Marcius Noceda was born in Olongapo City, Philippines and moved to United States when he was 15.  He first studied painting in Ventura Community College and, currently, at the San Francisco Art Institute as a BFA Painting Undergraduate.

"My paintings depict my experience growing up in the Philippines, with its historical colonialism  and political struggles, and my later immigration to the United States. I put monumental shapes in  an underworld-like space in order to generate the drama of two cultures colliding. This collision is  seen in my use of rich tones embedded in a chiaroscuro environment, which creates a nostalgia that is both personal and cultural."

Noceda is involved with Bindlestiff Studio a theater group formed at the South of Market.  He makes music and enjoys doing shadow puppetry for community theatre.