About

Tamara Efrat is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher, and senior lecturer at the Department of Fashion Design at the University of Haifa. Her research and creative work focus on the relationship between traditional craft and new technology, merging handwork with algorithmic thinking, computational design, and advanced fabrication processes.

Efrat holds a B.Des from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art and an M.Des with distinction from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her work has been exhibited internationally in leading museums, Galleries, and design events, including Design Art Tokyo, Berlin Design Week, the Design Museum Holon (Israel), the National Museum of Craft and Design in Canberra (Australia), the Museum of Decorative Arts in Bordeaux (France), Joseph Gallery in Paris and more.

She has participated in prestigious fellowships and residencies, including MIT designX and at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she initiated interdisciplinary projects connecting scientific research with artistic and material exploration. Her work has been presented and published in international platforms such as CHI (Computer-Human Interaction), reflecting her interest in interaction design, material culture, and the technological evolution of craft.

Efrat collaborates with startups and R&D teams on the development of wearable technologies, adaptive textile systems, and sustainable materials, including ongoing research into bio-design and bio-textiles.

Her practice proposes new ways of thinking through making—offering tools, methods, and perspectives that respond to urgent questions of sustainability, cultural continuity, and material futures.

Exhibitions

2024- “Puff Story,” The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, curated by Gar Raban

2024- “Collection”, The cillf Gallery, Netanya (curator: Guy Morag)

2023- “sea and shore”, Rosen Gallery, Ramat Gan (curator: Niv Nodelman, Rotem Kaplan)

2023- “Atuma”, Ha’Hava Gallery, Holon (curator: Guy Morag)

2023 - "Zumu Akko", (curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram), Akko

2023- Solo Exhibition “Encoded Craft”, BY5 Gallery, (curator: Talia Janover), Tel-Aviv

2023- “Atuma”, Ha’Hava Gallery, Holon (curator: Guy Morag)

2022- “TOUCHED”, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (curator: Alon Razgour)

2022- “Shelf Life”, B.Y5 Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Merav Rahat)

2021 - "Black Box", Benyaminyi Contemporary Ceramic Center, (curator Galina Arbeli), Tel Aviv

2021 - "Fresh Paint", Velodrom, Tel Aviv

2021 - "Black Box", Design Museum, (curators design museum team), Holon
2019 - "Garden of Eden", Tokyo Design Week, (curators: Tal Erez, Anat Safran), Tokyo
2019 - "RESOLUTION", Berlin Design Week, (curators: Dana Ben-Shalom and Galit Shvo), Berlin
2019 - "BauNow", Hansen House, (curators: Dana Ben-Shalom and Galit Shvo), Jerusalem
2018 - “Time Machines”, Design Museum, (curators Rona Zinger and Noga Shimshon), Holon
2018 - “Future Home”, Architecture Gallery, (curators: Limor Yossifon Goldman and Dana Gordon), Jaffa
2018 - “PHENOMENA”, Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design, curators Marion Pinaffo and Raphael Pluvinage), Bordeaux, France
2018- "Con-Serve” Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, (curators: Tal Erez, Anat Safran), Jerusalem
2017- “Violent Object”, State of design, Berlin Design Week (curators: Itay Laniado, Shira Keret), Berlin
2017- “Violent Object”, Vitrina Gallery, (curators: Itay Laniado, Shira Keret), Holon
2017- “Object”, Illustration Week Tel-Aviv, (curators: Danielle Ventura, Efrat Fridenzon), Tel-Aviv
2016- ״The Winners of the Ministry of Culture and Sports Prizes”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (curator: Tali Ben-Nun), Herzliya
2016- ״Embracing Innovation״, Craft ACT, (curator: Mel George), Canberra, Australia
2016- ״Creators”, Hanina Gallery, (curator: Shahaf Dekel), Tel-Aviv
2016- “Pencil”, Loveat Gallery, (curator: Limor Yossifon Goldman), Tel-Aviv
2016- “Scaffolding”, Hansen House, Jerusalem
2015- Solo exhibition, “Crafted Technology”, Bit Hair Museum, (curator: Claudette Zorea), Tel-Aviv
2015- “Meta Bolism”, Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, (curators: Glit Shvo, Johnathan Hopp), Jerusalem
2015- “The new Craft”, Vitrina Gallery, (curator: Yeal Eylat Van-Essen), Holon
2015- “The ABC of elections”, Ha’heder Gallery, (curator: Alef Alef Alef), Tel-Aviv
2011- “Color Night dresses”, Lorver Gallery, (curator: Ronen Levin), Ramat Gan

Awards

2022 - Ministry of Culture and Sport grant for a solo exhibition.

2022 - Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts grant for a solo exhibition.

2021- Grant for the company “Mon Terra” from W19

2019- Grant from “OGS” Our Generation Speaks for “Mon Terra” project.

2019- Grant from “Mifal Hapais” Council For Culture & Art.

2017- “Fashion Hackday”, Berlin Fab Lab, winner of second prize.

2016- Design and Technology Competition, Bezalel and the Hebrew University: winner of first prize.

2015- Certificate for Excellence in Design, M.Des in Industrial Design and Technology, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

2011- Excellency Prize for Academic Achievements, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel

Residency and Fellowship

2021- Residency at Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center.

2019- Participating in the program women for climate, C40 organization.

2019- OGS Fellowship in Boston at Brandeis University and MIT University.

2018- “BauNow” 2 weeks residency first week was (April) in Tel-Aviv and the second week (October) in berlin working at the UDK University and in Anhalt University Dessau toward Exhibition that will be held in Berlin and Tel-Aviv.

2018- JDW residency at Hansen house, Jerusalem, one week residency toward Jerusalem Design week.