Lucio Munoz was born in 1929 in Madrid. Growing up in a low-class family, he discovers his passion for the art when he visits the "Museo del Prado", at the age of 13. Since that moment he starts taking classes with Eduardo Navarro and Eduardo Peña.
In 1949 he ingresses in the "Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando" in Madrid, were he comes to know the artists Antonio Lopez and Julio Hernandez, and since that moment they became friends for life. During these years, he is taught by the artist Chicharro, who has an enormous influence on his style by showing Muñoz to avoid all the typical conventionalisms of Spain during the war and post-war period.
In 1953 he leaves Spain to visit France, England and Italy, and becomes a great impression by visiting all its museums. In 1955 he becomes a scholarship from the French Government, were he stays for a year, and takes the chance to know all the Spanish vanguard.
He returns to Spain after a year, and since 1949 he starts to show his works in the most important exhibitions of Spanish Painting around the world; Like in 1960 the Biennial of Venice, the Documenta in Cassel, or the Gallery Staempfli in N.Y City. In 1962, he designs an enormous mural (620 m2) in the Aranzazu Basilica in Spain.
In 1988 the "Museo Reina Sofia" shows a retrospective of his works that also travels to Barcelona, Bilbao, Lisbon and Santiago.
During the year 1995 he realizes two murals for the European Community Building in Brussels. Between 1989 and 1991 "Lerner and Lerner", in Madrid and "Rizzoli" in N.Y edited his first monograph.
During his life he has become several awards like the "Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas " in 1983, or the Gold Medal Award in Bellas Artes in 1993.
