Biography

Gilad Efrat

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2019 Gilad Efrat: Inside Painting, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; (curator: Amitai Mendelsohn) (cat.)
  • 2017 Resurface, Inman Gallery, Huston, Texas
  • 2016 Gilad Efrat: Paintings, 2014-2016, The Michel Kikoïne Prize, Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv University (curator: Irit Tal) (cat.)
    Thinking Path, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv
  • 2015 Sandwalk, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • 2012 Negev, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • 2014 Recent Works, (two person exhibition with Michael Jones McKean), Special Projects, Untitled Art Fair, Miami
  • 2010 Ape Scape, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (curator: Galia Bar Or) (cat.)
  • 2008 Common Place, Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome
    Common Space, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • 2006 New Paintings, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • 2004 No Man’s Land, Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy (cat.)
    Archeological Site, St. Augustine Church, Erfurt, Germany (curator: Rudolf Grass)
    Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • 2002 New Paintings, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
    Portraits, Oranim Institute Gallery, Israel (curators: David Wakstein and students)
  • 2001 City 2001, (two person exhibition with Etti Abergel), Nachshon Gallery,
    Kibutz Nachshon, Israel(curator: Yael Kainy)
  • 2000 New Paintings, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • 1998 Surface, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (curator: Dalia Levin) (cat.)
    The Reminiscence of the Desirable, North Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (brochure)
  • 1997 History and Destruction In the Landscape of Israel, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Tali Tamir)
  • 1996 Studios in the Shelter, Shelter gallery space, Jerusalem
  • 1995 Installation-Morasha-Musrara, The Morasha Art Center Gallery, Jerusalem (curator: Alex Kremer)

