BIO
In a career spanning 30 years, André Carrilho has won over 100 awards and honours (below) in illustration, editorial cartoon, animation and caricature, and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, Czech Republic, China and USA. His work has been published in an extended list of newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Independent on Sunday, NZZ am Sonntag, Harper's Magazine, Diário de Notícias and New Statesman.
In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Award for Illustrator's Portfolio by the Society for News Design (USA), one of the most prestigious illustration awards in the world. In 2015 one of his cartoons on the ebola epidemic became viral worldwide, winning the Grand Prize at the World Press Cartoon. That same year he was invited to create a caricature mural to decorate the famous annual Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party.
In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Award for Illustrator's Portfolio by the Society for News Design (USA), one of the most prestigious illustration awards in the world. In 2015 one of his cartoons on the ebola epidemic became viral worldwide, winning the Grand Prize at the World Press Cartoon. That same year he was invited to create a caricature mural to decorate the famous annual Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party.
In 2020 he wrote and illustrated the picture book A Menina com os Olhos Ocupados (The Girl with the Occupied Eyes) that won a Gold Medal at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, and was a finalist at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 58th edition.
In 2005 he founded Video Jack with programmer/musician Nuno Correia, a creative multimedia partnership focused on VJing and live acts combining original animation, customised dedicated software and electronic music. Their latest project was an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece Master and Margarita.
Since 2009 he publishes a weekly editorial cartoon in Diário de Notícias.
He's the producer and co-creator of Spam Cartoon, a series of animated editorial cartoons for 360º, the Thursday nightly newscast at RTP Notícias. Spam Cartoon current cartoonists are André Carrilho, Cristina Sampaio and Tiago Albuquerque.
Since 1992 his work has appeared in the following publications:
20 Anos, 33 Thoughts, 5280 Magazine (Denver, USA), American Prospect, Air Mail, The Atlantic, Atlântico, Billboard, Briefing, Boston Magazine, Business UK, Courrier Japon, Courrier Internacional, Diário Económico, Diário de Notícias, D Magazine, Departures, Direito em Revista, Egoísta, Exame, Expresso, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Fortune, GQ, Ghahveh (Iran), Granta Portugal, Haleyburian, Harper’s Magazine, Icon, Invista, O Independente, The Independent on Sunday, Jornal de Negócios, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Macau, Máxima, Miami New Times, El Mundo, Mother Jones, New Republic, New Statesman, The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, New York Observer, NZZ am Sonntag, L’Observateur, O Magazine, El País, Paralelo, Ponto Final, Público, Reader's Digest, Ronnie Scott’s Magazine, Sábado, San Diego Reader, Show People Magazine, Standpoint, Up, US Banker, Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair Germany, Vanity Fair España, Village Voice, Washington Post, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Word Magazine.
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Press Clippings and Interviews
• Photomaton, Interview by Cândida Pinto, RTP, 18 Jan 2021
• Interview for Amadora BD, 28 Oct 2021
• Feasting on the President - Illustration in the age of Trump, by Ellen Shapiro, Print magazine, 21 Aug 2018
• Bairro das Artes, SIC Notícias, 22 Sep 2017
• Diário de Notícias Sep 26, 2017.
• As Horas Extraordinárias, RTP, Sep 27, 2017
• Tandis magazine (Iran) Sep 2017 (in farsi)
• Ghahveh magazine (Iran), Sep 2017
• The Guardian, 'As a satirist, I can barely keep up': the stories behind the Trump magazine covers, Aug 24, 2017
• Filhos da Nação, RTP, 6 June 2017
• Illustrator profile for AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION, by Robert Newman, June 16, 2016
• TV interview in Os Livros, by Inês Fonseca Santos, April 17, 2016
• TV interview at Cinco Para a Meia-Noite with Fernando Alvim, April 11, 2016
• Interview for Ponto Final*, by Sara Figueiredo Costa, Macau, China, February 19, 2016 (in Portuguese)
• Interview for Diário de Notícias, by Ana Sousa Dias, Portugal, February 12, 2016 (in portuguese)
• Interview for Expresso, by Maria João Bourbon, Portugal, August 2, 2015 (in portuguese)
• Interview for If You Walk The Galaxies, by Cláudia Marques Santos, Portugal, March 24, 2015 (in portuguese)
• TV interview about the Vanity Fair Oscar party mural, SIC, Portugal, Feb 24, 2015 (in portuguese)
• TV interview about the Vanity Fair Oscar party mural, RTP, Portugal, Feb 24, 2015 (in portuguese)
• TV interview for Conversas com Vida, Económico, Portugal, Jan 24, 2015 (in portuguese)
• TV interview for Montra do Lilau, TDM, Macau, China, April 2, 2014 (in portuguese)
• Ponto Final, Macau, China, interview by Claudia Aranda, March 28, 2014 (in portuguese)
• Hoje Macau, interview by José Mendes (in portuguese), Jan 17, 2014
• Great Design, July 2012
• Hoje Macau, July 18, 2011
• Jornal de Notícias, July 2, 2011
• Computer Arts, January 2011
• Interview for XFuns Magazine, Taiwan, December 2009
• Há Conversa, com Isabel Angelino, RTP África, 2009 (?)
