Rui A. Pereira

Rui A. Pereira was born in Luanda in 1966. He graduated in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, and holds a Postgraduate degree in Editorial Techniques from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He has worked in different areas – literature, visual arts/exhibition curation, theatre, cinema, advertising, equipment and sculpture in public spaces – using design, painting, sculpture, illustration, engraving, screen printing and multimedia. He created the designs, covers, and illustrations for over a hundred literary works by Noam Chomsky, Mosh Lewin, James Anderson, Ignacio Ramonet, Borges Coelho, Mário de Carvalho, Mário Sacramento, Piteira Santos, José António Barreiros, Rogério Ribeiro, Paulo Fidalgo, Paulo Sucena, José Peixoto… for various publishers, such as Campo da Comunicação, Campo das Letras, Letras Paralelas, Círculo das Letras, Colibri, Labirinto de Letras, and L’Oriental Editrice. From May 2002 to February 2007, he was the image director of the Portuguese edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. He was part of the artistic direction of the Jorge Vieira Museum from 1998 to the beginning of 2012. He performed the same functions until the beginning of 2014 at the Escudeiros Municipal Gallery in Beja, coordinating a traveling art exhibition project in numerous municipalities across the country, especially in the Alentejo region. He is currently the artistic director of the Rogério Ribeiro Art Space – Gallery of the Circulo de Letras Bookstore, Lisbon. In 2013, he held an ontological exhibition of his graphic work at the Casa da Imprensa. He has exhibited individually and/or collectively in Lisbon, Cascais, Oeiras, Linda-a-Velha, Beja, Aljustrel, Almodôvar, Serpa, Castro Verde, Cuba do Alentejo, Odemira, Vidigueira, Santarém, Águeda, Alijó, Seixal, Vilafranca de los Barros (Spain)... His work is represented in private collections both in Portugal and abroad, particularly in Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, and France.