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": 104 pages of his latest artwork.
Between 2006 and 2007 for 12 months Hustler
Magazine features Lorenzo’s Pin Up of the Month.