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 "When Faith Turns into Doubt", Bar-David  Museum, Kibbutz Baram; Curator: Avi Ifergan
  • "Gilad Efrat: Artist Wall", Maya Gallery, Tel  Aviv
  • 'Body Color', Dana Gallery of Art, kibbutz  Yad-Mordechai, Curator: Ravit Harari
  • 2018 Security Measures, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi'in;  (curator: Shirley Wegner)
  • Up to the First Touch, Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Kabri;  (curator: Smadar Schindler)
  • No pasarán: The Spanish Civil War, 80 Years On,  Jerusalem Print Workshop; (curator: Arik Kilemnik)
  • Landscape,  Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2017 This Must Be the Place, Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
    A Journey In The Fog, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • 'IzraelBanzai – Exhibition of Contemporary Israeli Art from the A-Collection',Schlüterstraße 45 Art Space; (curator: Alona Harpaz)
  • 2016 Sticks & Stones, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
    Take Painting, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (curator: Larry Abramson) (cat.)
    A New Horizon for New Horizons,  Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (curators: Gila Ballas, Yaniv Shapira, Dalia Danon)
    The Art of Humanity at The Pratt Institute, (traveling exhibition), Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
  • 2015 Visions 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, MD. (curators: Martin Rosenberg, J. Susan Isaacs) (cat.)
    Flora Palestina, New Gallery, Musrara - Naggar School of Art, Jerusalem (curator: Avi Sabag)
    CHROMA: Gilad Efrat, Carl Suddath & Jim Verburg, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
    Metropolis: The Urban Experience, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (curator: AdiShelach)
    Man-Land, Ha'emek Museum, Kibbutz Yifat, Israel (curator: Neta Habe)
  • 2014 Sand-Ness , Contemporary by Golconda Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Liav Mizrahi)
    Contemporary Art: Selections from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (curator: Alison de Lima Greene)
    Portraits, Worth Gallery, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar, Ramat Gan (curators: Gal Weinstein and students)
    Revealing the Concealed, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Shimon Lev)
    Similarity, Worth Gallery, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar, Ramat Gan (curators: Gal Weinstein and students)
  • 2013 Collecting Dust - Contemporary Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Tami Manor-Friedman) (cat.)
    Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, Israel (curators: Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon) (cat.)
    Great Wide Open: New and Old in the Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Amitai Mendelsohn)
    The Magic of the Cosmos, Carasso Science Park, Beer Sheva (curator: Haim Maor)
    Last Call, Maze 9 Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Jonathan Gold)
    Winners 2012, Ministry of Culture Prizes in Art, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel (curator: Yuval Beaton) (cat.)
  • 2012 Il Fuocodella Natura / The Flash of Nature", Salone Degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy (curators: Marco Puntin and Jonathan Turner) (brochure)
    Termite (three person exhibition with Jonathan Gold And Ami Feychevitch), Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Ravit Harari)
  • 2011 Southern Spirit, (traveling exhibition), The Negev Museum for Art, Beer Sheva;
    University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (curator: Dalia Manor)
    Artists’ Arte e Movimento (Art in Motion), Audi Italy, Rome, Italy (curator: Ludovico Pratesi)
  • 2010 No New Thing Under the Sun, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy of Art, London, England (curator: Gabriel Coxhead)
    Artist`s Choices, Susan Hiller: A Work in Progress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Susan Hiller) (cat.)
    Traces IV, Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Artists’ House (curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman) (cat.)
    After Soldier of Chocolate, Worth Gallery, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar, Ramat Gan (curator: Vered Zafran-Gani)
  • 2009 The Moon: Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (curator: Alison de Lima Green)
    History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art (curator: Hadas Maor) (cat.)
    Strangers in Conversation: (almost) 20 Years in Art, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
    Cockeye, Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art, Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv (curator: Sagi Refael) (cat.)
    Incontrid'aria (air meetings), Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
  • 2008 Real Time, Art in Israel 1998-2008, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curators: Amitai Mendelsohn and Efrat Natan) (cat.)
    Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (cat.)
    Internal Landscapes, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (curator: Irena Gordon) (cat.)
  • 2007 Traces III, Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem (curator: Dalia Manor) (cat.)
    Out of Time, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA (curator: Angela Fraleigh)
    Bare Life, On The Seam - Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Raphie Etgar) (cat.)
    The Sirens' Song, (traveling exhibition) Arthouse at the Jones Center of Contemporary Art, Austin; Galveston Art Center; Stanlee and Gerald Rubin - Center for the Visual Arts - University of Texas at El Paso;(curator: Kelly Baum) (cat.)
  • 2006 Core Artist in Residence Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (curator: Mary Leclère) (cat.)
    News: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Suzanne Landau)
    Introduction to the Artists of Oredaria Gallery of Contemporary Art, the International Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
    Artadia Reprised, Diverse Works, Houston (curator: Diane Barber) (cat.)
    In Between Places: New Art From Israel, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, New York (curator: Kari Conte)
    Leg, Lawndale Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas (brochure)
  • 2005 New Hebrews – A Century of Art in Israel, Martin Gropius House, Berlin (curators: Doreet Le Vitte Harten, Yigal Zalmona) (cat.)
    Core Artist in Residence Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (curator: Joseph Havel) (cat.)
  • 2004 Out of Conflict, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York (curator: Yoav Horesh)
    Exhibition 35, Jerusalem Print Workshop Gallery, Jerusalem (curator: Irena Gordon) (cat.)
    Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University Art Gallery, University of Haifa (curator: Avishai Eyal) (cat.)
  • 2003 The Right of the Image: Jewish Perspectives in Modern Art, Museum Bochum, Germany (curator: Hans Günter Golinski) (cat.)
    Marked Landscapes: ‘Landscape-Place’ in Contemporary Israeli Art, Senate Gallery and Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel (curators: Haim Maor and his students) (cat.)
    Ruins Revisited: The Image of the Ruin in Israel 1803-2003, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Gideon Ofrat) (cat.)
    Time Capsule, Art In General, New York, New York (curator: Tami Katz-Freiman) (cat.)
  • 2002 Un viaggio con Pasolini (A Journey with Pasolini),
    Contemporary Art in Mandrione, Rome (curator: Alfredo Pirri) (brochure)
    Views - Israeli Art from the Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    Focus on Painting, Haifa Museum of Art (curator: Daniella Talmor) (cat.)
  • 2001 Recipients of 2001 Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Prizes, Tel-Aviv Museum (curator: Edna Mosenzon)
    The Biennale for European and Mediterranean Artists, Rome (curator: Jannis Kounellis) (cat.)
    A Common Thread - Artists pay tribute to Moshe Kupferman, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem (brochure)
    Exhibition 28, Jerusalem Print Workshop Gallery, Jerusalem (curator: Irena Gordon) (cat.)
  • 2000 Exchange of Views, Vertretung des Landes NRW bei der Europäischen Union, Brussels (brochure)
    MITEINANDERS, M-Art International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Vienna
    The Mundane Muse: Artist in Search of Meaning in a Multi-Cultural Society, (traveling exhibition), Arad Museum; Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery (curators: Ada Naamani and Miri Taragan (cat.)
  • 1999 Skin-Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Suzanne Landau) (cat.)
    Tales of the Sands: Contemporary Israeli Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (curators: Graeme Murray and Sarit Shapira) (cat.)
    Not To Be Looked At: Unseen Sites in Israel Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator: Sarit Shapira) (cat.)
    Art Focus: International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem (curator: Ilan Wizgan) (cat.)
    Four Artists from Israel, PCC Kunstraum, Weimar, Germany (curator: Rudolf Grass)
  • 1998 To the East: Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curators: Yigal Zalmona and Tamar Manor-Friedman) (cat.)
    Unconscious Wire, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Eitan Hillel)
    Art and Realities in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Artists’ House (curator: Ilan Wizgan) (cat.)
    Sarajevo, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina (curator: Alfredo Pirri)
    Bamot: the Building, Destruction, and Restoration of High Places Israel 1948-1998, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria (curators: Oz Almog and Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek) (cat.)
    5 Young Artists from Jerusalem (traveling exhibition in Germany), Springer publishing house gallery, Hamburg; Rendsburg Jewish Museum, Culture Forum Dacheröden House, Erfurt (curator: Sylvia Ferdinand)
    Preview: Recent Acquisitions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    12² Graduates of the Bezalel Program for Young Artists, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (curator:  Larry Abramson) (cat.)
  • 1997 The Biennale for European and Mediterranean Young Artists (traveling exhibition) Torino; The Cable Factory, Helsinki (cat.)
    The Young Artist Awards Exhibition, Artist House, Tel Aviv (curator: Idit Porat) (cat.)
    Tokyo International Print Exhibition, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1996 Three artists, one studio, Studio in a shelter, Jerusalem
Born in 1969, Lives and Works in Tel Aviv

Prizes and Awards

  • 2015 Michel Kikoïne Prize for Israeli Painting, Tel-Aviv University
  • 2012 The Israeli Minister of Culture Prize
  • 2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York
  • 2006 Artadia Grant, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York
  • 2004 Janet and George Jaffin Prize for Excellence in the Visual Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
  • 2001 Lily Richmond Acquisition Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1998-9 The Sharett Foundation Fellowship for Painting, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
  • 1997 Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
  • 1994 The Herman Struck Award for Etching, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

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