Andrea Antinori lives in Bologna (Italy) and studied Graphic Design and illustration at ISIA, in Urbino, and at Escola Massana, in Barcelona. Since 2013, Andrea collaborates as an illustrator with Italian and foreign publishing houses.
His drawings for A book about whales, from 2016, are exhibited at Mambo Museum in Bologna. In 2020 and 2017, he was selected for the illustrators exhibition at Bologna Children's Book Fair; In 2017, he won the Italian Andersen Award for “6/9 years old best book”, together with Biancoenero Edizioni and author Vincent Cuvellierfor, and in 2019 the “Best International Illustrated Book” award at Shanghai Book Fair for his book La grande battaglia.