Keren Oxman is a visual artist living and working in New York. Her work experimentally speculates on the intersection of art and anthropology, the temporal artifact, and the exploration of cultural otherness.

At the center of her practice is the notion of encounter, a meeting point between depiction and event, narrative and materiality, with color as a main force for both emotional and conceptual expression. Her works stage situations in which forms collide, dissolve, and re-emerge, allowing meaning to surface through relation and friction, merging intellect and instinct, idiosyncrasy and collectivity. Her canvas becomes a dynamic arena where personal memory, art historical references, and contemporary textures coexist, creating an experiential field in which heterogeneous influences, temporalities, and visual languages converge, without settling into one form. 

For Oxman, painting is both a space for visual sensation and conceptual connection. The canvas functions as a “Contact Zone,” a term coined by Mary Louise Pratt to describe social spaces where geographically and historically separated peoples come into contact, form ongoing relationships, and occasionally clash within contexts of highly asymmetrical power.

Oxman holds a Bachelor’s degree with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and a Master’s degree with honors from the Royal College of Art in London, where she was a Clore Fellow. She has received the Rockefeller Grant in New York. Her artist residencies include Eyebeam Atelier, the Cooper Union School of Art, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Society of Illustrators in New York, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.