Tony Tredway received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991, and went on to earn an MFA from Mills College in May 2000. He was awarded the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship in 1999. He has exhibited widely in the Bay Area at New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure Gallery, and a.o.v. gallery, as well as the Amos Eno Gallery in New York and the Spiral Gallery in Los Angeles.