Daniel Sambo-Richter was born in 1966 in Görlitz (Saxony) and grew up in Cottbus. From 1982 to 1985, he undertook the preparatory programme in painting and graphic art at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Hans Scheuerecker and Uli Richter. In 1996, he was awarded a scholarship from the Sparkassen Cultural Foundation of Hesse-Thuringia, which included a residency at the Künstlerhaus Willingshausen, and that same year he received the Brandenburg Art Prize. This was followed by further national and international scholarships and residencies. Sambo-Richter lives and works in Berlin.