Alex Lutfi R began to study seriously about fine art in STSRI-ASRI Yogyakarta in 1979 under the assistance of Fadjar Sidiq, Widayat, Nyoman Gunarso, Aming Prayitno, etc. It was quality and beauty of texture that Alex Lutfi was more interested in, therefore in a whole year he learned and painted on the beauty subject matter texture.

Some artworks were made by reasearch to tradition of "wayang rumput" which is toy among children and farmers in Java. He did his second exhibition at LIP Bandung in 1985.

1995 is the inspiring year for Alex Lutfi in painting with particular theme of pigs with tie. It was the "Orde Baru" (new order) when leaders and capitalists behaved corruptly and acted shamelessly. Both attitudes were popular in Indonesia. Rape, murder, human rights abuse, corruption and moral abuse are likely to be a routine and allowed activites by some part of Indonesia society. This social political phenomenon had pushed Alex Lutfi to create vulgar and obvious artworks as a criticism.

Alex Lutfi's paintings are the screenshots of various events in the New Order up to present days. He has received several awards such as Pratisara Affandi Adhi Karya 1982 and 1983.