Ferenc Erfán has been a founding member of the Imre Révész Society of Transcarpathian Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists since its establishment in 1990. In 2005, he was admitted to the Hungarian Academy of Arts, together with painters László Magyar and Lajos Tóth, ceramic artist Anna Horváth, and writers László Vári Fábián, Magda Füzesi, and Zoltán Mihály Nagy,