Marc Awodey studied painting under George Ortman at Cranbrook Academy of Art where he received a Masters of Fine Art in 1984.

Awodey's paintings can be found in many public, private, and corporate collections throughout the United States. Significant commissions have included a suite of paintings for MV Transportation Company in Fairfield, California and two large paintings in the lobby of the Franklin County Courthouse in St. Albans, Vermont. His work is included in the collections of the Vermont State House, Main Street Landing Company, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, and the City of Burlington, Vermont.

Awodey lives in Burlington and teaches fine arts at Burlington College and The Community College of Vermont. He writes art criticism for Seven Days and Art New England and he has published three books of poetry.

In her review of Awodey's 2008 exhibit at the Vermont Supreme Court, Anne Galloway writes, “His dramatic, haunting paintings…are a study in alienation, disconnection and melancholy. He creates landscapes that are like no place you've ever seen; they more aptly picture the way you've felt in a particular place. They ride the line between moody abstraction and realism.

”But it's Awodey's unidentifiable figures fixed in Hopperesque scenes of alienation that are the most provocative. You think you know what you're looking at, say a guy putting slabs of meat on a grocery freezer shelf, or a woman sitting in a chair knitting, but then again, maybe not. The blue figure reaching toward those red slabs of meat on the blood-smeared shelves looks as macabre as a scene from a chainsaw murder film, or as ordinary as a genre painting of a guy picking up supper at Shaw's.”

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