Stefano Mura Biography
Stefano Mura was born in Milan in 1971. After graduating from the artistic high school in 1989, he graduated in architectural design from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1997. Subsequently, he carried out a year of civil service at the Caritas of Milan in Quarto Oggiaro . In 1998, he started working as an architect.
By dedicating himself to artistic activities, drawing has become the common denominator of his work, both in the field of naturalistic drawing and comics. Stefano has portrayed many animals, including on commission, and in 2016 and 2017 he exhibited these works during the "Living with animals" event, organized in Casteggio by the Bussolera Branca Foundation.
In 2017, Stefano participated in the art collectives of the "RAINBOWie festival", organized by the Milanese artist and gallery owner Valentina Carrera and centered on the figure of David Bowie, one year after his death. In the same year, he began publishing comic stories as a screenwriter and illustrator on the titles "il Morto" and "Inkstory" by Menhir editions.
In September 2018, Stefano illustrated for Fiorina Edizioni the leporelli "La fanciulla Tartaruga", a fairy tale poem by Maria Grazia Insinga, and "Il ponte di Genova", about the tragedy of the Morandi bridge. In 2019, he then completed the preparation of his first graphic novel entitled "The Wrong Island", taken from the film of the same name by the independent director Giorgio Magarò and published in November of the same year.