• Interview for Guia da Noite, by Rodrigo Cortez, 2008 (?)
• Magazine T, Novembro 2008
• Radio Universidade de Coimbra, Santos da Casa, 11.02.2008 (19.00h)
• RTP2, Câmara Clara, by Paula Moura Pinheiro, 14.10.2007 (22.30h)
• RTP2, Por Outro Lado, by Ana Sousa Dias, 09.10.2007 (23.30h)
• Antena 1, Histórias e Músicas, por Jorge Afonso, 05.10.2007 (00.12h)
• SIC Notícias, Páginas Soltas, por Bárbara Guimarães, 10.7.2007 (20.45h)
• Radio Radar, 8.7.2007 (12.00h) e 9.7.2007 (19.00h)
• 3x3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration (USA), por Luís Lázaro, Abril de 2007
• Radio Clube Português, 30.4.2007
• Expresso (Única), by Alexandra Carita, 14.4.2007
• Diário de Notícias (DN Magazine), by Ricardo Rodrigues, 2007
• Selecções do Reader’s Digest, by Anabela Mota Ribeiro, 2006
• Alice, 2005
• Jornal de Letras, 1997
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AWARDS AND HONOURS
2021
• Award of Excellence, Communication Arts 62nd Illustration Annual Competition, “We Can’t Breathe”. Of the 4,074 entries, only 128 were accepted, representing the work of 121 artists.
• Award of Excellence, Communication Arts 62nd Illustration Annual Competition, “NBA Against Police Violence”. Of the 4,074 entries, only 128 were accepted, representing the work of 121 artists.
• Shortlist finalist at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 58th edition, “A Menina com os Olhos Ocupados”. 226 illustrators were selected for the shortlist, from 3,235 submissions from 68 countries.
2020
• Award of Excellence at the European Newspaper Awards, Cover and Coverstory category , Weekly Newspaper, to the “#ÓdioNão” cover for Expresso, illustration André Carrilho, art direction Marco Grieco
• Honorable mention at the World Press Cartoon, “Boris Johnson”
• BRONZE MEDAL at 3x3 Pro Show, Annual 17, Editorial Conceptual category, “Past and Future”
• Merit Award at 3x3 Pro Show, Annual 17, Book Cover category, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr - Portuguese edition
• Merit Award at 3x3 Pro Show, Annual 17, Magazine Cover category, Scorsese & Tarantino
• Honorable Mention at 3x3 Pro Show, Annual 17, Editorial Conceptual category, “Europe, 30 Years After The Wall”
• Winning entry at the American Illustration 39, Portrait category, “Hugh Grant’s Very English Comeback”
• Winning entry at the American Illustration 39, Book series category, “Rear Window-What the Stars Have to Say”
• Illustrator of the Cover of The Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards 2020, awarded to the New Statesman cover “We Can’t Breathe”, Art Directed by Erica Weathers
• Selected Winner at the Communication Arts Annual Competition, Book Series category (covers), “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr - Portuguese edition”
• GOLD MEDAL at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, Editorial Single Image category, “NBA against police violence”
• GOLD MEDAL at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, Book Series category, “The Girl with the Occupied Eyes”
• Wining entry at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, Editorial Single Image category, “Systemic Racism”
• Wining entry at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, Editorial Single Image category, “We Can't Breathe”
• Wining entry at the Society of Illustrators 63 Annual Competition, Editorial Series category (covers), “Lisbon, Alive with Solidarity”.
• Illustrator of the winner of a BRONZE MEDAL, Prémios ÑH, Cover Design category, won by Art Director Sónia Matos, with a Público newspaper cover with the illustration “Covid-19, Perspectivas para o Outono”
2019
• Selected winner, Latin American Ilustración 8, “Protecting Traditions (Bullfight)”
• Selected for the LAI8 LOS DIEZ Winner Collection, sponsored by Epson
• Winning entry at the American Illustration 38, Portrait category, “Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You and Trevor Jackson in Superfly”
• Winning entry at the American Illustration 38, Editorial category, “Playtime in Ghouta, Syria”
2018
• DISTINGUISHED MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Books Category, for “Marquise of Alorna - Dear Leonor”
• MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Editorial category, “Trump's Worldview”
• MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Editorial category, Systemic Racism,
• MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Editorial category, Merkel vs Trump,
• MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Editorial Portrait category, “Emma Stone and Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes”
• MERIT AWARD at the 3x3 ProShow No15, Editorial category, Gun Addiction
• Winning Entry at the American Illustration 37 annual, “Trump vs Monroe” (Vanity Fair)
• Winning Entry at the American Illustration 37 annual, “To Eat and Drink-Blood Sugar”
• Winning Entry at the American Illustration 37 annual, “To Eat and Drink-About Her and Her Memories” (Granta port);
• Winning Entry at the American Illustration 37 annual, “Emma Stone and Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes” (LA Magazine)
• Winning Entry at the American Illustration 37 annual, “Merkel vs Trump” (DN)
• Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards with the editorial cartoon “Misguided Faith”. Of the 3300 entries submitted, only 30 were selected.
