My History
Place of Birth
Toronto Canada
Current Position
Professor emeritus, Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University
Adjunct Professor, Drawing and Painting, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art Training
Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (with William Weimann)
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (with Paul Stopforth)
En Plein Air Painting on Monhegan Island (with J.R. Baldin)
Open Studio Figure Drawing (from 1986 to 2019)
Works purchased for public collections
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Tufts Center for European Studies, Talloires France
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston MA
Harvard Society of Fellows, Cambridge MA
Art Residencies
Artist Scholar in residence, Tufts Center for European Studies, Talloires, France 2015
Manship Art Residency, Gloucester MA 2020, 2022
Publications and Talks
Art-Science Talks
Keynote address at SAGacia25, Sapienza University, Rome IT. Jay, D.G., La Necessità di un Nuovo Linguaggio nella Scienza | (The Need for a New Language in Science) in SAGacia25:Arte e Scienza L’impatto ambientale dell’estrazione delle risorse strategiche.
DASER Panel addressing Art and Science, National Academy of Science sponsored by Flourishing Salon. Other invited speakers: Susan Magsamen, Linda Demuth, and Jennifer Wiseman. Dec 2024.
NC ENFOLD meeting organized with Mark Olson to address the benefits of a North Carolina physical space for SciArt. Dec 2024
Aspen Institute Science and Society Program, Invited Roundtable Speaker on meaningful science and arts intersection, Jul 2024. Report published Dec 2024.
Sci-Art and me, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, Aug 24
Jury Art & Science, Breakthrough of the Year, Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin, July 2024
UNESCO Light Festival, CALI, SciArt and Coulomb’s Fountain, May 2024
Transformative Possibilities When Art and Science Collaborate, Rita Allen Foundation Panel, Apr 2024
ARCHEMY at the interface between art and science: Talks given at: University of Wisconsin-Madison Apr 2023, UCLA May 2023, Biotopia, Munich Germany, Oct 2023, University of Glasgow, Nov 2023 NY LASER talk New York NY, Jan 2024
Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art, Nature Careers Podcast, Dec 2023
ENFOLD Sci-Art, Burroughs Wellcome Fund organized a symposium to address the value and sustainability of an Art-Science Institute for transformative creativity (with Suzanne Barbour, Corinne Okada Takara, and Callie Rodgers Chappell). (https://enfoldsciart.com/) Sep 2023
Harvard Freshman Seminar on Art and Optics (one lecture each year with Aravi Samuel, 2020-23
What matters to me and Why: Daniel Jay on Inspiring where art and science meet, Tufts Alumni Talk: Nov 2022
Neuroscience and Art, DESMA 9, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, May 2022
ARCHEMY at the Interface between Art and Science, Harvard Club of the UK, London UK, May 2021
Convergence of Art and Science, GMGI, Gloucester MA Feb 2020
Cancer, Art and Science, Sai University Chennai, India: Sep 2020
2019-present directed SMFA course on How the Brain Perceives Art (DRW 0191)
Art Science Conversations, Dodd School of Art University of Georgia May 2018
Tufts Travel and Learn Talks on Art-Science in Amsterdam, Vienna, Delos, Cairo, Hanoi, Havana, Bilbao, Istanbul 2018-present.
Lecture “ARCHEMY: Chemical drawings inspired by Claude-Louis Berthollet, a son of Talloires, Tufts Center for European Studies, Talloires France, Jun 2015
Lecture: “Archemy: At the Interface between art and science” Bioscope, Universite de Geneve, Geneva Switzerland, Jun 2015
Lecture: Combining Art and Science, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR, Mar 2015
Lecture: “Iron and Magnetic field art” at Boston Arts Academy, Boston MA, Dec 2014
Lecture: ARCHEMY: at the Interface Between Art and Science The Cooper Union, New York NY, Nov 12 2014
Keynote talk: “Bridging Disciplines and the importance of networking: an example combining art and science” Gordon Research Conference, Aug 2014
“Scientists who make Art” “Catalyst Conversations at The Broad with Wally Gilbert, Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, Apr 2014
Selected Workshops
ARCHEMY GUNPOWDER Boston Public Library, South End Branch, Boston MA Feb 2020, Gloucester Art Teachers
Art and Neuroscience, Josiah Quincy Upper School, Boston MA Aug 2018
ARCHEMY GUNPOWDER, Josiah Quincy Upper School, Boston MA Aug 2017
ARCHEMY: Chromatographics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA, Aug 2016
“Fifty Shades of Grape”, “Chemistry of Combustion”, “Why is Iron Magnetic”, Boston Arts Academy, Boston MA 2015-18
Microbiome Art, Université de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 2015
Publications
Jay, D.G. Celebrating the Quantum: a commentary celebrating the UNESCO Year of the Quantum showing Schrödinger’s Cat #3, Archives of Issues in Science and Policy, Summer 2025
Sullivan M. (illustrated by D.G. Jay) Clarissa’s Disappointment: For children of incarcerated parents, and their teachers, families and counselors, Twelve Winters Press, Boston MA 2017 (Underwood Prize winner, 2016)
2015 Nov/Dec Jay, DG. “ARCHEMY at the interface between art and science” IEEE POTENTIALS
2015 Tannous, C. “On Art, Resonance and Resilience” IMPACT Vol 4 no. 2 Summer
2014 “Supercool Art: Drawing with liquid nitrogen in Provincetown.” Impact, Boston University Press. Seminars Proctor Academy, Andover NH
“NEW MURALS ARE FIRST STEP TOWARD CREATING A BOSTON PUBLIC ART CORRIDOR”
2014 C. Tannous “Merging Art, Science“, BU News Service
