Marco Moreno

When Marco was a kid, the answer to, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always the same: either a doctor or an artist. It seemed like the answer was a definitive “artist” when he went off to RISD to study Illustration years later. But while he was there, he reawakened a passion for nature, science, and medicine while taking classes such as Scientific Illustration, Comparative Anatomy, and Artistic Anatomy, and working at RISD’s renowned Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab. After graduating in 2021, Marco returned home to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Emory University, where he completed the necessary science coursework to apply to the several Medical Illustration graduate programs around the country. And while he did interview with them all, the Biomedical Visualization program at UIC was by far the best fit.

At BVIS, Marco hopes to continue honing his illustration skills that he first sharpened at RISD, and to stay curious about new techniques and ways of making. He hopes to look to the past at how medical illustration was brought into its own by greats like Tom Jones and Max Brödel, and to look to the future for new ways we can interact with science and medicine using cutting-edge techniques such as virtual and augmented reality. During his time at BVIS, he is interested in pursuing the 3D world and game design, as well as continuing to delve deeper into the world of traditional media.