My name is Rui Tenreiro, I'm Mozambican. I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I recently finished my MA at Konstfack in Stockholm.
My main professional focus is on writing and illustrating my own books. Aside from this, I work as a commercial illustrator. From textiles to ceramics, my works are usually connected with the universe within my stories.
From 2005–2011 I ran a publisher called Soyfriends, for which I did the editing, producing, managing and distributing.
BOOKS
2012 — Lanterns of Nedzu (In progress)
2011 — Thelytoky (Short-story)
2010 — Museum
2009 — Alamaissa (Short-story)
2008 — The Ogre (Unpublished)
2008 — The Celebration
2006 — Partie de Campagne (Short-story)
2005 — The Blackbird
CLIENTS
Advertising & Design Clients: BBDO Norway, Scandinavian Design Group (SDG), Leo Burnett, Net#work BBDO, DINAMO, Grafill, Jupiter Drawing Room, Ogilvy & Mather, Black River FC, Grey Advertising.
Publishers: Bonniers, Rabén & Sjögren, The Guardian, Faber & Faber, Virgin Books, Atlantic Books, Aschehoug, Samlaget, Bazar Forlag, Cappelen Damm.
Magazines: Dazed & Confused, Amelia's Magazine, Hot Rod Magazine, Adbusters Norway (Vreng), Snitt, Insikten.
Brands: Virgin Atlantic, Graniph, Levi's, Mercedes Benz, Tine Milk Norway , Solo (Smoothie), Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, Exclusive Books South Africa, Pepsi Max, Cell C, 5FM, MTN Cellphones, McDonald's, FedEx, Norrøna, Phoenix Beer, Standard Bank, Total Oil.
WORK AS EDITOR
Soyfriends
Independent Artists Books Publisher
Editor, producer and manager.
Norway, 2005-2011.
Forresten #23
Comics Anthology
Co-Editors: Erik Falk, Martin Ernstsen
Norway, 2009.
Utflukt
Picture Editor, Africa Issue.
Norway, 2011.
WORK AS CURATOR
Carbon Copy Commodity
Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
Exhibition of Artists Books & Fanzines: Seems Books, Nieves, Bongout, Hassla, Soyfriends, Used Future, Farewell Books.
(2007)
WRITING AND ARTICLES
O Hóspede
(Scriptwriter)
Adaptation of Camus' L'Hôte for film.
Black & white, 16 min.
Website (in Portuguese).
Utflukt Africa
'How The Zebra Got Its Stripes'
Read Article
Apartamento Magazine
'Estufa'
Read Article
WORK AS A JURI
Visuelt 2011
Category: Illustration
GRAFILL, Norway.
Gul Kalven 2008
Category: Illustration
Westerdaals School of Communication, Norway.
MENTIONS & FEATURES
Victionary Colour Mania
Design Indaba
It's Nice That
Cream City Review
'How to be an illustrator' (By Darrel Rees/Lawrence King)
Varoom
Creative Review
Dazed & Confused
SNITT (Grafill)
Kreativt Forum
NUMER
Hot Rod
AWARDS
Diploma for the book 'Trost'
Fiction category
Visuelt (2006)
Diploma for the book 'Trost'
Open class category
Årets Vakreste Bøker (2006)
Diploma in Advertising Illustration
With the piece 'Café Ska'?Visuelt (2005)
EXHIBITIONS
C/O illustration
Biblioteksgatan 10, Stockholm — 26-27 MAR 2011.
KONSTFACK Vårutställningen
Konstfack, Stockholm — 20-30 MAY 2010.
Nordicomics
Finnish Institute St. Petersburg —10 SEP -16 OCT 2010.
Konstfack SHOW GALLERIAN, Stockholm — APR 2010).
(Helsinki Comics Centre, Finland — AUG 2009.
RE:FWD:RE:RE:RE
Konstfack, Stockholm — 2009.
Joyful Belwiderment
HERE Gallery, Bristol— 7JUL-8AUG, 2009.
Monsters
Pony Club, United States — 2008.
Carbon Copy Commodity
Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town — 2007.
Diesel New Art
Oslo — 2005.
The A6 Exhibition
The Smallest and Least Significant Exhibition of 2005
Mathias Schuckert's kitchen, Berlin — October 2005.
My own kitchen, Oslo — August 2005.
EDUCATION
2008-2010:
MFA in Storytelling
(Graphic Design & Illustration)
Konstfack
Stockholm, Sweden
2001-2003:
BA (Hons) Illustration
Kent Institute of Art & Design (Currently UCCA)
Maidstone, England.
1998-2001:
Diploma in Advertising Art Direction
AAA School of Advertising
Johannesburg, South Africa
GRANTS & STIPENDS
Norsk Illustrasjonsfond (Norwegian Illustration Fund)
Work Stipend
2011
The Ulla Fröberg-Cramér foundation & Konstfack
Project stipend — On behalf of artist Mogorosi Motshumi.
2009
Norsk Illustrasjonsfond (Norwegian Illustration Fund)
Travel Stipend
2008
AMOCINE (Mozambican Cinema Association) & French Cooperation Mozambique
Grant for making of the film 'O Hóspede', in which I worked as organizer and script writer.
2008