Marc was born in Georgetown, Guyana and grew up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He started drawing as a kid and studied architecture at the University of Waterloo. His early creative practice centered on the production of self-published zines, posters and comics, and in 1999 he moved to Toronto where he participated in the vibrant DIY community of self-publishing and art making. During this time Montreal based Conundrum Press published two of his graphic novels, Enter Avariz and The Unexpurgated Tale of Lordie Jones. In 2004-2005 he was a video journalist for the CBC's innovative open source television show Zed Television reporting from the fringe and underground cultures. Between 2005 and 2011 he was travelling around the world on a self-governed research project called Internet and the Beach..
Marc's Drawings from a Thousand Plateaus have been exhibited in art galleries across Canada. Let's Glow and Braveland are two recent exhibitions of art made with Magda Wojtyra, his partner and collaborator in Happy Sleepy. He has received several award nominations for Watch This Space, a book about public space for young adults. Other recent projects include illustrations for Boone Lab, a biochemistry research lab at the University of Toronto, and Olden County, a 400 page graphic novel currently in its first draft.
Currently Marc is working on The Field Trip Project to transform a used Japanese student backpack donated for eathquake relief for shows in Japan’s disaster areas.
Marc lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
Marc Ngui watching bats at sunset in Thailand, 2007
back to topLet's Glow, collaborative solo show with Magda Wojtyra
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, March 2012
The Reef, with Magda Wojtyra
UpArt Contemporary Art Fair, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto 2011
Drawings from A Thousand Plateaus
Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo, Kitchener, 2012
Quantal Strife group show, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC 2008
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, 2007
Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, 2006
PPOP cartoon art group show, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 2005
Totem Pill animation, Sequential Desire group show
WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON 2008
Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON 2009
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON 2009
Meme Swarm drawings and digital art, Gene Swarm group show
Le Kop Shop, Montreal, QC 2006
city4 digital art, Pixel Gallery at the Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON 2003
Zak Meadow zines, Cyclops’ Dreams group show of artists' comics
Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC 2005
Peace Love and Unity: Typical Robot Landscapes
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON 2004
Bumblenut Pictures Zine and Art room
Canzine Indie Arts Fair, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON 2004
Big Doodles solo show
Common Ground Art Gallery, Windsor, ON 1995
Organiser, Too Cool for School Art and Science Fair
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON 2010
Curator, Artist Rooms at Canzine Indie Arts Fair
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON 2004, 2005
Graphic novel workshops for Write On! literacy program
Toronto School of the Arts, Toronto, ON 2011
Senator O’Connor College School, Toronto, ON 2010
Cartooning instructor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON 2005
Cartooning instructor, Yellowknife Public Library, Yellowknife, NWT 2005
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
Let's Glow, 2012
The Reef, 2011
White Ravens, International Youth Library, Watch this Space 2011
Red Maple Award nomination, Watch this Space 2010
Creative writing grant for Graphic Novel, Canada Council for the Arts 2007
Best Emerging Artist nomination, The Doug Wright Awards, Lordie Jones 2005
Creative writing grant for Graphic Novel, Canada Council for the Arts 2005
Best Illustration nomination, National Magazine Awards, Quallunology 2004
Design Studio Award, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo 1991
Macleans Magazine
Annick Press
This Magazine
Chickadee Magazine
Coach House Books
University of Laval Press
Revolver Pictures
Sumac Press
Automotive Industries Association of Canada
Fluid Media
ING Direct
Sears
Nickelodeon
