Oicherman Boris

1973     Born in Leningrad, USSR

Education

2006     PhD (Colour Science), University of Leeds, UK

2003     MSc (Digital Colour Imaging), London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, UK

2002     Computer programming, Sela College, Bnei Brak, Israel
1996-1998         Printing Technologies, Hadassah College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel

Solo Exhibitions

2013     “Step Aside”, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012     “Speak My Language”, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

“Between the Cloud and the Clock”, Art Currents Institute, New York, USA

2011     “Local Rocks”, Gros gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

“The Case of Local Knowledge”, Gros gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

“Experiments in Closed Space”, Gallery of Israeli Art, Kiriat Tivon, Israel

Group Exhibitions, Projects, Festivals, Residences, Commissions

2013     “Zigmund, Gaza, Jerusalem v. 2”, public installation, Jerusalem, Israel

“Local (Re) Source”, public art research project, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel.

“The Game of Light and Shadow”, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

“Artboom”, Festival of Public Art, Krakow, Poland

Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv, commissioned site-specific installation

“Spajalica/Copula”, project of temporary public art interventions, “Soft Control” program (EU), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

2012     “SIDance”, Contemporary Dance Festival, Seoul, Korea

“Galicja Mon Amour”, SOKOL Gallery for Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz, Poland.

“Shadow Feedback”, Live video installation, opening event of the Art Year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,   Israel

Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2011     “Mindware. Technologies of Dialogue”, Residency, Lublin, Poland

Tsarino Foundation Residency, Tsarino, Bulgaria

Watertower Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

Bugrashov 86, a series of site-specific installations in a residential building, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010     “Tangle”, evening of performances and installations, Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

“Sketches”, The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

Official selection, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

“Process as a Paradigm”, Residency at the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain

2009     GIGUK Video art Festival, Gießen, Germany

Grants and Awards:
2013-2014: Artport scholarship and residency, Ted Arison Family Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013     Israeli Lottery Fund production grant for participation in 9th Kaunas Biennal of Contemporary Art, Lithuania

Step Beyond – EU travel grant for participation in the “Spajalica/Copula”, project of temporary public art interventions, “Soft control” program (EU), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

2012     Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Israeli Lottery Fund productions grant for one-person show “Between the Cloud and the Clock”, Art Currents Institute, New York, USA.

Science-Art collaborations

2007     Olafur Eliasson, Boris Oicherman: “Public Experiment: Colour”, Serpentine gallery, London, UK

2006     Olafur Eliasson and Boris Oicherman: “Your Uncertainty of Colour matching Experiment”, IKON   Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

Professional occupation

2010-    Artist, freelance colour science consultant

2009-2010 Senior Research Fellow, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, Israel. Advanced Virtuality Laboratory

2006-2009 Senior Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories Israel, Haifa, Israel

2004-2006 Part-time lecturer in Leeds College of Technology, Leeds, UK . Advanced Photoshop and Digital Colour Management

2003 – 2006 Freelance colour consultant, colour management and digital imaging (UK)

1997- 2002 Application Engineer, Indigo R&D, in charge of Workflow laboratory, Indigo Electronic Printing Systems, Ness Ziona, Israel

Patents

Patents in the fields of color calibration, image enhancement and color correction: US20110129148, US20110274348, US20120020557, WO/2004/068244A1, US20100232694, US20100182650, US20110222765, US20120121179, US20120134546