Héctor Giuffré was born in Buenos Aires on August 5, 1944.

He began studying drawing at 7 years old. Driven by Benito Quinquela Martín, whom he met at age 12 on a school outing, he began taking painting classes in San Telmo with teacher Mateo Mollo. Giuffré has attended his workshop daily for 6 years.

He attends the free workshops of the Estímulo de Bellas Artes Association, studying and painting in ink washes with the teacher Jiro Mizutani. He is part of the courses at the “Ernesto de la Cárcova” Higher School of Fine Arts and studies Economics at the University of Buenos Aires and Philosophy at the University of Salvador.

He has exhibited regularly since 1964. He published the realist manifestos titled “Of the intimate structure of the real” (1968), “Manifesto of free painters” (1973), “Towards a structural realism” (1975), “Guidelines of structural realism ” (1976), “The realism in which I believe” (1976), “Structural realism as the possibility of being of painting” (1978) and “Realist and Relational Manifesto” (1984), in which he establishes his position within art .

He participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions both in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Medellín, New York, Mexico City. His works are part of a large number of museums and public collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the “Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez” Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of the Province of Santa Fé, the Art Museum of the National Library of Beirut, The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), the Unilever Collection in London.

In the nineties he settled in Chicago, Illinois (USA), the city where he died on September 26, 2018.