Photo Kelsey Hart
Cissi Efraimsson
Cissi Efraimsson is a Swedish artist and director working in the fields of stop motion animation, sculpture, film, painting and music.
Efraimsson graduated the MFA program in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in May 2022. She received 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 and places it in the real world, within a contemporary context inspired by popular culture. Efraimsson works on the border between the ordered and near-perfect and the skew and absurd. The atmosphere she creates is often a balance between the ugly and beautiful, and Efraimsson mines events and dialog from her own life – with a certain degree of twisting and turning. Recurring themes include fantasy, escapism, magic, and the subconscious, while humor and a playful energy course throughout everything Efraimsson creates.
Her musical output is vast, and Efraimsson currently sings and drums in punk-pop trio Vulkano, having previously drummed in Those Dancing Days.
Exhibitions (selection)
2023 July Everything but the Kitchen Zinc, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, group show, Los Angeles, US
2022 Dec Midnight Feast, Chandran Gallery, group show, San Fransisco, US
2022 June The Collection, Gävle Art Center, group show, Gävle, SE
2022 May Sea Angels - props and puppets, Calarts, solo exhibition, Valencia, US
2022 April SPRING 2022, Konstkompaniet, group show, Stockholm, SE
2022 April Experimantal animation art show, CalArts, group show, Valencia, US
2021 Dec Full Circle, the Doolittle House, group exhibition, Joshua Tree, US
2021 Oct Animation Gallery Night, CalArts, group exhibition, Valencia, US
2021 Feb Kl 9, Östermalms tunnelbanestation, solo exhibition, Stockholm, SE
2020 Dec The Portal, Udda Fåglar, solo exhibition, Stockholm, SE
2020 Juni Isolation, kommunikation , group exhibition, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE
2019 Nov Konst just nu, group exhibition, Folkets hus, Söråker, SE
2019 Sep End of summer, group exhibition, Helio, Stockholm, SE
2019 Aug Moon phases, solo exhibition, Misshumasshu, Stockholm, SE
2019 Maj Don’t disturb me when I’m chillin, solo exhibition, OCH Galleri, Stockholm, SE
2019 Juni Konst just nu, group exhibition, Folkets hus, Nyköping, SE
2019 Juni Konst just nu, group exhibition, Bagarmossens Folkets Hus, Stockholm, SE
2019 Maj Konst just nu, group exhibition, Folkets hus, Lidköping, SE
2018 Maj Graduation show, group exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, SE
Film Festivals (selection)
My Ex Boyfriend (2021)
2022 Cardiff Animation Festival, Cardiff, Wales
2022 Palm Springs Animation Festival, Palm Springs, US
2022 Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, US
2022 Stop Motion Mx Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 San Francisco Short Film Festival, San Fransisco, US
2022 Mexico City Independent Film Fest, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Santa Fe, US
2021 Prime The Animation! New Talent International Festival, Valencia, Spain
2021 Show Me Shorts Film Festival, Auckland, New Zeeland
2021 Montreal Independent Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Awards
2018 Best music video of the year (Les Big Byrd), Swedish Grammy Awards, SE
2021 Best music video of the year (Promise and the monster), Manifestgalan, SE