Marcia Wolfson Ray was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1993 she received a Fellowship to attend the Mount Royal School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her MFA.
While in graduate school she started using organic materials such as bamboo, phragmites, hibiscus, marsh elder, corn, straw, dog fennel and willow to build her sculptures. She collects most of these materials herself from a wide range of locations from vacant city lots to the fields and marshes of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
She earned her education credits from Morgan State University. and has taught part-time in Baltimore City schools and as an adjunct instructor at Towson University and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Some of the galleries she has exhibited at include University of Connecticut, University of Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum, Arlington Arts Center, Hillyer Art Space, Washington & Jefferson College. In 2012 she received a Bakers Artist b Grant.