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After completing his studies in architecture, he published his first comics in the late 1970s and, in the early 1980s, co-founded the Valvoline artists’ collective with other authors. In 1984, his album Fuochi (Fires) was hailed as a major event in the world of comics and won numerous international awards.

While his work—from Incidenti (Incidents) to Stigmate (Stigmata), published in Italy by Einaudi, as well as Signor Spartaco (Mr. Spartacus), Doctor Nefasto, L’uomo alla finestra (The Man at the Window), and many other titles—evolves with a constant concern for coherence, it also reflects the eclecticism of an artist who continually seeks to explore new territories.

Today, his books are translated worldwide, and his drawings are published in magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, Le Monde, Das Magazin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Nouvel Observateur, Corriere della Sera, and La Repubblica, among others.

As a fashion illustrator, he interprets the designs of leading stylists in the pages of Vanity. In 2010, he created all the covers for the monthly magazine Domus.

He has also illustrated children’s books, from Pinocchio to Eugenio, which won the Grand Prix of Bratislava (one of the most prestigious awards in children’s publishing).

Lorenzo Mattotti is also renowned for his numerous posters, covers, and advertising campaigns, including the poster for the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, the Estate Romana, and several campaigns for the City of Paris, Aperol, and Kenzo.

Around forty solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, including retrospectives at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, and more recently in Milan at the Museo di Porta Romana, as well as in 2016 at the Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc in Landerneau.

Mattotti’s universe now moves freely across boundaries, blending comics, filmmaking, painting, and illustration.