Andrea Crespi originally graduated in industrial product design from the European Institute of Design in Milan. Soon thereafter, he chose to focus on communication and visual arts.

Crespi's work is the product of a continuous investigation into different media and themes. His subject matter includes, but is not limited to, optical illusion, social transformation, and the digital revolution. The artist's research identifies art as an instrument of perception and a manner of analyzing the concept of truth through a search for beauty, a search which sometimes manifests in an intimate, almost erotic, portrait. His subjects pose a re-imagination of cultural icons, which thus take on a function of narration on everyday reality. By capturing the fluidity of memory, each work redefines itself through the filter of contemporaneity, and thus becomes a witness to our time.

The artist’s personal interpretation of contemporary cultural changes happening around us often see him involved in various charity and solidarity initiatives. Andrea Crespi currently lives and works between Lugano and Milan, Italy.