Born in 1960, Fabio Hurtado is a Spanish-Italian artist and photographer and is a graduate of the Fine Art School (Complutense University, Madrid). After three years of teaching, he started painting professionally in 1988. From that moment, his presence in international art circles has been constant.

He was awarded membership of the Rome Academy of Modern Art in 1996 and besides other numerous prizes, Her Majesty Queen Sophia of Spain presented him with a Medal of Honour at the BMW Painting Awards. He was invited to participate in an exhibition celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Spanish Constitution.

Furthermore a stamp collection was issued featuring six of his paintings with the subject "The women and reading". He was interviewed in several tv cultural magazines in Canal+, Antena3 or Cosmopolitan tv. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of both The Ulster Museum in Belfast (Ireland) and the National Museum of Fine Arts, La Valletta (Malta). The Finantial Times Telecom Magazine and a special edition of La Vanguardia newspaper featured Fabio Hurtado's work as the front cover. He frequently collaborates with non-profit organizations in Europe and Asia.

Two retrospective exhibitions took place between 2017 and 2018 at Civica Galleria di Palazzo Rocca in Chiavari (Italy) and Museo Casa de Polo (Villarreal) Spain. Some of his new series will illustrate the brochures of Classical Music Festival in Teatros del Canal (Madrid -Spain) during 2021.