Sandro Kopp, (b. 1978, Heidelberg, Germany; lives and works in Nairn, Scotland) started drawing and painting proficiently at a very young age and had his first solo exhibition when he was seven years old, and his second when he was fifteen. After graduating from Abiltur majoring in Fine Art and English, Kopp moved to New Zealand in 2000. The following three years were spent studying, painting, and exhibiting in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, where he lived in the creative collective, The Factory. Having left New Zealand in 2005, the next years were spent nomadically roaming around between Italy, New York, France, and the UK. Since 2009 he has been based in the Highlands of Scotland. Kopp has exhibited internationally, most recently at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2007; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2008; at the IST. FESTIVAL, Istanbul, Turkey in May 2011 and at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York in January 2012.