- Marjorie Strider is related by marriage to writer / actress Michele Strider.
- Is the Aunt of producer Linda Rattner Kelly.
- Her father was a cement contractor, and her mother was a secretary at an Air Force base who also led local campaigns to improve literacy.
- She attended the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri and Oklahoma State University. She designed shoe-store window displays before moving to New York in 1957.
- She was among the first wave of New York pop artists which emerged in the 1960s. She had grown bored of making flat paintings, and began adding things like cardboard and wood to the surface to make them more sculptural. In the 1970s, she worked with urethane foam, creating huge, sinuous installations that seemed to flow out of building windows or down staircases.
- She taught at the School of Visual Arts, living in SoHo when that area was just emerging as an artists' neighborhood.
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