21 Facts About Neri Oxman

Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli designer and former professor known for art that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.

Neri Oxman coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.

Neri Oxman has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections.

Neri Oxman was born in Haifa, Israel, the daughter of architecture professors Robert and Rivka Oxman.

Neri Oxman grew up in Israel, spending time in her parents' architecture studio and at her grandmother's house.

Neri Oxman began her architectural studies at Technion Israel Institute of Technology and finished her degree at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 2004.

In 2006, Neri Oxman began an interdisciplinary research project at MIT called material ecology, to experiment with generative design.

Neri Oxman became a professor at MIT in 2010, and was given her own lab, the Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab.

Neri Oxman has published collaborations in biology, medicine, wearables, and the design of fabrication tools.

Neri Oxman's work has been mentioned as an inspiration for changing how materials and structures are designed.

Neri Oxman's work has been included in the permanent collections of museums such as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Smithsonian, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Science.

Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter research group uses computational design, digital fabrication, 3D printing, materials science and synthetic biology for large and small structures.

In 2012, Neri Oxman printed a set of body-sized wearables, Imaginary Beings, inspired by legendary creatures.

Neri Oxman collaborated with van Herpen and materials scientist W Craig Carter on Anthozoa, a cape and skirt evocative of marine life.

Neri Oxman developed Lazarus, a project designed to capture the wearer's last breath, and began work on Vespers, a collection of 15 death masks.

In 2019, an MIT report revealed that Neri Oxman's lab had received $125,000 from Jeffrey Epstein, part of a series of donations he made to the Media Lab and its director Joi Ito.

Neri Oxman asked people in her lab to prepare and send a gift to Epstein, according to documents shared by an MIT employee.

Shortly after, journalists at Business Insider published articles alleging Neri Oxman plagiarized from a range of sources, including from Wikipedia, in her 2010 PhD dissertation and three journal articles.

In 2016, Neri Oxman worked with Bjork to create a mask based on the singer's face, and worked with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen to 3D-print a collection of wearable couture.

Neri Oxman is a senior fellow in the Design Futures Council, and a Royal Designer for Industry in the UK.

Neri Oxman has won the Vilcek Prize in Design, a National Design Award, and a SFMOMA Contemporary Vision Award.