RUY SILVA was born in Viseu in 1974.
He completed the curricular year of the doctoral degree “PAINTING – point of reference, image-design”, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca. He has a first degree in Visual and Technological Education. He has been a teacher since he entered the Polytechnic Institution of Higher Education of Viseu, at its educational campus of Lamego, Higher School of Education of Viseu – where he taught Creative Expressions and Combined Expressions. He has in the meantime taken on a full-time job as fine artist and furniture and lighting designer.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES | GRAPHICAL WORK | PRIZES | AWARDS:
– Book illustration (vol. I – IV): “Histórias de amor dos avós contadas por crianças” – December 2013
– Book illustration: “Clara a menina das cores” – Hélder Reis – 2013
– Book illustration: GESTAÇÃO DA CHUVA – Hélder Reis – May 2012
– Prize ANIM´ARTE 2010 – Painting Production 2010
– TV host of ENCONTRARTE in PORTO CANAL from September 2008 to July 2009
– Communication at the European School, Brussels – 20 October 2006
– Promotional billboards of Cavalhadas de Vildemoínhos, Viseu 1996/98
– 1st Prize: Open-air (national contest), Mangualde – 1999
– 2nd Prize: contest “Jovens e Turismo”, Juve-Média – 1992
– 4th Prize: Photography Contest of Feira de S. Mateus, Viseu – 1999