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Nina Leo is a Canadian cross-disciplinary artist. She has shown work in galleries and public institutions internationally, including Beyond/In Western New York Biennial (Buffalo), Kunsthaus Santa Fe (Mexico), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), The Lobby Gallery (Chicago), New Zero Arts Space (Yangon), Al Fanoun Gallery (Abu Dhabi), WhiteBox (NYC) and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council as well as the 2013 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award for Short Prose (USA). She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) and the Ventspils International Writers’ Residency (Latvia). Over the past eight years, her olfactory research has developed through associations with the Monell Chemical Senses Center (Philadelphia) and the Institute for Art and Olfaction (Los Angeles). She has presented and published her research in Canada, the United States, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates. She has worked collaboratively for several years with artist and poet, Moez Surani, and is an Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto.