Saverio Tonoli was born in Lucca, Italy. He attended the Fine Arts Academy of Brera, Milan and the Fine Arts Academy in Salamanca. He crosses different techniques in his painting practice such as ink brushwork, fresco techniques and processes on different papers. He grew up in the darkroom where he started observing the behaviours of liquids and chemicals on images, which he then translated over the years into painting. He currently works in Berlin, Germany and Taipei, Taiwan.