Andrea Chisesi was born in Rome in 1972. He moved to Milan, where he attended the Liceo artistico and the Politecnico.
In 1998 in Porta Venezia, he opened ‘Andrea Chisesi photographer’, a studio where he worked mainly on photography and began to perfect the technique that he himself would define as ‘fusion’ between painting and photography.
From 1998 to 2008, portrait photography will be the artist’s main activity, leading him to publish in prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Vanity fair, Max, Rolling Stone and to portray in his studio and on film sets personalities including actors, writers, world-famous musicians such as Harvey Keitel, Robbie Wiliams, Ken Follet, Steven Tyler and many others. In spite of his successes in the field of photography, Andrea Chisesi unceasingly paints his ‘Fusions’ between painting and photography, which are a great success and a succession of solo exhibitions affirm his talent.
In 2009, the well-known Rosenberg Gallery exhibited his works and included him in its auction catalogues.
In 2010, Zucchi, a well-known Italian textile brand, invited him to participate in an exhibition dedicated to the brand’s antique moulds, an experience that was repeated in 2012.
From this point on, Andrea Chisesi is present in the most important Italian exhibitions, including the 2011 Venice Biennale. His collection ‘Progetto Icone’ Santi armati e tatuati, realised in 2011 in collaboration with Nicolai Linin, was noticed by curator Martina Mazzotta who invited him to the Milan Triennale in 2012.
In the same year, Andrea Chisesi left photography to devote himself completely to painting and opened his own painting studio in Sicily in Syracuse.
Also in 2012, his first exhibition in Syracuse dedicated to ‘Fuochi d’Artificio’ (Fireworks), turns out to be the artist’s most introspective collection dedicated to his childhood and the memory of Sicilian folklore, with works representing the dynamism of the explosions and colours of fireworks, his mandala.
In 2013, he began international exhibitions in various cities: Miami, Zurich, Lugano, London.
In the same year he opened his atelier on the island of Ortigia, where he now works and resides.

Since 2014 his one-man shows have been hosted in institutional buildings in the most important cities in Italy; among them Cefalù in 2014 with the collection ‘Anime di Sicilia’ dedicated to Sicily, the place of his childhood spent with his father from Palermo; Rome in 2016 with the collection ‘4 levels’ a retrospective on his technique; in 2017 he became part of Luciano Benetton’s ‘Imago Mundi’ collection; in 2018 the exhibition at Castel Dell’Ovo ‘Street Home’ offers an insight into the culture of Naples and its myths.
At the Reggia di Caserta, the collection presented in 2019 entitled ‘Saligia’; in the same year he was awarded as ‘Excellence in Syracuse’ thanks to the ‘Air Art’ project with the following motivation: ‘the artist has installed works of art in the suburbs of the city as well as in the historic centre to create a temporary museum
under the open sky’.
As part of the Festival Nostos, dedicated to the traveller, again in 2019 Andrea Chisesi became the official artist of the prize donated to Giordano Bruno Guerri, who invited him to exhibit at the Vittoriale degli Italiani in 2021.
Again in 2019, he enters the collection of the Sheikh of Qatar who visits his atelier.
Nel 2020 Andrea Chisesi è stato invitato ad esporre presso l’istituto Italiano di Cultura di Monaco di Baviera con la collezione dedicata a Napoli, “Street Home”; infine nell’estate del 2020 le sue opere sono state protagoniste della mostra “Pietre della memoria, omaggio al Parente” nella Villa La Versiliana di Marina di Pietrasanta.
Nel settembre dello stesso anno, le sue opere sono protagoniste di “Tempora Vatis”, la mostra dedicata a Gabriele d’Annunzio presso il Vittoriale degli Italiani a Gardone Riviera conclusa nel settembre del 2021.
Dal giugno 2021 fino al gennaio 2022 ha esposto le sue opere a “Materiarte temporary art gallery” a Ortigia, Siracusa.
Nel marzo 2022 ha aperto la nuova “Andrea Chisesi Art Gallery” a Pietrasanta (LU), che si aggiunge all’atelier di Ortigia, Siracusa.
Nel 2023 la collezione “Baciami” presso la Art Gallery di Materiarte, sold out al vernissage.