Enrique Breccia was born in Buenos Aires in 1945.
In 1967 he painted the fresco for the Fundación Cardiológica Pombo de Rodríguez in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, he produced works in xylography, oil, gouache and watercolour. He demonstrated his talent at a very young age, drawing in 1968, La vida del Che, a biography of Ernesto Che Guevara written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and translated in eight countries.
In 1970 he painted the fresco of the French hospital in Buenos Aires.
From 1972 to 1976 he worked for the English publishing house Fleetway, drawing the comic strip Spy 13 under a pseudonym. In 1975 he came to Italy for the first time as a guest at the Lucca Comics Festival: this marked the beginning of his collaboration with the Italian magazines “Linus” and “Alter Linus”, for which he drew stories such as La Guerre della Pampa and El Amigo, based on his own texts, and Algeria 1959, based on a script by the Argentine Norberto Buscaglia.
In 1977 he began his production of large oil paintings (the series The Monkeys).
Enrique Breccia’s second participation in the Lucca Comics Festival was in 1980. From 1976 to 1983, Alvar Mayor, his best-known character, and El Peregrino de la Estrellas (The Pilgrim of the Stars) were published in Italy, as well as the surreal Los Viajes de Marco Mono and El Reino Azul, based on scripts by Carlos Trillo. In 1984 he wrote and drew El Cazador del Tiempo (The Time Hunter) and El Sueñero (The Dream Collector) for the magazine “Fierro”, the latter being considered by the author to be his most personal work, in which, in an indefinite period of time, fantasy and mythological characters live out an adventure of a satirical-humorous nature containing references to popular traditions and duly revisited Argentine political figures. In 2006, El Sueñero. 20 anni dopo (The Dream Collector, 20 years later) was published.
In 1985 Enrique Breccia wrote the series Metrocarguero, drawn by Domingo Mandrafina and also published in the magazine “Fierro”. He also continued to produce oil paintings with the series Women on the Beach and Sharks.
It is not possible to separate the artistic vein in Enrique Breccia’s life from the political and social activism that has lasted a lifetime. In 2003, he worked as deputy mayor for the Peronist Party in General Alvarado, one of the municipalities of the Province of Buenos Aires, writing the government programme and defining a plan for social development in favour of the poorest class of the district. In 2009, the municipality of General Alvarado named him “Embajador Cultural del Distrito” for his contribution to national culture. In the same year, Breccia held a conference at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, in Argentina. From 2007 to 2009, he lived and worked in New York.
Enrique Breccia has been invited for meetings, exhibitions and by institutions such as the Comics and Illustrations Biennial of La Coruña in 2004 (Spain), the Comicon of San Diego (2005), the Comics and Illustrations Biennial of Barcelona (2006), New York Comicon, Paris Book Fair, Universidad de Alicante-Valencia (2008), Lucca Comics Festival, Zagreb Comics Biennale, Turin Comics Exhibition and Naples Comicon (2012). In 2011 he moved to Italy.
Since 2014 he has been contributing to the Schollas Ocurrentes project, promoted by Pope Francis, which combines technology, art and sport to foster social integration, the culture of encounter and the development of the most needy schools worldwide, regardless of race, creed or culture.
In 2016 the publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore published the issue 31 of “Special Tex”, entitled Capitan Jack, 224 plates drawn by Breccia from texts by Tito Faraci.
In 2017 he illustrated for the Spanish publishing house El Zorro Rojo the novel In the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Since 2012, Enrique Breccia has lived in Italy.
In 2021, he illustrated “Golgotha” for the publishing house Delcourt Soleil and the Tex Willer title “Snakeman,” a special color edition for Sergio Bonelli Editore.
In 2022, he created “Journey to Venice” with a screenplay by Barbara Pilon.
In the years 2023-2025, he illustrated Golgotha 2 for the publishing house Delcourt Soleil.
AWARDS
1964 – Gold Medal of the daily newspaper “Clarin” at the XII Salone dell’Asociación de Dibujantes de la Argentina.
1993 – “Pléyade” Prize for the best graphic production of the year (Argentina).
2011 – “Gran Guinigi” (Lucca Comics Festival) as Master of Comics
2012 – “Konex” Award for the best illustrator of the year (Argentina).
HABILITATIONS
1966/1971 – Instituto de Arte (IDA) of Buenos Aires.
2001/2004 – Academia San Martín (Mar del Plata).
2012 – Scuola Internazionale di Comics of Rome – Workshop of the Scuola Internazionale di Comics of Naples – Meeting with the students of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples.
2014 – Master of Comics for the Scuola Internazionale di Comics of Jesi.
EXHIBITIONS
1994 – Rocca Paolina, Perugia.
2000 – Casa Victoria Museum (Mar del Plata, Argentina).
2000 – Collective Galleria Exit, New York (exhibition of a painting on the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, later acquired by the US Library of Congress).
2001 – Exhibition of paintings and graphic works for the Museo del Mar (Mar del Plata, Argentina).
2003 – Galleria Doppia V (Lugano).
2005 – Galleria Víctor Saavedra (Barcelona).
2008 – Galleria Poet’s Den (New York). – Charlotte Dufaux (France).
2010 – “All Breccia” of the Castagnino Museum in Mar del Plata (Argentina).
2013 – CArt Gallery (Rome) with a special edition of El Sueñero 20 anni dopo.
2014 – “Enrique Breccia, the other me”, Palazzo Pergoli (Falconara Marittima).
2016 – “Tex Willer in Spoleto. The borders of Enrique Breccia”, Rocca Albornoziana (Spoleto).
2025 – Treviso – Fondazione Benetton – Enrique Breccia l’arte di plasmare il segno.
2025 – Lucca comics & games – Palazzo Guinigi – Hola Tex!