Born in New York, Art Venti studied at The School of Visual Arts, later relocating to Los Angeles where he lived and worked for more than three decades. The past ten years have been spent in the UK and in Florida. Venti has shown extensively both nationally and internationally. Favoring a complex surrealist aesthetic and colored pencils as a medium, he works primarily at large scale, painstakingly layering colors until they reach the depth and the richness he desires. Venti's largest works can take up to a year to create.