Marty McCutcheon was born in California in 1967. He has been living and working in Berkeley since 1999. His paintings are found in personal collections across the USA, as well as in Europe and Asia. His interactive installations have been exhibited at the Arnot Museum in Elmira, New York (in collaboration with Michael Chang and Jan Kather), at the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco (in collaboration with B.S. Wise), and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco.

As founder and operator of Round Table Collaboration, in association with schools and institutions such as UC Berkeley School of Education, City College of San Francisco, The Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, Berkeley Public Library and the Berkeley Art Center, McCutcheon has involved many hundreds of participants in collaborative art projects and workshops. For his arts-oriented contributions to the community, June 12, 2018 was officially proclaimed ‘Marty McCutcheon Day’ in the City of Berkeley.

In 2021, to build upon the success of Round Table Collaboration, McCutcheon and his wife, Ingrid Ekstrom, established Berkeley Commonplace, a nonprofit arts-organization with a mission to bring about and support collaborative art projects and creative activities for the purpose of personal, social and civic well-being.