Marc Charbonneau was born in Timmins, Ontario in 1954. In 1994, he was invited to represent Canada as a painter in the Second Francophonie Games in Paris. He has been showing his work since 1976 and been part of over 30 individual or group exhibitions. Since 1983, he has been teaching visual and media arts to students in the Visual Arts Concentration at the Centre for Artistic Excellence at the De La Salle public high school in Ottawa.