Alberto Bertoldi was born in 1955 in Luserna San Giovanni, in the Turin area of Italy. The rugged mountain landscape that surrounded him during his formative years-first in Canavese, then in the Piacentino region-would mark his character, and nature would forever become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his expression through painting, which he approached at a very young age thanks to his father, also an amateur painter.
He attended technical schools but at the same time as a boy he began to exhibit and his activity in painting was constant. He got to know the surrealist Leone Gariano, of whom he admired above all the references to classical painting; it was thanks to him that, in 1973, his first solo exhibition was set up. These are years of curiosity and enthusiasm and his research focuses on the great season of Surrealism, which he feels is suitable to his expressive drive where he already uses the elements of landscape in a symbolic key.

Bertoldi married at a young age and had a son and a daughter ; family commitments led him to a partial departure from practical work, but it was precisely this, driven by a profound motivation, that enabled and induced him to deepen the cultural and technical foundations of what would not many years later become his life’s work. Precisely in those years he would develop a fascination for “classical” painting to which he would devote much study.
Around the age of 33, Bertoldi approached “making” again. , but at first the intent was no longer that of expression, rather that of confronting the classical models he loved most , from Durer to Bosch , from Rembrandt to Ruisdael , from Turner to Constable, from Ingres to Courbet, from Cole to Bierstadt, to name but a few, in a sort of hybridization between contemporary inspiration and the stylistic features of his models.
At 37, he left technical work and devoted himself completely to painting. It is a radical and risky decision but it is an urgency he feels can no longer be procrastinated , a challenge with and for himself and the results will not be long in coming.

In the early 1990s, he opened a studio in Piacenza; experimentation followed and the expressive code of his landscapes was strongly delineated; collaboration with the Braga Art Gallery began.
In 1996 the first exhibition of this new season, with catalog edited by Stefano Fugazza. Protagonists of his canvases, to the point of limiting the space to the earthly horizon, are the clouds. Years of intense activity begin. He collaborates with the Bugno Art Gallery in Venice, and in ’98 the Braga Gallery in Piacenza dedicates a large solo show to him, with catalog edited by Gianfranco Bruno. In 98 and 99 he obtained two important prizes at the international EtruriaArte exhibition.
In January 2000 Bugno Art Gallery dedicated an extensive solo exhibition to him. The catalog, entitled L’altrove impossibile, is edited by Flavio Arensi. The same year, in Vienna, UN Ambassador Gerti Tauchhammer organized the event “Society Redaktionsfest,” and Bertoldi’s works found space in a major exhibition with artist Ernst Fuchs.
Exhibition activity, with catalogs and presentations edited by Domenico Montalto, Agostino De Rosa, Alberto Agazzani, and Giorgio Soavi, increases throughout Italy. Bertoldi also participates in conferences, the most important of them at the IUAV University of Venice. At the same time his collaboration with the organization Art’è intensifies, for which he works exclusively until 2005.

The year 2006 is characterized by a large anthological exhibition, curated by Beatrice Buscaroli, at the Villa Breda Museum, in Padua. Several exhibitions followed: a solo show at the Great Art Fair in London, an anthological exhibition at the Museum-Foundation “Un Paese,” with the realization of an important monograph (interventions by Ruggero Pierantoni, Margonari and Giulio Mozzi).
Since 2010 his activity has been mainly focused on collaboration with the Galerie de l’Europe in Paris. He also exhibits at the Artery Gallery in Edinburgh and the Hermitage Gallery in Dallas.
In 2011 he participated in the Venice Biennale, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, as part of the Emilia Romagna regional section.
Subsequently resumed an intense exhibition activity also in Italy where , in his city he periodically exhibits and collaborates permanently with the Gallery of Visions.
In 2013, invited as part of the Illusion and RéalitésSensible exhibition, he exhibited a selection of 20 works at the Salon de l’Academie du Vernet in Vicy.
In 2015 the major exhibition “Clouds” at Moatti masterscontemporary in London and an exhibition event at Banca Profilo in Reggio Emilia.
In 2016 Peter Marino’s studio (NYC) commissions him a large work (c.ca 14sqm) for Christian Dior’s new show room, New Bond street London. In the same year Museo Alberoni in Piacenza dedicates him an important anthological exhibition curated by Umberto Fornasari, “Sono le nuvole” is also the title of the catalog that, full of many contributions dedicated to the museum, presents the exhibition with an introduction by Carlo Francou.
Lately Bertoldi has been continuing his exhibition activities in private galleries, fairs and specialized exhibitions, as well as at museums foundations and institutional venues.