebration.  World Sensorium was endorsed by UNESCO as a project of peace and goodwill, and was also featured in Washington, D.C.’s Millennium Around the World gala and the Vatican’s Millennium Jubilee in Rome, Italy. The World Sensorium Web site (www.worldsensorium) is referenced by thousands of Websites. Her art can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The National Museum of American Art and numerous other public and private collections. Nalls has taught at Parsons School of Design and at the New York Institute of Technology and has served as Visiting Artist Professor at many institutions including The Institut Superieur International Du Parfum at the University of Versailles in France. She is an Associate Research Fellow with The SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, University of East London, where she is finishing her Ph.D. dissertation. She is also an artist member of the Institute of Neuroesthetics in the UK.

www.worldsensorium.com.