Andrea Ventura, born in Milan, Italy, in 1968, moved to New York in 1991. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek and many other national and international newspapers, magazines and books. His awards include gold and silver medals from The Society of Illustrators for his portraits of Latrell Sprewell, Jorge Luis Borges and Glenn Gould and a gold medal at the Lead Awards 2010. Andrea Ventura lives in Brooklyn and Berlin, Germany.

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