Her family immigrated to Israel in 1991 at the height of the Gulf War, first to a kibbutz in Negev and several months later to Tel Aviv where she grew up and lived until the age of 20.

In false hope for scholarly artistic recognition, she continued on to a secular art high school to study film, which she then left, disillusioned with the education system at the beginning of the 12th grade to pursue music.

By 19 she formed Mary and The Baby Cheeses in Tel Aviv; A raw folk-punk combo featuring, among other instruments, a theremin and a metal heater for percussion.

"The Faust Studio Sessions and Other Recordings" followed shortly, featuring collaborations with Hans Unstern, and Julia Kent on a Robbie Basho cover.

The first new Mary Ocher release since the pandemic was "Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time", recorded at Palazzo Stabile in the north of Italy and mixed with Mike Lindsay of Tunng in Margate.

The recordings feature collaborations with Barry Burns of Mogwai, composer Roberto Cacciapaglia, Red Axes, and a homage to Delia Derbyshire.

ARTE's Into The Night with Ocher and Sasha Grey (2013) A couple Mary's tracks are featured in the horror film Ava's Possessions, the soundtrack of which was curated by Sean Lennon.

SWR's production Art's Birthday televised a full length performance of Mary Ocher + Your Government premiering new tracks live (2019).

a 9 week / 50 date North American tour), Mary toured Australia with Ned Collette + Wirewalker and Germany with 1000 Robota, The Great Hans Unstern Swindle, Die Goldenen Zitronen and German bestseller author Sibylle Berg, alongside actors Katja Riemann and Matthias Brandt to promote Berg's book Vielen dank für das Leben ("Many Thanks for Life").

Selected festivals: SXSW, Reeperbahn, CTM, Fusion, Pop Montreal, Le Guess Who (curated by Animal Collective), Steirischer Herbst.

A project with a variety of collaborators and guest appearances, amongst which members of Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten and Cluster (band) as well as Hanin Elias, formerly of Atari Teenage Riot and authors Ken Shakin and François Jonquet.

Ocher curated The Queens and The Rebels (of Unpopular Culture) - Festival for theatrical music/performance art and multimedia at the legendary Tacheles complex in Berlin.

2018: Performance of a one-off collaboration on pieces by fusion jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby with the drummers (Your Government) and legendary Mbira player Stella Chiweshe.

Mary narrates a surrealist 16mm art film inspired by waterbears by the title "The Hot & The Cold" by artist duo Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, to be screened in 3D, with special light, smoke and sound effects.

UI Picks episodes have been curated by cult and underground artists including Paddy Steer, Lydia Lunch, members of Chicks on Speed, and Vanishing Twin, owner of the legendary Voodoo Rhythm Records, Reverend Beat-Man and many others.

Ocher took part in Voices – a series of German fundraiser events for Physicians for Human Rights in Gaza, GENESIS show for The Art of Elysium charity for a children's hospital in LA, to which she was invited by Karen O and Rain Phoenix, alongside SoKo, Moses Sumney, Ariel Pink, Moby and Cat Power.