Awards
20135 Best Designed Estonian Children’s Books, Certificate of Merit
20095 Best Designed Estonian Children’s Books, Special prize of the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (
The Golden Book of Estonian Fairy Tales)
2008Raisin of the Year Award (
Once Upon a Time...)
199525 Best Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit
1989Book design competition, 3rd prize, Riga
Baltic Book Graphics Competition, Certificate of Merit
Artist Book Competition, Certificate of Merit, Moscow
198825 Best Designed Estonian Books, Certificate of Merit
Exhibitions
2026Exhibition of illustrations from Estonian children’s literature "Children’s Rights: Protected Through Stories", United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
2025
Estonian illustration exhibition “Hello! Tere!”, Bologna International Children’s Book Fair, Italy
2024
TIT 2023 and TIT 2020 Estonian illustrators, Płock Art Gallery, Poland
2023
VII Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT 2023), Estonian Museum of Architecture
2021Exhibition of Baltic illustrators “Running with Wolves. Werewolf”, Museo di Villa Arbusto, Ischia, Napoli; Fondazione Creativi Italiani, Rooma; Museo Civico, Frigento, Italy
2020Group exhibition of Estonian illustrators “Leafing Through Estonian Children’s Books III”, Moscow, Russia
2018Exhibition of Estonian illustrators “Once Upon a Time...” (Grimm’s Fairy Tales), Kraków, Łomża, Białystok, Szczecin, Płock, Warszaw, Elbląg, Gdańsk, Opole, Poland
Group exhibition of Estonian illustrators „Tra ghiaccio e fuoco“, Rome, Pesco Sannita, Italy
Exhibition of Estonian illustrators “Masters of Estonian children’s books”/ “Power of Pictures” in Russia: Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow
2018–2020Exhibition of Baltic illustrators “Running with Wolves. Werewolf”, London, the United Kingdom; Estonian Children’s Literature Centre (“Wolf Run”), Tallinn; Gdańsk, Wrocław, Białystok, Warsaw, Płock, Szczecin, Poland; Pordenone, Italy; Vilnius, Lithuania; selected works: Pskov, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT), Estonia
2015Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2013Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT), Estonia
2012“A Handful of Book Illustrations by Estonian Artists”, Poland
2011–2018
Exhibition of artists from the Baltic Sea countries, “Sea Fairy Tales”, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Estonia
2011Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2010–2011
Travelling Exhibition of Estonian Book Illustration, Russia, Finland
2009Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT), Estonia
2008Illustration exhibition “Once Upon a Time…”, Estonian Children’s Literature Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
2007
Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2005
Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), Slovakia
2003Tallinn Illustrations Triennial (TIT), Estonia
Priit Rea graduated in design from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1980. He is a member of the Estonian Artist’s Association and the Estonian Graphic Designers’ Association. Rea is also the art director of the children’s magazine Täheke.
