Cissi Efraimsson

About Cissi Efraimsson

Cissi Efraimsson is a Swedish artist and director working in the fields of stop motion animation, sculpture, painting, and music.

Efraimsson graduated from the MFA program in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in 2022. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2018.

Efraimsson works at the borderline between reality and the surreal/supernatural. She often uses a dream, myth, or creature, placing them in the real world, within a contemporary context inspired by popular culture. Efraimsson is always applying a feminist point of view, and works on the border between the ordered and near-perfect and the skewed and absurd. Recurring themes include fantasy, escapism, magic, and the subconscious, while humor and a playful energy course throughout everything she creates. In addition, Efraimsson’s musical output is vast. She currently sings and drums in CISSI TV and Vulkano and has previously drummed in Those Dancing Days.