Marquis married Johanna Nitzke, a painter and former arts administrator and gallery director, in 1987. They maintain a home and studios on an island in Puget Sound, and the space, both indoors and out, is filled with Marquis's many collections. "Because Marquis is a collector, and his collections are vast, they are important in terms of understanding his work. His collecting 'categories' include Model A Ford Trucks, Studebakers, metal advertising signs, old pump insect sprayers, rubber squeeze toys, salt shakers, graniteware, anything with a Mexican Siesta or English Setter motif, Hallware, Aloha shirts (he sold this collection to the musician Rod Stewart), push-button knives, paint-by-number paintings, burnt match furniture, outboard motors, old slide viewers, Christmas bubble lights, kid's chemistry sets from the 1940s and 1950s, Fiesta tableware, old cans, bamboo fly rods, fat pencils, and expired, unexposed film. Vintage bowling balls, repurposed as building blocks, are stacked in a large pyramid next to the studio ... " Selected solo exhibitions: 1969 Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 1976 Tasmanian Art Museum, Hobart, Tasmania 1976 Queen Victoria Museum, Launceton, Tasmania 1978 Peabody College Art Gallery, Nashville, TN 1989 Auckland Art Museum, New Zealand 1997-98 "Richard Marquis Objects: 1967-1997," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2002 Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark 2003 "A Commentary on Nature and the Indy 500," Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA 2007 "The Way of the Artist," Fullerton Art Gallery, CSU, Fullerton, CA 2013 "Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Marquis," Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 2019 "Dick's Works", Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA Awards and honors 1963 National Merit Scholarship 1966 Eisner Prize for Design, U.C. Berkeley 1967 President's Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley 1969 Fulbright Grant, Venice, Italy (Venini & Co.) 1974, 75, 76 Australian Crafts Council Grant 1974, 78, 81, 90 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1979, 80, 81, 82 Research Grant, U.C.L.A. 1982, 88 Fulbright-Hayes Grant (Senior), New Zealand 1995 Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Crafts Council, New York 1995 Selected Distinguished Alumnus, College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley 2000 Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass, New York 2004 Libensky Award, Pilchuck Glass School and Artist Series Meritage, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, WA 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass 2009 James Renwick Alliance Masters of the Medium Award, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 2010 Neddy Artist Fellowship, The Behnke Fellowship, Seattle, WA Public collections United