Efrat Hakimi

Visiting Professor

Areas of Specialization: Installation, research-bound practice, alternative archive-production, lens based practices, printmaking, book-arts, and collage modalities.

M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Email: Efrat.Hakimi@stonybrook.edu
Office: Staller Center for the Arts #4287
Office Hours: Mondays 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Web: https://efrathakimi.com/

Efrat Hakimi is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Working across technologies and crafts, she studies and interprets images, objects, and sites to explore the relationships between bodies and cultural artifacts, especially those that bear witness to the female body. Hakimi's practice is engaged with contemporary feminist thinking, social justice, anti-colonialism and their application in art and media. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Roots and Culture, Chicago; and Hayarkon 19 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Hakimi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) and her BSc. from Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva (2010). Hakimi is the recipient of the Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professorship in Studio Art at Stony Brook University (2024-26). She received the New Jewish Culture Fellowship (2023), the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Photography from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2020), and the Katz International Photography Award (2018). Hakimi is the mother of Tamara, with her partner Shabtai Pinchevsky, they live in Brooklyn.