Andy Patton was born in Winnipeg and has lived in Toronto since 1977. He was a board member of YYZ Artist' Outlet from 1982 to 1989, and has shown at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Biennale of Sydney. He has written criticism from time to time as well as catalogue essays. He is represented by Birch Libralato Gallery in Toronto, Stride Gallery in Calgary and Douglas Udell Gallery in Vancouver, and is married to the artist Janice Gurney. He is a member of the poetry collective, Pain not Bread.