Oxman's work has been displayed around the world, with pieces in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts, SFMOMA, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Science.
 Exhibits have also been shown at the Smithsonian, and the Beijing International Art Biennale and in 2020 a major retrospective of Oxman's work opened at the Museum of Modern Art.

She published papers on parametric and contextual design, and developed specific engineering techniques to realize those designs in various materials.
In 2006, she launched an interdisciplinary research project at MIT called materialecology, to experiment with generative design.
This project and related collaborations informed her early art.
She has promoted the idea of finding new ways to communicate about and collaborate on design.
 In 2016, she helped launch the open multidisciplinary Journal of Design Science.

She has appeared on the covers of Fast Company, Wired UK, ICON, and Surface magazine.
Her work is mentioned as an inspiration for changing how materials and structures are designed, and her artistic works were described by Andrew Bolton as "otherworldly—defined by neither time nor place".

On becoming a professor in 2010, Oxman founded the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab.
 There she expanded her collaborations into biology, medicine and wearables.

In 2019 it was revealed that her lab received $125,000 from financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through the MIT Media Lab and its director Joi Ito.
 She directed her students in the lab to send Epstein a gift despite the concerns about Epstein they brought to her attention.
Oxman's work has been displayed around the world, with pieces in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts, SFMOMA, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of Science.  Exhibits have also been shown at the Smithsonian, and the Beijing International Art Biennale and in 2020 a major retrospective of Oxman's work opened at the Museum of Modern Art.
She published papers on parametric and contextual design, and developed specific engineering techniques to realize those designs in various materials. In 2006, she launched an interdisciplinary research project at MIT called materialecology, to experiment with generative design. This project and related collaborations informed her early art. She has promoted the idea of finding new ways to communicate about and collaborate on design.  In 2016, she helped launch the open multidisciplinary Journal of Design Science.
She has appeared on the covers of Fast Company, Wired UK, ICON, and Surface magazine. Her work is mentioned as an inspiration for changing how materials and structures are designed, and her artistic works were described by Andrew Bolton as "otherworldly—defined by neither time nor place".
On becoming a professor in 2010, Oxman founded the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab.  There she expanded her collaborations into biology, medicine and wearables.
In 2019 it was revealed that her lab received $125,000 from financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through the MIT Media Lab and its director Joi Ito.  She directed her students in the lab to send Epstein a gift despite the concerns about Epstein they brought to her attention.
Neri Oxman