In 1964 he graduated from the High School in Teramo, and in the same year he moved to Rome, signing up at the University for a two-year course, which ended in 1966. During the 1970s he moved to Toronto in Canada to work, and there his artistic leaning became clear, firstly in the field of painting research, moving on later to cement itself in the plastic arts.

In 1978 he held his first one-man exhibition with the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. In the same year, his works were shown at the Italian Pavilion of the “Terre des Hommes” exhibition in Montreal. His skill in the field of sculpture was progressively confirmed through his work and dedication to further learning, which led him to graduate with honors from the College of Fine Arts in Toronto in 1994.

In 1995 he held a retrospective exhibition at the Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Toronto, presenting works created over 10 years of work, from 1985 to 1995, and in December of the same year his sculptures were exhibited in Italy, at the Modern Art Gallery in Spoleto. From that point onwards, he began an intensive run of exhibitions in numerous public and private American and European galleries.

In April 1997, his works were included in an exhibition at Brampton City Hall. The following year was particularly important for his artistic career: in the spring, he exhibited in Canada at the Bayat Gallery and the Caboto Center (Italo-Canadian Center) in Win-ni-peg; he took part in the 48th edition of the “G. B. Salvi” Award in Sas-soferrato, and in the fall exhibited at the National Art Club in New York and the Robert Mede Gallery in Toronto, with an important personal show entitled Millennium.

In 2001 his works were exhibited at the Museum of the “Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur” in Montreal and in May of the same year, the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto requested an anthological exhibition. In July, the artist presented some of his most recent sculptures in Italy at the International Festival of Spoleto, and in late fall he held a personal exhibition at the San Francesco Cultural Center in Giulianova, including his works of the previous ten years.

In 2002 he created two large works on commission for the Bell Mobility Center in Toronto, which are on show in the main headquarters. In the same year he created a bronze lunette for the rear door of the Cathedral, to complete the Annunciation built by the Venetian Master Crocetti.

In May 2003 he held an important personal exhibition in Milan at the “Spazio Guicciardini”, with the patronage of the Province of Milan, and in June at Villa Manin in Passariano, in the province of Udine, organized with the patronage of the Friuli Region. Both exhibitions received wide coverage from both local and national press, radio and television. In the fall of the same year, to celebrate the six-month Italian presidency of the European Union, invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of Munich, Germany, he exhibited at the Küenstler Haus, and one of his sculptures is on permanent display at the Italian Embassy in Berlin. A constant theme of Mastro-dascio’s sculpture is the female figure, a world of girls, ballerinas, young women, mothers, the expression of a reality caught on the threshold between appearance and mystery, between that belonging to the world of the visible, identifying a role, a circumstance, and even a social status, and a kind of subtle uneasiness that hangs in a gaze lost behind some distant point of flight, in poses denoting withheld tension, blocked by some kind of “freeze-frame”, awaiting an event that has yet to take place. And the “event”, whether it is about to happen, a dance audition, a lovers’ meeting, or whether it is a premonition, a foreshadowing of one’s own life or the future awaiting one’s children, reproposes the eternal condition of women, always poised between awareness and illusion (M. Cristina Ricciardi, from her presentation of Andante Sostenuto, Capelle Historique du Bon Pasteur, Montreal, Canada). On commission from the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade and Team Italia, he created the prestigious Italy-Canada Invest Award trophies, for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. In the same three-year period, commissioned by Alitalia in Toronto, he created the sculpture prizes for agent productivity.

In 2004 for the city of Teramo he built a large patinated bronze work with twelve figures, placed in the city center. A further two works, a bronze fountain and another sculpture, 2 meters high, dedicated to the memory of Father D’Andrea, were completed by the artist on commission from the Municipality of Montorio al Vomano in the province of Teramo.

In 2005 he exhibited in Grado, at the request of the “La Manna” Cultural Centre.

In 2006 he exhibited in Mexico City at Italian Culture Institut. Title of exhibition “Esculturas”.

In 2006/2007 Museum Crocetti. Title of exhibition “I Colori della Scultura”.

In 2008 personal exhibition at Columbus Center.

In 2009 Art Fair Toronto, under the auspices of Italian Culture Institut.

In 2010 “Retrospective” – Spazio dell’Arte – Toronto.