Tony Fitzpatrick
2001                                           (PRINTS)

Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick's work are inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children's books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and, for the last two years has written a column for theNewcity. Fitzpatrick's art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. The Neville Brothers' album Yellow Moon and the Steve Earle's albums El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick's art. In 1992, Fitzpatrick opened a Chicago-based printmaking studio, Big Cat Press, which exists today as the artist exhibition space Firecats Projects. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions
The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol. 3, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, NY
The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol. 3, Pierogi, New York
The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Vol. 2—Dream City: Billy Shire Fine Arts, Culver City
The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City: Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles
The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City: Pierogi, New York
Remembered City: Prints and Drawings, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago
The Autumn Etchings, Big Cat Gallery, New York
The Ruckus: New Drawings and Etchings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
The Secret Birds, Big Cat Gallery, New York
Bum Town, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
New Etchings, Marguerite Destriecher Gallery, New Orleans
New Etchings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Work from Big Cat Press, Davidson Gallery, Seattle
The Holy Slang, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Recent Prints, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
The Dope Drawings, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
Recent Prints, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia
Salvation & Damnation, Crossman Art Center, Whitewater Wisconsin
Joe's Garden, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Davidson Gallery, Seattle
The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
Thomas Barry Gallery, Minneapolis
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
The Son of a Sailor, Richmond Arts Center, Loomis Chaffee School,
Windsor, Connecticut
The Secret Birds, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Tony Fitzpatrick: Prints, Davidson Gallery, Seattle
White Circus, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia
Bridgewater Lustberg Gallery, New York
Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
New Prints, Landfall Press, New York
Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago
New Prints from Landfall Press, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
New Prints from Landfall Press, Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchwan
Hard Anges and Other Subjects, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Red Circus, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Tony on an episode of "The Madness of Art"

Autumn Planets was proofed by Professor James Bailey, with assistance from his printmaking students Jason Clark, Kaya Wielopolski and Ryan Lindburg.