
Gilad Efrat received a BFA and MFA from the Bezelel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. From 2004-2006 he lived in Houston, TX, while participating in the Core Artist-in-Residence Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Efrat has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe, the US and Israel, including Ape Scape, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (2010), Common Place, Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome (2008), Archeological Site, St. Augustine Church, Erfurt, Germany (2004), and solo exhibitions at numerous galleries, including Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv and Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas.
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Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
A Day and A Night
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel2019
Gilad Efrat: Inside Painting
Israel Museum, Jerusalem2018
Gilad Efrat: Evolution
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel2017
Gilad Efrat: Resurface
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX2016
Thinking Path
Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, IsraelGilad Efrat: Paintings 2014 – 2016The Michel Kikoïne Prize
Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel2015
Sandwalk
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX2012
Negev
Inman Gallery, Houston, TXTermite, three painters
Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel2010 Ape Scape
Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel2008
Common Space
Inman Gallery, Houston, TXCommon Place
Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy2006
New Paintings
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX2004
No Man’s Land
Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome, ItalyArcheological Site
St. Augustine Church, Erfurt, Germany2004
Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel2002
New Paintings
Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, IsraelOranim Institute Gallery
Oranim Institute Gallery, Oranim, Israel2001
Untitled
Nachshon Gallery, Kibutz Nachshon, Israel2000
New Paintings
Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel1998
Surface
Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
North Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark1997
History and Destruction In the Landscape of Israel
Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel1995 Morasha-Mosrara
The Morasha Art Center Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Landscapes
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelA Journey In The Fog
Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
This Must Be the Place
Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel2016
Sticks and Stones
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelTake Painting
Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, IsraelA New Horizon for New Horizons
Museum of Art Ein Harod, Ein Harod, IsraelThe Art of Humanity at the Pratt Institute, (traveling exhibition)
Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NYFondazione Giorgio Cini
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy2015 CHROMA
Inman Gallery, Houston, TXVisions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, (traveling exhibition)
Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, State University of New Jersey
Towson University Art Gallery, MDFlora Palestina
New Gallery, Musrara – Naggar School of Art, Jerusalem, IsraelMetropolis: The Urban Experience
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IsraelMan-Land
Ha’emek Museum, Kibbutz Yifat, IsraelMidday Summer Dream
Feinberg Projects – Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel2014
Sand-Ness
Contemporary by Golconda art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelContemporary Art: Selections from the Museum’s Collection
The Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, TX
Portraits
Multidisciplinary Art Department Projects Space, Ramat Gan, IsraelRevealing the Concealed
P8 Gallery,Tel Aviv, IsraelSimilarity
Multidisciplinary Art Department Projects Space, Ramat Gan, Israel2013
Collecting Dust Contemporary Israeli Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelGreat Wide Open: New and Old in the Collection
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelThe Magic of the Cosmos
carasso science park, Beer Sheva, IsraelPrint Time
The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, IsraelLast Call
Maze 9 Gallery, Tel Aviv, IsraelWinners 2012
The Ministry of Culture Prizes in Art, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel2012
Il Fuoco della Natura / The Flash of Nature
Salone Degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy2011
Southern Spirit
The Negev Museum for Art, Beer Sheva, Israel2010
No New Thing Under the Sun
Royal Academy of Art, London, EnglandArtists’ Choices, Susan Hiller : A Work in Progress
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelAfter Soldier Chocolate
Multidisciplinary Art Department Projects Space, Ramat Gan, Israel2009
Collected Works
Inman Gallery, Houston, TXThe Moon: “Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle has Landed”
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TXStrangers in Conversation: (almost) 20 Years in Art
Inman Gallery, Houston, TXCockeye, Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art
Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv, IsraelIncontri d’aria (air meetings)
Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy2008
Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXHistory of Violence
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IsraelReal Time Art in Israel 1998 – 2008
The Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, Israel2007
Traces III, Biennale for Drawing in Israel
The Artists House Gallery, Jerusalem, IsraelOut of Time
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PABare Life, On The Seam / Socio-Political
Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelThe Sirens’ Song
Arthouse at the Jones Center of Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX2006
Premiere
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelLeg
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TXCore Artists in Residence
The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX2005
New Hebrews – A Century of Art in Israel
Martin Gropius House, Berlin, Germany2005
Core Artists in Residence
The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX2004
Out of Conflict
Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NYExhibition 35
Jerusalem Print Workshop Gallery, Jerusalem, IsraelOur Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel
The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel2003
…the right of the image…Jewish Perspectives in Modern Art
Museum Bochum, Bochum, GermanyMarked Landscapes
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, IsraelRuins Revisited
Time for Art – Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv, IsraelTime Capsule
Art In General, New York, NY2002
Ne Carne Ne Pesce
Contemporary Art in Mandrione, Rome, ItalyLandscapes
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelFocus on Painting
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel2001
Recipients of 2001 Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Prizes,
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, IsraelExhibition 28
Jerusalem Print Workshop Gallery, Jerusalem, IsraelThe Mundane Muse, (traveling exhibition)
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
Arad Museum for Art, Arad, Israel2000
Meeting-Anothers
M-ART International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria1999
4 Artists from Jerusalem
PCC Kunstraum Weimar Gallery, Weimar, GermanyNot To Be Looked At: Unseen Sites in Israel Today
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelArt Focus 3: International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Teedy Stadium, Jerusalem, IsraelThe Biennale for European and Mediterranean Artists, Rome, Italy Tales of the Sands: Contemporary Art from Israel,
Fruitmarket The Gallery, Edinburgh, ScotlandSkin – Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel1998
Unconscious Wire: Being in the Local Art Scene
Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, IsraelArt and Reality in Jerusalem
The Artists House, Jerusalem, IsraelSarajevo Workshop and Exhibition, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
5 Young Artists from Jerusalem, Springer Gallery, Hamburg, Germany To the East: Orientalism in the Arts in Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IsraelBamot: Israel 1948 – 1998
The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaPromo
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem1997
The Biennale for European and Mediterranean Artists (traveling exhibition)
Torino, Italy; Cable Factory, Helsinki, FinlandEtchings
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Education
2003
The Hebrew University and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
MFA1998
Post Graduate Program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel1995
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
BFA1994
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
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Collections
Bank Leumi Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
General Mills Art Collection, USA
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Israel Discount Bank Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mishkan Le’Omanut Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel
Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Israel Phoenix, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, TX
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Awards
2015
Michel Kikoïne Prize for Israeli Painting, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel2012
Israeli Minister of Culture Prize in the Plastic Arts for 2012, Jerusalem, Israel2007
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY2006
Artadia Grant, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Houston, TXCore Artist-in-Residence, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, TX
2004
Jaffin Award, America-Israel Cultural Foundation (Sharet Foundation), Israel2001
Richmond Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel1999
Sharet Foundation Fellowship for Painting, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel1998
Sharet Foundation Fellowship for Painting, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel1997
Young Artists’ Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel1994
The Herman Struck Award for Etching, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel