Marlene Creates lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. She studied visual arts at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Since the 1970's her work has been presented in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Denmark, and the USA. She has also been the curator of several exhibitions, worked in artist-run centres, and taught visual arts at the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College. She has been a guest lecturer at various institutions, among them the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Oxford, and the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her artistic practice -investigating the relationship between human experience, memory, language and the land- has taken her to work in many locations thoughout Canada and Britain. Her work is in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Exhibitions include Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994 at the Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, as part of Fotofeis, the international photography festival in Scotland; Displaced Histories at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; The Edge of Town at the Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
Marlene Creates represented St.John's in an international exhibition of contemporary art - Container 96, Art across Oceans - in which 96 artists from port cities around the world have installed their work in shipping containers along the harbourfront in Copenhagen as part of the Cultural Capital of Europe 1996.

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