Biography

Aldo Luongo was born to Italian parents and raised in Argentina. Although in his youth he experimented with piano as well as painting, his real love was for playing soccer. So much so that after he finished schooling at the Academy of Fine Art in Buenos Aires, he played professional soccer for the New York Cosmos. Aldo Luongo later went on to work for a reputable jewelry company as a designer.

It wasn't long thereafter that he returned to painting.  Painting is Luongo's true passion and he has been known to have said, Painting and Soccer are like walking to me, so natural.

Once reviewed as a Post-Impressionist by the New York Times, Luongo admits that at first he feat as if he where be categorized and this bothered him. He then realized that many the painters he most admired were Impressionists he also understood the genuineness of the praise. Every artist adapts the best qualities of his favorite artists, but I m always conscious of capturing bits of life, of reality, of situations, of people. It s my space in time.

Aldo Luongo has earned both critical praise and celebrity collectors. Edward G. Robinson, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Costner, Dionne Warwick, Bill Cosby, Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, and Rob Reiner, to name a few, have been touched by Aldo’s imagery.

In addition, Aldo was named official artist for The Olympic Committee at the 1988 Summer Games, has a commissioned work which is displayed in The Kennedy Museum in Boston, two years in a row was selected to participate in The White House Easter Egg Hunt, where his painted "eggs" are now on display at the world-renowned Smithsonian Museum.

Museum Exhibitions

Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, California
Juarez Museum, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
John F. Kennedy Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
American Sport Art Museum and Archives, Daphne, Alabama
Olympic Village Collection, Colorado Springs, Colorado