[4] In January 2014, the IAO launched its first large-scale public arts project with 'A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes, Revisited'[5] at the Hammer Museum.
It has since collaborated with Miles Regis, Zoe Crosher, Andrew Berardini, Austin Young, Marcos Lutyens, Victor Wilde (Bohemian Society), Bettina Hubby, dublab, Jo Burzynska, Cat Jones, Aleesa Cohene, Snowblink, Erik Benjamins, Maxwell Williams, The Institute for New Feeling, Hilda Kozarii, Mateo Tannat / Public Fiction, Seth Bogart, Regina Mamou and Lara Salmon at Research for the Bermuda Triangle, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulous, and many more artists, writers and musicians.
Subsequent award events were held at Goethe Institute Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin, the Tabernacle in London, and Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
Part of The Institute for Art and Olfaction's mission is to create access to perfume education and materials, in line with Saskia Wilson-Brown's belief that perfumery is "inaccurately seen as elite.
"[23] The IAO has hosted talks and events by guest speakers including game designer Simon Niedenthal, scent culture scholar artist Claus Noppeney [de], Gayil Nalls and USC professor James McHugh, and has presented workshops, classes or otherwise collaborated with The Getty Center, The Getty Villa, The Wallace Collection (UK), Otis College of Art and Design, Henry Art Gallery, The Natural History Museum Los Angeles, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Huntington Library and Gardens, Scent Culture Institute, amongst others.