Marin received his BFA in Sculpture from James Madison University, and his MFA in Sculpture & Expanded Practice from Ohio University. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design, and he has also taught elementary and middle school students at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, VA. He served as the Director of Outreach at Spiro Arts Artist Residency and Workshop Center in Park City, UT, where he was able to implement the after-school art program ArtSpark into the local elementary schools. He has received full fellowships at the following: Blue Sky Project, Dayton, OH; Sculpture Space, Utica, NY; The Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO; The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and Spiro Arts, Park City, UT. Marin was also an artist-mentor at the Kimball Art Center’s RELEVANT2010 in Park City, UT. He has exhibited at a variety of locations such as the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; the Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City; with the artist-group Spurse at the Creative Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland; and with Ohio University’s Aesthetic Technologies Lab in conjunction with ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Art), San Jose.

My sculptural events fold traditional materials (such as clay, ink, and fabric) and aesthetic values (such as scale) into innovative zones. I often incorporate my physical body into my work to discover its pliability in the face of conditions and constraints imposed by society, and to ascertain the limits of my own self-control. I build impossibility into my work to develop false hope, and thereby question the notion of success. Yet while my works are often explorations in futility, processes and outcomes that are seemingly senseless are never wasted when followed by meaningful insight, as I realize that it is the process of unlearning that is of ultimate worth.