Marc Bridger (b. 1971, United States) received a BFA in studio art from The University of South Florida (USF) in 2015. Bridger graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in August 2020. Subsequently, Bridger entered a psychology research program.
Elevate, MartinArts in Miami, and Dab Art via Artsy are currently exhibiting Bridger's work. Group exhibitions include the participatory creation of Reciprocidad Andina, an art project for Miami's Creative Time Summit. After high-school, Bridger served in the U.S. Navy as an avionics technician, leading to writing and design in the airport consulting field. For twenty years, Bridger worked in technology roles and owned a business providing graphic and web design and IT support. The 2008 economic recession initiated a career transition into the arts, while Bridger's technological expertise informs his art practice and discourse. Bridger's paintings interrogate the propagandistic recursion within the hyperreal metaverse—probing the precarious environmental, social, and political conditions that subjugate humanity via a commodity-driven existence. At the close of his MFA degree, Bridger filmed and documented an adjustable aluminum stretcher-bar system he developed for artists. Subsequently, he donated the work as an educational resource via FloridaStretchers.org. Bridger highlighted metaverse absurdity in Pair of Dise (2020)—a work presented in his MFA Thesis Exhibition: Metaverse Gaze. In July 2020, Bridger finalized his written MFA thesis: Externalities of the Metaverse Gaze, before graduating in August. Within the thesis, Bridger articulated the idea of a metaverse gaze and the conceptual notion of a metaverse artform—an auto-exhibiting emergent amalgam that transcends the digital and physical art object, enfranchising an experience mediated by the device. In 2020, Bridger entered a psychology graduate program. He is no longer a practicing artist.