Tony Cetone was born in Dayton, Ohio. He received a B. A. degree at the University of Miami and his M. S. degree at the Universary of California at Los Angeles with postgraduate study at the University of Southern California.

He was introduced to the arts by his sister, a prominent New York artist teaching at the Art Student's League in that city. In his early adult years he was involved in the field of aerospace but continued to study privately with Mssrs. Pierre De Fayet and Joseph Goethe, both sculptors of international fame. Eventually he made a full-time commitment to his art.

Tony Cetone has exhibited widely and his work has been at such places as the San Francisco Museum of Art, La Jolla Art Center, the Smithsonian Institution, where filmstrips and color slides of his work are used in an ongoing lecture series on biological imagery in modern art and structural principles drawn from natural form.

He has been published in the Encylopedia Britannica Yearbook and in the book Prize-Winning Sculpture, (Allied Publications, Inc). His work is in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

The mysteries and profundities of the human intellect and spirit, as expressed predominantly in music, art, architecture and the sciences, are what engross me; and these expressive products of the intellect accordingly are formative of my personal aesthetics, or aesthetic outlook. Compositionally, I seek an integration of line, movement, balance, tension and space that reveals levels of design intellection and complexity in the seemingly uncomplex and understated.

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