Alberto Cilia was born on December 12th, 1969 in New York (USA). He moved to Ragusa at the age of nine.

He obtained a diploma in applied arts at the Art Institute of Comiso and then he attended the Academy Of Fine Arts in Catania, getting a diploma in 1992 with a thesis whose title was "Problems of Conservation and Restoration of the Architecture in Noto".

Later he taught drawing and painting in an independent school in Ragusa and collaborated with architects, in the field of the furnishing and in that of the restoration.