Ugo Nespolo was born in Mosso (Biella), graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and graduated in Modern Literature. His debut in the Italian artistic panorama dates back to the Sixties, to Pop Art, to the conceptual and Poverist futures.

Never absolutely tied to one genre, his production is immediately characterized by an accentuated ironic, transgressive imprint, by a personal sense of fun that will always represent a sort of trademark.

In the Seventies Nespolo appropriated a second means of expression, cinema: in particular the experimental, artistic one. The actors are artist friends, from Lucio Fontana to Enrico Baj, to Michelangelo Pistoletto.
The Seventies represent a fundamental transition for Nespolo: he wins the Bolaffi prize (1974), creates the Museum (1975-'76), a ten meter long painting that marks the beginning of a never-exhausted vein of rereading-decomposition-reinvention of the art of others.