Artist Efremov Alexei Valentinovich was born in 1963 in Sverdlovsk.

Painter, graphic artist, winner of the 2010 Sverdlovsk Region Governor's Prize.

In 1983 he graduated from the painting and pedagogical department of the Sverdlovsk Art School. In 1991 graduated from the Department of Art History of the Ural State University. Since 1991 he has been engaged in museum design and interior decoration.

Favours easel painting (genres of landscape, portrait, still life) and graphics. He is a master of urban landscape, especially of old Yekaterinburg.

Over the last 15 years has held more than 30 personal exhibitions, a regular participant of collective city and regional art exhibitions.

Alexei Efremov's paintings are on permanent display at the RakovGallery and are also held in private collections in Russia, Europe and the USA. His works have been published in a number of books on the art of the Urals, several series of calendars have been published, personal albums of the artist's paintings were published in 2008/2011/2020.