Bruno Leti grew up in the environs of Rome, Italy, until the age of ten. His ‘second childhood’ evolved in central Victoria, before moving to Melbourne where he pursued studies in the arts at the University of Melbourne, R.M.I.T. Monash University and Melbourne Teachers College. He taught art for a number of years, before dedicating himself to full-time art-making.

Leti is represented in most state, regional and tertiary collections in Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, as well as the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC and other important collections in Germany, Italy, Britain and Japan.

Bruno Leti has won a number of major awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York, a State Library of Victoria Fellowship in Melbourne, and residencies at the Australian National University at Canberra, Grafica-Uno in Milan, the British School in Rome, and has been guest artist at a number of institutions.

He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.