Marcia Kure lives and works between the United States and Nigeria. She trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.

Kure has held solo exhibitions across Nigeria, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her work has been presented in major international exhibitions and biennials, including La Triennale, Paris (2013); the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (2006); and the Sharjah International Biennial (2005). In 2014, she participated in the 11th Dak’Art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal. She was also included in Body Talk, a traveling exhibition presented at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; and Lunds Konsthall, Sweden. Additional group exhibitions include Not a Single Story at Wanås Konst, Sweden, and NIROX Sculpture Park, Johannesburg (2018–19).

Kure has held academic and research appointments internationally, including Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2019–20); Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution (2008); and Visual Artist in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2014). She is the recipient of the Uche Okeke Prize for Drawing (1994).

Her work is held in major public collections, including the British Museum, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Menil Collection, Houston; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Newark Museum of Art; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth; and FRAC Lorraine, among others.