About
Marq Sutherland, born in San Diego, California in 1974, grew up in an artistic family. In 1998, he became assistant to contemporary landscape painter Woody Gwyn and began his photographic studies with David Scheinbaum and Steve Fitch at the College of Santa Fe, graduating in 2001 with a self-designed BA in photography, music and technology. He continued his studies with Jack Fulton at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA in 2005. Sutherland was a finalist for the 2002 Willard Van Dyke Award, and received a SFAI Teaching Assistantship Award in 2004 and a Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship in 2008. He now lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.
EDUCATION
Masters Course Photo España 2012, Campus PHE Book Publishing with Gerhard Steidl
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Photography, 2005
College of Santa Fe, BA Photography, Music and Technology, 2001
Semester At Sea, Study Abroad through the University of Pittsburgh visiting Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, Italy, and Morocco, 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Learning To Skate, ZAWP, Bilbao, Spain, Noviembre, 2018
Músicos en Bilbao, Espacio Imagen, Santander, Spain, Noviembre, 2017
Recent Photographs, CoLab Creativity, Zentrum Bilbao, Spain, 2011
Bilbao: Recent Photographs Forum Internacional de las Industrias Creativas, Museo Maritimo Ria de Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 2011
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA, 2005
The State Of Being Manly, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Mith Samlanh Exhibit for Aids Project LA, Phay Doe Doe, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
Mith Samlanh Exhibit for Friends, Paramount, Santa Fe, NM, 2003
Moments Given: Children In Our World, Greer Garson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
Millennium Voyage Reunion, The Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, 2000
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Private Made Public, Bethel University, McKenzie, TN, 2020
Pecha Kucha Night Volume 7, Exhibiting Artist, Bilbao, Spain, 2011
Woody Gwyn, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2009
The Man Box and Beyond, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Woody Gwyn - Revisited, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX, 2006
Cream – from the top, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA, 2005
Student Artist Exhibition, Bowie Art.Com, London, England, 2005-2007
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Nevada Landscape Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Open Studio Exhibition, SWELL Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003
Light Show, The Darkroom, Santa Fe, NM, 2003
Anything Goes, The Darkroom, Santa Fe, NM, 2003
Juried Exhibition, College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2001
Juried Exhibition, Marion Center for the Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
It’s in the Bag, CSF Fine Arts Gallery, Juried by Luis Grachos, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
Juried Exhibition, Marion Center for the Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1999
Juried Spring Exhibition, College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1999
PUBLICATIONS
Pilgrim by Marq Sutherland, Steidl Verlag, 2025
One Last Scherzo by Margaret Chula, Artist Portrait, Finishing Line Press, 2020
Behind The Easel: Unique Voices of 20 Contemporary Representational Painters by Robert C Jackson, Portrait of Artist Woody Gwyn, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2014
Just This by Margaret Chula, Artist Portrait, Mountains and River Press 2013
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass, Cover, Pantheon/Random House, 2006
"Cream - from the top" Artweek, October, 2005
"Cream - from the top Review" artUS, November/December, 2005
Give2Asia, Greeting card set to promote philanthropy to Asia, Asia Foundation, 2004
Glyph, The Literary Magazine, College of Santa Fe, Morris Publishing, 2001
AWARDS
Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship, Taos, New Mexico, 2008
Teaching Assistantship Award, San Francisco Art Institute, 2004
Finalist: Willard Van Dyke Award, New Mexico Council On Photography, 2002