Sandro Cocco was born in Antwerp in 1973 in Belgium from a Belgian mother and an Italian father. He studied painting at the Charles the Great academy in Antwerp, The Royal Academy and Saint-Luke in Ghent. He uses in addition to traditional painting materials such as watercolor, oil and acrylic various other forms of expression such as écriture automatique, amorphous ink drawings, sculpture, installation, video, analog and digital photo collage.