Efimova serves on the boards of the Carl Heidenreich Foundation,[8] Wild Projects,[9] and on the advisory board of the American Photography Archives Group (APAG).[10]
Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker: A Literary Installation by Moira Roth. The Magnes Collection, University of California Berkeley, 2013.[12][13]
They Called Me Meyer July. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2007. Presented at The Jewish Museum (NY)[14] and Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam).
Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. With guest curator Tirza True Latimer. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2005. Presented at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2005.[16]
Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia. Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC, 1996.
Selected books
Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats. Alla Efimova and Julie Decker, eds. Hirmer Publishers, 2021.
The Jewish Worlds: 100 Treasures of Art and Culture from The Magnes Collection. Alla Efimova and Francesco Spagnolo. Skira Rizzoli, 2014.[17]
Textura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture. Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, eds. The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Articles
"On the Art of Jonathon Keats," Zyzzyva (April 2021)[18]
"The Gifts," Brill (January 2007)
"To Touch on the Raw: The Aesthetic Affections of Socialist Realism," Art Journal (May 2014)
"On Sleep and Oblivion in Post-Soviet Film." In The Imprints of Terror: The Rhetoric of Violence and the Violence of Rhetoric in Modern Russian Culture, ed. Anna Brodsky, et al. (Wien: Sagner, 2006).[19]