Marie Collins b.1985 and a half is an artist(s) who lives and works in Lubbock, Texas. She has has exhibited in over 40 solo, duo, group, and juried exhibitions, with recent
exhibitions including the TX * 17 Texas 2017 Biennial, the Amarillo Biennial 600: Sculpture, and the Rising Eyes of Texas 2014 and 2015. Her work has been featured in
publications including New American Paintings MFA Annual #111, the October 2017 issue of TX Arts and Culture, and Glasstire’s “Panhandle South Plains Laissez-Faire”. She is
regularly featured on Saatchi Art Online, including their “Invest In Art” series alongside ten other artists from around the world. She has been a finalist in the Hunting Art Prize
(the largest art prize in North America at $50,000) showing her work at its Gala in 2014 and 2015. She is the founder of the West Texas arts blog, The Bowerbird, which has its
content regularly featured on Glasstire, Texas’s premiere arts online magazine. She was the recipient of the 2013 James Douglas Allison Painting Award, the 2014 Helen Devitt
Jones Fellowship, and the 2015 Horn Professors Graduate Achievement Award. Her illustrations have been published in the California Law Review and the Harvard Journal of
the Legal Left. Her work is in private collections around the globe and is sold through Saatchi Art Online and Charles Adams Gallery in Lubbock. Marie is Assistant Curator at the
LHUCA in Lubbock, Texas, curating 44 Artists from Texas (co-curator), Hills Snyder: Altered States (Part Two), Ice Cream, You Scream, and Bruce Lee Webb “UFOs Are Real.” She
is also an art instructor for the Lubbock Arts Alliance, and provides art education for at-risk youth. Marie is co-owner of “Art Handlers”, a professional art installation business,
and she currently teaches studio art at Lubbock Christian University. Marie is a busy girl.