Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist, poet and actor whose artwork can be found in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tony has published six books including three collections of art and poetry: The Hard Angels (1988), Dirty Boulevard (1998) and Bum Town (2001); a collection of etchings entitled Tony Fitzpatrick: Max and Gaby's Alphabet (2001) and two collections of drawing-collages entitled, The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 1 (2005) and The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 2, The Dream City (2006).

Tony Fitzpatrick was born in Chicago in 1958 where he lives today with his wife and two children.