Awards
2021Karl Eduard Sööt Children’s Poetry Award, Readers Choice (Anti Saar.
The Great Pancake-Make, for illustrations)
2020Good Children’s Book (Anti Saar.
The Great Pancake-Make)
201925 Best-Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit (Priit Pärn.
The Gothamites Go Global)
Raisin of the Year Award (Ilmar Tomusk.
Unrelated Relations)
Good Children's Book (Ilmar Tomusk.
Unrelated Relations)
Edgar Valter Illustration Award nominee
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, category audio-visual art
2018
The White Raven (Ellen Niit.
Mr. Nightingale From Nightjar Street)
2017Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT), diploma
5 Best-Designed Estonian Children’s Books, Certificate of Merit (Ellen Niit.
Mr. Nightingale From Nightjar Street)
20165 Best-Designed Estonian Children’s Books, Special Prize of Jury (Raud, Eno.
The Gothamites)
20125 Best-Designed Estonian Children’s Books, Certificate of Merit (Daniil Harms.
Hedgehog and Siskin)
201025 Best-Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit (Mehis Heinsaar.
Ebatavaline ja ähvardav loodus)
2002Kristjan Raud Art Award
1989Karl Eduard Sööt Children’s Poetry Award, for illustrations (Ott Arder.
Valge raamat)
198325 Best-Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit (Pärn, Priit.
Tagurpidi)
197725 Best-Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit (Pärn, Priit.
The Gothamites)
Exhibitions
Priit Pärn's illustrations have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2020Exhibition with Ülle Meister, Tammsaare Museum at Vargamäe
2017"Õmblustöö ja juust", Tallinn Portrait Gallery, Estonia
2016"New Gothamites", Tallinn Portrait Gallery, Estonia
2008–2009 Olga and Priit Pärn's exhibition "Life without Gabriella Ferri", Helleman's Tower, Bank of Estonia, Tallinn; Tampere House, Tartu, Estonia
2007Exhibition of charcoal drawings, KUMU, Tallinn
2002Exhibition of charcoal drawings and prints "Estonian tensions", Félicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgia
2001"Priit Pärn's World", Rakvere town gallery and museum, Estonia
Selected group exhibitions:2021"Fables for Robots", Estonian Children's Literature Centre, Tallinn; Central Library of Lääne County, Haapsalu; Gdansk, Poland
2020"Fairy Tales from Near and Far", Viljandi City Gallery
2019Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2018 Exhibition of Estonian illustrators „Masters of Estonian children’s books“/“Power of Pictures“ in Russia: Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow
2017Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT)
Group exhibition of Estonian illustrators “Leafing Through Estonian Children’s Books I”, Moscow, Kolomna, Russia
2016Spring exhibition of Estonian illustrators, Estonian Children’s Literature Centre, Tallinn
„Valge maika”, Tartu Art Museum
2015„r:e:a:a:l:n:e: psühhedeelia järel”, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
2013Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
Estonian and Luxembourg artists in dialogue, Konschthaus Beim Engel, Luxembourg
2010–2011 Art festival "A Vision of Central Europe" curated by Luc Tuymans, Bruges, Belgium
Priit Pärn (1946) is a world-famous animated filmmaker, caricaturist, and illustrator. He graduated from the University of Tartu in biology, after which he worked as an art and animated film director at the Tallinnfilm and Eesti Joonisfilm studios. Pärn has taught animation at the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Finland, and currently teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He has illustrated more than 20 children's books and has a long history of collaboration with the children's magazine Täheke.
