Andrea Tagliapietra was born in Murano, Italy on February 17, 1955. At the age of 14, he started working in a glass factory on Murano island, following the tradition of his father Erminio, at that time one of the most talented glass masters in Italy.

Since he was a boy, he worked hard as a glass factory server and attendant until finally becoming a glass master in 1979. In 1980, as he likes to say, he “fired up” his artistic sensitiveness. He started to create glass artworks that, as years went by, became popular and successful. It was thanks to their expressive autonomy, their style, and their formal and chromatic balance, that they were compared to those of the greater glass masters of the first half of the twentieth century.

In 1983, he started showing his work at Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation in Venice, where some of the greatest contemporary art masters artistically took their first steps. For Andrea Tagliapietra, it was the beginning of an exhibition path that took him to Vienna, Linz, Villach, Las Vegas and the prestigious Gallery of Sculpture in Palm Beach, to New York, Chicago, Bern and Tokyo, where a lot of his sculptures are now part of private collections.