After learning of his artistic ability at a young age, Lorenzo loved to sketch, creating drawings of people and native characters. His art education includes studies in Junior High, High School and College. In 1976, he enrolled at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico and received an Associate of Fine Arts Degree in 1978.He continued studies in two-dimensional design at the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta Georgia. He attended courses in Wildlife and Business Management at the Gila Pueblo College and the University of Phoenix in Arizona.
Doing research and utilizing information gathered from authors and pictorial archives of his people the Apache, he typically draws inspirational subjects and details from his own photography. His work has been displayed in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Illinois, California and Texas. International exposure of his artwork in 53 countries include Austria, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
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The highlight of his artistic career to date has been to have a couple of his pieces to hang in the same exhibition alongside the masterpieces of renowned Western artists: George Phippen, Ray Swanson, CM Russell, Frederick Remington, Olaf Weighorst, and Howard Terpning.
