An artist, educator and a PhD student at the computer science department @ Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sharan is a member of the Hybrid Lab which studies craft, creativity and technology.
My research is focused on expanding the expressive potential of digital fabrication machines, using robotics, AI and 3D design tools. I’m developing new digital tools for surface design and fabrication as well as a new body of art work.
EDUCATION
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | PhD | Computer Science, 2018-2024 (projected)
Cranbrook Academy of Art | MFA | Ceramics, 2012
Bar Ilan University, Israel | B.Sc | Physics and Computer Science, 1999
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 - Current Faculty Member - Negev School of Architecture, Shamoon College of Engineering. Beer Sheva, Israel
2022- Current Lecturer - Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
2019-Current Lecturer- Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Israel
2015 Visiting Assistant Professor Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY USA
2008-2018 Designer Partner “lightexture”
2000–2003 Software Engineer, Philips Israel
1996-1999 Research Assistant, Minerva Institute at Bar Ilan University Israel
PUBLICATIONS
Sharan. R. Elran and Amit. R. Zoran, “The Ghost in The Machine: Digital Stylization and Expressive Re-Materialization of Ancient Ceramics,” Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1–8, Sep. 2022, doi: 10.1145/3533609
Sharan. R. Elran, Yuval Harel and Amit. R. Zoran, “ Fine Motor Skills: Operating standard robotic fabrication as a generative system,” Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. ( accepted to be published sept 2023)
CONFERENCES
When Materials Take Control: On a Pedagogy that Emphasizes the Role of Materials in Architectural Education. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 2023
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Tell (Dou Show with Shay Zilberman) Hacubia , Jerusalem Israel
2018
Esther and John Clay Fine Art Gallery, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
"Tel Aviv Art and Design Biennale 2023 ", MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
"Brain Storm", Isrotel, Tel Aviv
2022
"E-Ceramics" Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center Tel Aviv
2020
“XYZT: Material Investigations” Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center Tel Aviv
2017
“Breaking the Mold,” Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
“REINVENTED” Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
“Cranbrook—A New Domestic Landscape,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2016
"Made for You: New Directions in Contemporary Design," Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, NY
“The Clay Studio National 2016” The Clay Studio , Philadelphia, PA
"Dirt Poets: Conceptual Clay," Transylvania University's Morlan Gallery Lexington, KY
2015
“Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics,” Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH
“The Slipcast Object Revisited,” Plinth Gallery Denver, CO
“Lit,” Albany Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2014
“The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White,” Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT
2013
“New Morphologies: Studio Ceramics and Digital Processes,” Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
“2013 NCECA Biennial Exhibition,” Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Imprinting on Clay: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Seventh Biennial for Israeli Ceramics,” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
“Penrosescape,” Oranim Project, Tel Aviv, Israel
PRESS
Dell Hoarrow and Stacy Joe Scott, New Morphologies: Studio Ceramics and Digital Process, exhibition catalog, 2013 (cover photo)
Experiencing Perspectives 2011-2012, exhibition catalog.
Bruce Webber, All American: A Book of Lessons, Vol. 12
NCECA Biennial 2013, exhibition catalog, 2013
Anat Gatenio, Imprinting on Clay: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Ceramic Art, exhibition catalog, 2013 (cover photo)
Design Museum Holon Online Magazine, April 2012
COLLECTIONS
The Frankel Foundation for Art, MI
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY
Private collections (USA, Europe, Israel and Taiwan)
INVITED TALKS
Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture andTown Planning, Haifa, Israel, January 2017
State University of New York at New Paltz, Art Department, New Paltz, NY, November 2016
Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2016