EDUCATION

DPhil, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Fine Art, No Corrections, 2022

Thesis: ‘Form Unfollows Function: Subversions of Functionality’

Supervisors: Jason Gaiger and Daria Martin

MFA, Goldsmiths, University of London, Fine Art, Distinction, 2012

Dissertation: ‘The Poetics of Function: Reason and Absurdity in the Avant-Garde’

BDes, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Product Design, First Class Honours, 2010

Dissertation: ‘Joseph Beuys: Myth and Reality’.

EMPLOYMENT

Tutor, Stanford University, 2016-2022

Designed and taught the undergraduate modules ‘Developing and Professionalising the Art Practice’ and ‘The Nexus

Between Art and Technology’.

Tutor, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2017-2022

Taught undergraduate and graduate students in individual tutorials, group crits, and the history & theory seminars ‘Artists Writing’ (BFA) and ‘Research Methodologies’ (MFA).

Junior Teaching Fellow, Ashmolean Museum, 2020

Designed and led the cross-disciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate symposium ‘The Design Constraint: How It Works and Can It Be Productive for Art?’

Research Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2019-2020

Undertook a research project titled ‘Investigating the Functionality of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine’ at the Museum’s Research & Scholars Center.

Dissertation Supervisor, Sarah Lawrence College, 2019-2020

Supervised the undergraduate dissertation ‘From Cave to Shed: Challenging Gendered Binaries in Spatial Design’.

Tutor, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 2018

Designed and taught the undergraduate module ‘Modernity and its Visual Culture’.

Tutor, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, 2017

Designed and taught the undergraduate module ‘Objects of the Mind: The Relationship Between Sculpture and Literature’.

Lecturer, Avni Institute of Art & Design, 2014-2015

Designed and taught the undergraduate module ‘Sculpting with Advanced Technologies’.

Guest Critic, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, 2013-2014

Provided feedback on the presentations of B.Arch students throughout the year.

TEACHING TRAINING

‘Krasis’, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2020

PLTO (Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford), the Ruskin, University of Oxford, 2017

‘Eloquent Things: Teaching Using Real Objects’, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2016

RESEARCH OUTPUTS 1: CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

‘Towards an Interactive Theory of Reception Aesthetics in the Fine Arts’ (paper), Reception: Contemporary Perspectives, VALE, Sorbonne University, 25 June 2021

‘Please Do Touch the Artwork: Making Sense of Modern Art through More Than Sight’ (paper), Making Sense: A Humanities Symposium, Rice University, 13 March 2021

‘Re-Embodying Disembodied Spectatorship: Rethinking Visual Art’s Prohibition on Touch through an Interactive Theory of Reception Aesthetics’ (paper), Altered States, Stony Brook University, 25 February 2021

‘Form Unfollows Function: The Autonomous Work of Art as a Designed Object’ (paper), 5th Cambridge AHRC DTP International Conference, University of Cambridge, 21 September 2020

‘A Pirate Artefact for Managing Fear of Missing Out’ (presentation), Occupying the In-Between, Goldsmiths, University of London, 29 May 2020

‘Investigating the Functionality of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine’ (presentation), Smithsonian American Art Museum Research and Scholars Center, Washington, D.C., 19 December 2019

‘The “Products” of Artistic Production: Thinking about Art in Design Terms’ (paper), Art as Commodities / Commodities as Art, University of York, 14 June 2019

RESEARCH OUTPUTS 2: PUBLISHED WORK

‘ “Making Sense” of Art through Design: Towards a Multisensory Theory of Reception Aesthetics’ (peer-reviewed journal article), Sillages critiques (under review)

‘A Second Generation Artefact for Reflecting on Parents’ Wasted Potential’ (documentation), OAR: The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, 2018, issue 3: cover, http://www.oarplatform.com/cover- second-generation-artefact-reflecting-parents-wasted-potential/

‘Fragile’ (article), Art Handler magazine, 2015, issue 1: http://art-handler.com/

‘The Sorrow of Her Tiny Playthings’ (exhibition review, author), Erev Rav journal, 2014, https://www.erev-rav.com/archives/31231/

‘A Second Generation Artefact for Reflecting on Parents’ Wasted Potential’ (documentation), Universe Magazine, 2012, issue 1: centre fold

‘Academy Now 2012 Winners’ Publication’ (documentation), winter 2013: 23

‘Faces of Design Awards Winners’ Publication’ (documentation), summer 2011: 7

‘REALITY’ (documentation), The New & Bad Magazine, 2011, issue 2: 75

‘Calatrava Checkpoint’ (documentation), Maayan Magazine, 2011, issue 4: 54

‘The Vitrine’ (documentation), Ha’ir, summer 2009: 31

‘HA-DA’ (documentation), Latset!, winter 2008: 36

RESEARCH OUTPUTS 3: EXHIBITIONS

‘Method to the Madness’, solo exhibition, SOLDES, Los Angeles, 2023 (forthcoming)

Title TBC, group exhibition, Blyth Gallery, London, 2023 (forthcoming)

‘The Naming of Parts’, group exhibition, venue TBC, London, 2023 (forthcoming)

‘Form Unfollows Function’, solo exhibition, Bullingdon Road Project Space, Oxford, 2022

‘GEP’, group exhibition, HerSpace, London, 2019

‘Money with a Capital “M” ’, group exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, 2018

‘Perfectionism’, group exhibition, Griffin Gallery, London, 2014

‘Transit’, solo exhibition, Studio 1.1, London, 2013

‘ALTER’, group exhibition, Vegas Gallery, London, 2012

‘Academy Now’, group exhibition, Hanmi Gallery, London, 2012

‘Facture’, two-person exhibition with Peter McLane, Light Gallery, London, 2012

‘Folly’, group exhibition, Vulpes Vulpes, London, 2012

‘The Poetics of Function’, M.F.A Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London, 2012

‘A.J.A.R. N`5 (Anonymous Journey in Art Research)’, group show, A.J.A.R Projekt Galerie, Berlin, 2011

‘Pop-aganda’, group exhibition, Vizzo Institute, Haifa, 2011

‘Secret Art 5’, group exhibition, Mani House, Tel Aviv, 2010

‘White Noise Machines’, B.Des Degree Show, Bezalel, Jerusalem, 2010

‘Fresh Paint’ Art Fair, Curators Choice Pavilion, Ha’tachana, Tel Aviv, 2009

‘Do the Love Drums Sleep at Night?’, solo exhibition, The Good & Bad Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2007

AWARDS & FUNDING

AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Award, 2017-2021

AHRC International Placement Scheme Award 2019-2020

Kirsh Foundation Postgraduate Research Grant, 2010-2012, 2016-2020

Sidney Perry Foundation Grant, 2019

Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Grant, 2018

Inger Lawrence Award, 2016

Academy Now Award (shortlisted), 2012

Faces of Design Award, 2011

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

Research Assistant to Michal Heiman, The Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University, 2016

Assistant Editor, Art Handler Magazine, 2015-2016

Content Production Assistant (curatorial and press), MoBY (Museums of Bat-Yam), 2013-2016

Assistant to Research Grant Administrator, Shpilman Institute for Photography, 2010-2011

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