Rui Paes is a painter, illustrator and muralist born in Mozambique, residing in the UK. Paes completed a degree in Painting in 1981 at the Escola de Belas Artes do Porto and was awarded the Newcomers Prize at the Arús National Exhibition of Modern Art in 1982. He completed a Master of Arts in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1988, under a scholarship from The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) and a grant from the Beal Foundation, Boston (USA). He has had 13 solo exhibitions and has taken part in numerous group shows. His work is represented in Japan, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States.