Marc Handelman received his MFA from Columbia University in New York. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally, in venues such as The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Grafikens Hus, Farsta, Sweden; The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; The Royal Academy of Art, London; The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; The Rubin Museum, New York; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. In 2025, Handelman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s 100th class of Fellows. He is currently an Associate Professor of Painting at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University.