Bison received his initial artistic training in the workshops of Girolamo Romani and Saverio Gandini in Brescia. By 1777, at the age of 14, he had enrolled at the Venetian Academy where he studied with Antonio Maria Zanetti, Constantino Cedini, and the vedute painter Antonio Mauro. He continued to attend the academy until 1789, leaving Venice in 1800 for Udine, and then traveling to Trieste where he remained until 1831. During this time he received an important commission for the decoration of the dome in the Palazzo Carciotti. His interest in design, boosted by his friendship with the architect G.A. Selva, who designed the Venetian theatre, La Fenice, resulted in many theatrical commissions and requests for decorative schemes which Bison executed throughout Northern Italy, in Venice, Treviso and in the Nuovo of Trieste. In 1831 he moved to Milan, where he remained until his death in 1844.