Sandro Kopp was born in 1978 in Heidelberg, Germany, of New Zealand and German descent. He started drawing and painting at a very young age and subsequently never even thought about getting a proper job. He had his first solo exhibition when he was seven years old, his second when he was fifteen.
Having grown up in Germany and then emigrated to New Zealand - his mother's homeland- in 2000, after graduating Abitur majoring in Fine Art and English.
The following three years were spent studying, painting and exhibiting in Wellington, New Zealand, where he lived in the creative collective The Factory.
Having left New Zealand in 2005, the next years where spent nomadically roaming around between Italy, New York, France and the UK.
Since 2009 he has been based in the Highlands of Scotland.
In recent years he has been working primarily on portraits painted from Skype conversations.

Some recent exhibitions include :

-June 2007, The National Portrait Gallery, London,  BP Awards 
-November 2007. REAL- Internationales Symposium figurativer Malerei. Heidelberg, Germany
-November 2007 Junge Kunst 69, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
-March 2008, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, BP Awards 
-April 2008,  Krauts Gallery: Creative Clash. Mannheim Castle, Germany
-May 2008. PRESENT. HP Garcia Gallery, New York
-March 2009, Krauts Gallery: Go Figure. Frankfurt, Germany
-October 2010. Not a still Frame, Brachfeld Gallery, Paris.
-November 2010 Artist Residency, TSKW, Florida
-December 2010 Krauts Gallery: Kunst/Halle, Heidelberg, Germany
-February 2011 Pixel+Paint+Time, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
-May 2011 Being with You, Liberatum Arts festival, Istanbul, Turkey
-November 2011 Krauts Projects: in/sights. Heidelberg, Germany
-January 2012 There You Are. Lehmann Maupin, New York