Marc Van Cauwenbergh was born in Ninove, Belgium. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1994. He studied printmaking at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Saint-Lucas in Ghent and holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, which he received on a Fulbright-Hays grant. He has exhibited internationally since 1984 and his work is in private, public, and corporate collections such as Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Collection of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels, BE), Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimee (La Louviere, BE), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), EBES (Ghent, BE), St-Lucas (Ghent, BE).