Marjan Eggermont was born in the Netherlands and emmigrated to Canada in 1986. She is considered to be one of the hardest working artists in Alberta. In 1998, Eggermont earned her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Calgary. Part of her Masters was spent studying at The Royal College of Art in London.

In 2003, Eggermont was voted one of the twenty most influential Calgary artists by The Calgary Artwalk Society. She is an artist, writer, instructor and curator with 12 solo shows to her credit. In the past five years, her work has been included in more than 50 group exhibitions.

Eggermont uses radically innovative techniques to produce beautiful, thoughtful art. She has worked with embroidery on canvas, etchings on steel, monotypes with chine collé, video installations and digital prints on canvas. Since the mid-1990s, she has been creating large-scale photo-stencilled steel plates etched with tree and plant forms.

Eggermont's most significant work has focussed on the increase of homeless people in Calgary. In 2000, she lined up 1296 toy cowboys with white cowboy hats in the Nickle Arts Museum – a display that took over 80 feet of plywood to complete. In 2002, using the same space, Eggermont mounted 1737 empty plywood shelves on the walls to illustrate the increase in the numbers of homeless. Last year, she built an interactive environment entitled "The Cave" that allowed viewers to walk through a virtual city to an office/factory space occupied by 1737 ghost-like individuals, standing as if frozen in time.