Piero Dorazio is one of the most prominent figures in the post-war Italian art scene. Born in Rome in 1927, he began his artistic career there and was a founding member of the Forma 1 group. In the late 1940s, he traveled through Europe, where he came into contact with the international avant-garde movement.

He was a professor at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, which he helped establish in the early 1960s. Due to his rich personal relationships with many American artists, Dorazio maintained a continuous transatlantic exchange, and his work is represented in several public and private collections, including MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; and The New York University Art Collection – Grey Art Museum, among others.

His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in major museums and private collections worldwide, such as the Tate in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Venice Biennale, and Documenta 2 in Kassel. He was awarded the Prix Kandinsky and named a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He passed away in Perugia in 2005.