Karola Braga (b. 1988, São Caetano do Sul, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist and olfactory researcher whose practice explores the sensory, political, and mnemonic potential of scent. She holds a Master's degree in Visual Poetics from the University of São Paulo (ECA/USP) and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP).
Scent is central to Braga’s work — not merely as medium, but as language. Through fragrances imbued with symbolic and cultural resonance, her installations activate memory, stir emotion, and construct narratives that transcend the visual. Her research weaves together art, chemistry, anthropology, and sensory studies, often engaging with impermanence, absence, and collective remembrance.
Since 2015, Braga’s work has been presented in exhibitions and residencies across Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2017) and at the Kooshk Residency in Tehran, where she received the Kooshk Artist Residency Award (KARA 2018). Her work has been recognized with nominations for the 2020 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program (Miami) and the 2019 Bloom Art Prize Weihenstephaner (Cologne). In 2025, she was a finalist for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent at the 9th Art and Olfaction Awards in Los Angeles.