Efrat
Hakimi

Education
2019: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
2016: Studies in Fine Art, HaMidrasha, Beit Berl, Israel
2010: B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Awards and Grants
2021: Research Council discretionary grant, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, US
2021: Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2020: The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020: Small Grant, Asylum Arts, Brooklyn, NY, US
2020: Propeller Impact Grant, Threewalls, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Emergency Grant, CERF+, Montpelier, VT, US
2020: Arts for Illinois Relief Fund ,3Arts, Chicago, IL
2020: Artist Relief Grant, NY, US
2020: Asylum Arts Emergency Grant, Brooklyn, NY, US
2020: Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY, US
2020: High Holidays Digital Art Grant, Asylum Arts, Brooklyn, NY, US
2019: Katz International Photography Award, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Lisa Wainwright Scholarship, SAIC, IL, US
2019: Shapiro Center Research Fellowship, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: REAM Foundation Graduate Merit Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Exhibition Grant, Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, Israel
2018: Level Up Grant, Shapiro Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Professional Development Award, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Practice Social Grant, Student Government, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency Merit Scholarship, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Collaboration Grant, U Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
2018: George & Ann Siegel Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2017: Dean’s Grant, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2017: Incentive Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2017: Exhibition Grant, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016: Prize of Excellence, HaMidrasha-Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl, Israel

Collections
Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
IBM, Tel Aviv, Israel
Electra
Private Collections

Publications
2021: Dea Hadar, Sick Day, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn, NY
2020: The Rise and Fall of the Coops, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn, NY
2020: Joy Bernard, Tashlikh Atlas, Benditka Magazine, Israel
2020: Presser prize announcement, Erev Rav Magazine, Israel
2020: Ophir Toubul, Tashlikh Atlas, Kan Tarbout, Israel
2020: Claire Voon, Critic’s Pick, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020: Lori Waxman, Lumpen Magazine #137 , Chicago, IL
2020: Avi Lubin, Hamidrasha Gallery Yearbook, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020: Susan J. Musich, Review, 60 Inches from Center, Chicago, IL
2020: Kerry Cardoza, Fall Arts Preview 2020 , Chicago, IL
2020: Arielle Angel, Zion, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn, NY
2020: Lori Waxman, 60 Words/Min Art Critic, Chicago, IL
2020: Moshe Gilad, Zion, Haaretz, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Jan Tichy & Robin Schuldenfrei, Ascendants, IIT, Chicago, IL
2019: Kathleen Rice-Guter, Immersion, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn, NY
2019: Casey Carsel, A Translucent Approach, Fnews, Chicago
2019: Matisse Rosen, Tikkun/Repair, Protocols Journal, Glendale, CA
2019: Robert Ungar, Home Biome, Ground Up Journal, UC Berkeley CA
2019: Nathan Englander, Kaddish.com, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn, NY
2019: Leah Gallant, Messier Objects, Chicago, IL
2019: Gil Cohen, Woman in a Workspace, Photo Poetics, Jerusalem
2019: Candor Arts, Shared Loneliness, Chicago, IL
2019: Tehila Hakimi, Company, Resling, Tel Aviv, israel
2018: Menachem Kaiser, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn ,NY
2017: Nechama Winston, New Poetics of Labor, New York, US
2017: Escape Room, Art Viewer, Antwerp, Belgium
2017: Efrat Hakimi, Paper Works, Granta Magazine, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: Efrat Hakimi, Maayan 13, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: Rachel Myerson, Feminine Mystique, Time Out, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016: Efrat Hakimi, Haokets, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016: Alon Bar, Every day something falls, Helicon/Afik, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016: Efrat Hakimi, Hollywood/land, Maayan, Tel Aviv, Israel

Curatorial
2018: Object Lessons: Book Explorations, with Myungah Hyon, 062 Gallery

Teaching / Lectures
2021: Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking, Department of Art & Art History, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, US
2021: Lecturer, Printmedia Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2021: Bookmaking Workshop, Hyde Part Art Center, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Artist Workshop, Contemporary Practices department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Art Instructor, Moadon Kol Khadash, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Artist talk, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Artist talk with Avi Lubin, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020: Artist Workshop, Sculpture Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Artist talk, Zion National Park, UT, US
2019: Bookmaking Workshop, Contemporary Practices department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Lecture: On Monuments, Art and Technology Studies Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Lecture: The Ideologies of Objects, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Teaching Assistant, Public Light and Space with Jan Tichy, Art and Technology Studies Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Research Assistant, The Shapiro Center grant with Jan Tichy, Art and Technology Studies Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Artist Workshop, Sculpture Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Teaching Assistant, Artists Books with Myungah Hyon, Printmedia Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Teaching Assistant, Professional Practices with Jan Tichy, Photography Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Together Garden Workshops, 21st Century Charter School, Gary, IN, US
2018: Podcast workshops in collaboration with CPS Lives and SAIC, Drake Elementary School, Bronzeville, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Curatorial: Object Lessons, with Myungah Hyon, 062, Chicago
2018: Visiting Artist, Art and Technology Studies Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2018: Lecture: Looking at the Speculum, University of Chicago, IL, US
2017: Teaching Assistant, Painting I with Dan Devening, PTDW Department, SAIC, Chicago, IL, US
2017: Artist Workshop, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel

Solo Exhibitions
2022: Looking for a Village, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2020: Flora, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Zion, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Standard Liability Release, LOO, Chicago, IL, US
2019: Extraction leaves a hole, UGLY, Chicago, IL, US
2018: Five Works, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
2018: Tools, 062 Gallery, Chicago
2016: Paper Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions
2022: At Memory’s Edge, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, FL, US
2021: Present Artifacts, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2021: Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism, online exhibition, The Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, US
2021: Project Roots, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021: Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020: Chicago Expo Exhibition Weekend, Extase, Chicago
2020: Ground Control, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020: Windows to the World, 6018 North, Chicago, IL, US
2020: Expansion, The Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv
2020: In Even The Oldest Utopia There is a Song Too Short To Sing, UGLY, Chicago
2020: Study Habits, USF Gallery, Joliet
2020: Standard Liability Release, Loo, Chicago
2019: MFA Show, Chicago
2018: Woman in a Work Space, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem
2018: Pen Incest, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
2018: Tee Time, Free Range, Chicago
2018: Chicago Art Book Fair
2018: Future Tense: Emerging Chicago Artists, University Club of Chicago
2018: Bang Bang, Taipei Art Book Fair, China
2018: The Cardboard Show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
2018: Unfold, Shanghai Art Book Fair, China
2018: Al Camello Camello Y Al Amor Amor, Medellín, Colombia
2018: Arts, Science + Culture, Screening, Gray Center U-Chicago
2017: Shelter, Beit Kandinof, Jaffa
2017: Salon, Hakubiya, Jerusalem
2017: Summer 2017, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017: Escape Room, Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv
2017: Cherries, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv
2017: Fresh Paint 9, Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv
2016: Espace De Travaille, La Fosse, Marseille
2016: BFA Graduation Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl
2016: Masterpiece, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem
2016: Grey Market, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv
2015: Visitor Center, Tel Aviv Artists House
2015: Lies And Crimes, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv
2014: Shmezalel, Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013: Hard To Get, Minshar Workshops, Tel Aviv
2012: The Photographic Language, Zilum Ba’am, Tel Aviv

Projects
2018: Drake Elementary Podcast with CPS Lives, Bronzeville Chicago
2018: Seniors Park with The Heat Light Water Project, Gary Indiana