Marisa J. Futernick was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Futernick received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from the Royal Academy Schools, London, with additional studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
She has exhibited widely, at venues including the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Brandeis University, Boston; the Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Oxy Arts at Occidental College, Los Angeles; Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles; Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA; Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA; Jerwood Space, London; Kingsgate Project Space, London; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Outpost, Norwich, UK; and Yale University. She has published several books, including 13 Presidents (Slimvolume, 2016), How I Taught Umberto Eco to Love the Bomb (RA Editions and California Fever Press, 2015), and The Watergate Complex (Rice + Toye, 2015). She is a core member of the activist group Artists 4 Democracy.
After over 15 years in London, Futernick now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.