Tobey C. Anderson is an independent visual artist living in St. Catharines -the cultural heart of the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. Born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., he grew up and was schooled in the Midwest of the United States, and in 1969 immigrated to Canada where became a dual citizen in 1975. Tobey has been producing and exhibiting artwork professionally since 1969 and is represented in numerous private and public collections internationally. He recently initiated CRAM, Canada's smallest gallery and an artist collective - a hybrid venue that encourages investment in contemporary artists with ties to Niagara.  In 2007-2008 Tobey was the recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Visual Artist Grant and Materials Assistance Grants for The New American Century Project.

Since deciding to concentrate on (acrylic) painting since the late 1970's, I have been exploring its dual nature through image-making and abstraction. My source materials are most often appropriated images from everyday life, art and history, as well as the media and, most the Internet. Symbolism, spirituality, humour, local life and metaphor are all elementsI am working on in my work, as is my favorite recreation - fishing.