Lorenzo was born in 1969 in Rome, Italy.
At the age of 16, he began his career as an illustrator and
a graphic designer for advertising agencies and small
publishers.
In those first few years, he soon realized that painting was
his true calling, and little by little he focused his
artistic interests entirely towards sci-fi, fantasy and
erotica.
The year 1995 marked the beginning of his career as a pin-up
artist: he painted his first cover for SKORPIO - the biggest
comics magazine in Italy:
since then, many of his magazine covers still appear every
year on Italian newsstands.
The public learned very quickly to recognize his style,
especially after his paintings were featured in Playboy and
Penthouse, in their respective Italian editions.
As his covers started to appear in Australia, South America
and Eastern Europe, the American market initially opened its
doors to Lorenzo in 1998.
That was the year that prompted Lorenzo to move to Los
Angeles, where he began his collaboration with Larry Flynt
Publications,
as well as many other publishers such as Avalanche, Aeg,
Sizzle, Fort Ross.
However, in Lorenzo's words, the "real big one" happened in
2000 when he became a cover artist for historical fantasy
comics magazine Heavy Metal.
Since then, dozens among covers, posters and calendars
followed that very special piece.
Tamara Bane Gallery and Lorenzo started to work together in
May 2002, just a couple of months preceding the world-wide
release of his first book by MG Publishing: “The Art of
Lorenzo Sperlonga”.
On the wings of that international success, MG soon
contacted him again to commission the double cover of the
premiere issue of Artcore,
the first periodical entirely dedicated to pin-up art.In the
past three years, Lorenzo Sperlonga took part to exhibitions
at Tamara Bane Gallery in Los Angeles and Echo Gallery in
Chicago.In 2004, RCI International started a new line of
hand-painted sculptures inspired by his masterpieces.
In 2006 Heavy Metal and Infinity present his new book
"Dirty Works".
Between 2006 and 2007 for 12 months Hustler Magazine
features Lorenzo’s Pin Up of the Month.
In 2008 his third book “Poison Apples” is published by Heavy
Metal.
and in 2013 his fourth book "Steampunk Dolls & Femme
Fatales" is also published by Heavy Metal.
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