A scientist turned an artist turned a museum curator, Boris Oicherman is interested in the potential of artists to become drivers of radical knowledge in the academy. As the Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota, Boris establishes a new program of artistic engagement with research across disciplines and practices. He is the recipient of the Asia Pacific Fellowship of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea (2012); of the Artist in Residence fellowship at the Faculty of Life Sciences in The Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2013-2014); and of the Curatorial Research Fellowship of the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2018).