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Lived in Marijampolė until 1920. He studied painting on his own, drawing advertising hoardings for Jewish shops in Marijampolė, and by 1919 he was already teaching art at the Marijampolė Jewish Gymnasium. In 1923, thanks to the school's headmaster M. Majeris, he went to study painting at a private art academy in Berlin, from 1930 he worked and trained in Paris, and from 1940 he lived in the USA, where he became a well-known and sought-after artist (he painted the portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt). He held exhibitions in Kaunas (1925, 1932), Berlin (1924, 1929, 1931), Paris (1926, 1929, 1932, 1936, 1939), New York (1927, 1930, 1934), Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles (1941), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1943), the California Art Club (a number of exhibitions in the 1950s.
The works have been acquired by the San Diego Museum of Art California; the Spertus Museum Michigan, Chicago; the Musée de Luxembourg, Petit Palais (Paris); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Riverside Museum, as well as by collectors from the United States, Israel and Lithuania. The Lithuanian Museum of Art has Bando's Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1932).
Died 1974 in Hollywood, USA.