Cedar Marie received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was a recipient of both a David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts and an Advance Opportunity Fellowship. The displacement of the human body, in its 
relationships to the production of physical objects, is a central focus of her creative research.
Marie is interested in the cultural and emotional understanding of objects and how they influence our daily lives. She combines hand-crafted objects with mass-produced commodities or found objects into installations and sculptural narratives. She brings together hair with materials like steel, wood, and glass to explore our understanding of physicality.
Marie's work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is cited in numerous publications including the Wisconsin State Journal, Slate Magazine, and the College Art Association's Art Journal. Her paper Transcending Bodies: The Work of Robert Gober, Felix-Gonzales-Torres, and Rachel Whiteread was presented at the 2006 Trans Visual Culture Conference (Madison-Wisconsin) as part of the “Nature and Culture” panel discussion.
Before coming to the University of Oklahoma, Marie taught Foundation Studio and Visual Statement (conceptually driven) art courses at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). Her curatorial projects include the Culture in Transition Exhibit This Land is My Land (MIAD, 2008). In this exhibition, the investigation of divergent cultures was explored with sensitivity and respect for the perspectives and values generated within their boundaries, and for the collisions and shifts that occur beyond the romanticized notions of cultural and social communities. The results showed intimate yet binary expressions of human experience extending beyond the definitions of self, home and that of being in a foreign land within a dominant culture. .
