Artist, painter, senior member of faculty and lecturer in the Department of Multidisciplinary Art.
Efrat earned a MFA from the joint program of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the Hebrew University, after which he was accepted to the prestigious Core Residency program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, which includes a two year residency and creative practice scholarship, during which he taught at Rice University in Houston.
in 1997 he had his first solo exhibition in the Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv, and since then has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including in Austria, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Demark, Texas, New York, Scotland and Philadelphia.
Efrat recently showed his works at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Comprehensive catalogs of his work were published in conjunction with the Museum of Art, Ein-Harod (Ape Scape), Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome (No Man’s Land 2004) and Herzliya Museum of Art (Surface, 1998).
Over the years he has been awarded various prestigious awards for his work, including the Minister of Culture’s Prize for Plastic Arts (2012), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2012), The Artadia Grant, the American foundation for Art and Dialogue (2004) and the Richmond Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2001).