• Award of Excellence, Communication Arts 2018 Illustration Annual, Editorial category, “Trump’s Worldview”. Of the 4390 entries submitted, only 158 were selected
• Award of Excellence, Communication Arts 2018 Illustration Annual, Books category, “Marquise of Alorna - Dear Leonor”. Of the 4390 entries submitted, only 158 were selected
2017
• Four Merit (9/11 15 years, The World in 2017, Muhammad Ali, Iggy Pop) and one Honorable Mention (Wilderness) at the 3x3 Pro Show No14, in the categories of Editorial-Portrait, Editorial.
• Cover illustration for Diário de Notícias “9/11, 15 Years”, Award for Best Editorial Design at the Prémios M&P, Portugal.
• Award of excellence at Communication Arts 2017 Illustration Annual, with the caricature Muhammad Ali
2016
• Three Merit (Mediterranean Sea, Baltimore and Colin Farrell) and three Honorable Mentions (Construction, Bill Maher, Vanity Fair Oscar Mural) at the 3x3 Pro Show No13, in the categories of Editorial-Portrait, Editorial and Comics/Cartoon.
• Three selected entries at the American Illustration 35
• Silver Award at the Comic and Cartoon Art Annual, Society of Illustrators, with the cartoon “Mediterranean Sea”
• Award of Excellence at the Communication Arts 2016 Illustration Annual, with the editorial cartoon “Baltimore”
2015
• Bronze medal at the 3x3 Pro Show No 12 with the cartoon “Ebola” in the Comic/Cartoons category
• Merit at the 3x3 Pro Show No 12 with the Vanity Fair’s New Establishment illustration in the Editorial:Portraits category
• Honorable Mention at the 3x3 Pro Show No12 with the cartoon “Ebola: Panic of Contagion” in the Comic/Cartoons category
• Grand Prize at the World Press Cartoon with the cartoon “Ebola”
• Two winning entires to the American Illustration 34 annual award book with the portraits of “Jane Goodall” (Departures Magazine) and “Pope Francis & Kanye West” (Vanity Fair)
• Illustrations for covers and pages of The Independent on Sunday, awarded at the European Newspaper Awards
2014
• Illustration for a spread in The Independent on Sunday that won an Award of Excelence at the Best of News Design Competition, SND 35, in the Feature Design Pages category, art director Colin Wilson and deputy art director Sarah Morley.
• Cover illustration and lettering for Volta ao Mundo, Award for Best Magazine Cover at the Prémios M&P, Portugal.
• First Prize at the Nelson Mandela Special Caricature Award, Porto Cartoon 2014.
• Silver Medal Award, in the Single Image Category, at the Annual Comic and Cartoon Art Competition, Society of Illustrators, USA, with the cartoon “Mandela”.
2013
• Gold Medal at the 3×3 Pro Show, Comics/Cartoon category, with the illustration Pigs vs PIIGS
• Merit Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Animation category, with the animation Euro Snail
• Merit Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Comics/Cartoon category, with the cartoon “ Freedom of Speech”.
• Merit Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Editorial-Conceptual category, with the illustration “ Obamacare vs Supreme Court”.
• Merits Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Editorial-Portraits category, with portrait of Hugh Laurie
• Merits Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Editorial-Portraits category, with portrait of Rowan Atkinson
• Merits Award at the 3×3 Pro Show, Editorial-Portraits category, with portraits of Lena Durham and Paul Ryan
• Merits Awards at the 3×3 Pro Show, Editorial-Portraits category, with portrait of Public Enemy.
2012
• Selected for the American Illustration 31 book, with the illustration Lady Gaga vs Beyoncé (The New Yorker).
2011
• Grand Prize by the Prémio Stuart de Desenho de Imprensa, 2011, with the cartoon “Wikileaks”
• Selected to the 3x3 Pro Show (New York).
• Honorable Mention at World Press Cartoon 2011, with the caricature “Oilbama”, published in New York Magazine, June 7, 2010.
