Tobey C. Anderson
Anderson holding a painting by Cuban artist Para.
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1946, Tobey C. Anderson grew up in Iowa. In 1969 he immigrated to Ontario and settled in Kingston where he spent a decade of artistic activity and employment in the Visual Arts Department at St. Lawrence College. He became a Canadian Citizen in 1975.
Tobey C. Anderson has been exhibiting his work since 1969. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most recently an Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Artists Grant (2007) and International Residency Program Grant (2010). Anderson's artwork is represented in private and public collections in Canada, U.S.A., and Cuba. In 2000-01 his labyrinths project was exhibited at Niagara Artists’ Company in St. Catharines and Bierkart in Peterborough, Canada.
In the late 1970’s Anderson was Founding President of Kingston Artists’ Association Inc./ Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre and was President of Artspace in Peterborough, when he worked closely with David Bierk, Dennis Tourbin and numerous other notables in the provincial and national artist-run network across Canada. In 1990, Anderson returned to Ontario from a 10 year hiatus in Iowa and San Diego, California and was Director of Niagara Artists’ Centre from 1990-98 before retiring to work as a full-time artist.
In 2003 Anderson was commissioned to produce a large painting installation for the Kirkwood Community College Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A., and for the past number of years, he has been producing and touring a significant series of war-related work, The New American Century Project, 2004-2012.
He has been actively involved in cultural developments in the communities where he lives and most recently, in Niagara, he served as the Inaugural Chair of the Culture Committee following his participation in the development, adoption, and implementation of a new Cultural Policy for the City of St. Catharines. In 2005 Tobey was the recipient of the Mayor’s Trillium Award for Artistic Excellence.
In 2006 he established the CRAM Collective and CRAM International and Canada's smallest art gallery featuring exhibitions of contemporary artists with strong ties to Niagara. In 2009 he initiated CRAM Press, Niagara’s premier print workshop. CRAM International is managed on a benevolent dictatorial management model and since 2008 has had an on-going relationship of cultural exchange with Taller Cultural "Luis Diaz Oduardo" in Santiago de Cuba. Anderson was the recipient of an Ontario Arts Council International Artist Residency Grant and spent six weeks in Santiago de Cuba in Dec 2011 - Jan 2012.
Tobey C. Anderson has been exhibiting his work since 1969. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most recently an Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Artists Grant (2007) and International Residency Program Grant (2010). Anderson's artwork is represented in private and public collections in Canada, U.S.A., and Cuba. In 2000-01 his labyrinths project was exhibited at Niagara Artists’ Company in St. Catharines and Bierkart in Peterborough, Canada.
In the late 1970’s Anderson was Founding President of Kingston Artists’ Association Inc./ Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre and was President of Artspace in Peterborough, when he worked closely with David Bierk, Dennis Tourbin and numerous other notables in the provincial and national artist-run network across Canada. In 1990, Anderson returned to Ontario from a 10 year hiatus in Iowa and San Diego, California and was Director of Niagara Artists’ Centre from 1990-98 before retiring to work as a full-time artist.
In 2003 Anderson was commissioned to produce a large painting installation for the Kirkwood Community College Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A., and for the past number of years, he has been producing and touring a significant series of war-related work, The New American Century Project, 2004-2012.
He has been actively involved in cultural developments in the communities where he lives and most recently, in Niagara, he served as the Inaugural Chair of the Culture Committee following his participation in the development, adoption, and implementation of a new Cultural Policy for the City of St. Catharines. In 2005 Tobey was the recipient of the Mayor’s Trillium Award for Artistic Excellence.
In 2006 he established the CRAM Collective and CRAM International and Canada's smallest art gallery featuring exhibitions of contemporary artists with strong ties to Niagara. In 2009 he initiated CRAM Press, Niagara’s premier print workshop. CRAM International is managed on a benevolent dictatorial management model and since 2008 has had an on-going relationship of cultural exchange with Taller Cultural "Luis Diaz Oduardo" in Santiago de Cuba. Anderson was the recipient of an Ontario Arts Council International Artist Residency Grant and spent six weeks in Santiago de Cuba in Dec 2011 - Jan 2012.