2010
• California Reading Association’s Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award, Silver Honor, to You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! (2009) by Jonah Winter and illustrated by André Carrilho; Schwartz & Wade Books.
• Award of Excelence, by the Society for News Design, 32nd Edition, for the caricature “Andy Murray and Roger Federer”, published in The Independent on Sunday.
2009
• Edição Ler - Booktailors Award, to the Book Vírus da Vida, by JP Simões, illustrated by André Carrilho, Sextante Editora, 2009
2008
• Honourable Mention of Caricature at World Press Cartoon, with the caricature Bush Does Latin-America
• Award of Excelence in the category of Illustration Single, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA), 29th edition, with the caricature Britney Spears published in La Luna de Metropoli, El Mundo.
• Award of Excellence in the category of Illustration Single, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA), 29th edition, with the caricature John Travolta in Hair published in La Luna de Metropoli, El Mundo.
• Illustrator of the Award of Excellence in the category of Magazines Cover Design, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA) to the La Luna de Metropoli cover that features the illustration John Travolta in Hair, art director Rodrigo Sanchez and design Director Carmelo Caderot.
2007
• Award of Excelence in the category of Illustration Individual Portfolio, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA), 28th edition. Award given to the work published in Diário de Notícias in 2006.
• Illustrator of the Award of Excelence in the category 03Af News Design/Page(s) A-Section/Tabloid 49,999 and under, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA), 28th edition, with the illustration Sócrates and the Budget.
• Award of Excelence in the Magazines Cover design category, awarded by the Society for News Design (EUA), 28th edition, with the illustration Intellectuals, Diário de Notícias, art director Henrique Cayatte.
• Revelation Award by the Festival de Cinema da Covilhã to the short animated movie Dinner in Lisbon.
• Best Movie Award and Best Director Award given by the audience of Festival de Cinema da Covilhã to the short animated movie Dinner in Lisbon.
• Honorable Mention at Caminhos do Cinema Português festival, in Coimbra, to the short animated movie Dinner in Lisbon.
• Best Portuguese Movie Award given by FICA-Festival Internacional de Cinema do Algarve to the short animated movie Dinner in Lisbon.
2006
• 2nd Prize at World Press Cartoon – Sintra 2006, in the category of Caricature.
• Featured in the anual catalog American Illustration 25, with work done for Harper's magazine (USA). Of 6500 entries, 280 were selected.
• Grand Prize of Press Illustration at the Prémio Stuart de Desenho de Imprensa organized by El Corte Inglés and Casa da Imprensa, Portugal.
• Selection of the book Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack, illustrated by André Carrilho, to the Original Art Show of the Society of Illustrators (New York City, USA)
• Illustration Award at the Eight European Newspaper Award, for the body of work published in Diário de Notícias in 2006.
• Illustrations for the pages awarded with a Section Front Pages Award at the Eight European Newspaper Award, for the Independent on Sunday.
2005
• 3rd Prize at World Press Cartoon – Sintra 2005, in the category of Caricature.
• Award of Excelence in the category of Illustration Individual Portfolio by the Society for News Design (EUA), 26th edition, for the illustration work developed for The New York Times in 2004.
• Award of Excelence in the category of Illustration, by the Society for News Design / Spain to the illustration “Santana Plays Cards” published in Expresso.
2003
• Zé Pacóvio e Grilinho Trophy- best drawn portuguese comic book, awarded by the Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada da Amadora 2003 (14th edition) to the comic book Em Lume Brando, published by Polvo in 2002.
• Award of Best Portuguese Comic Book by the Sobreda BD 2003 festival, to the comic book Em Lume Brando.
2002
• 1st Prize of Caricature at the XVI Salão Nacional Humor de Imprensa – Oeiras 2002, Portugal.
• 3rd Prize of Caricature ex-aequo at the IV PortoCartoon-World Festival, Portugal.
• Gold Award in the category of Illustration Portfolio, by the Society for News Design (EUA), 23rd edition. Award given to the work published in Público, in 2001.
• Award of Excelence in the category of Illustration Single by the Society for News Design (EUA) 23rd edition. Award given to the cover illustration Jazz in Paris, in Mil Folhas supplement, Público.
2001
• 1st Prize of Caricature at XV Salão Nacional Humor de Imprensa – Oeiras 2001, Portugal.
1999
• Grand Prize at the XIII Salão Nacional Humor de Imprensa – Oeiras ’99, Portugal.
1998
• 1st Prize Villa Madrid-Historieta Comic at the competition Jovenes Criadores Ibero-Americanos organized by the Alcaldia Mayor de Madrid, Spain.
• 1st Prize of Caricature at the XII Salão Nacional Humor de Imprensa – Oeiras ’98, Portugal.
1997
• Honorable Mention at the Mostra de Jovens Criadores ’97, in the Comics category.