Marcela Cabutti was born in 1967 in La Plata, the capital city of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

She graduated in 1994 from La Plata National University School of Fine Arts with degrees in sculpture and art history. In 1995-96 she was given a grant by the Antorchas Foundation to participate in a workshop run by the artists Luis F. Benedit and Pablo Suárez in which she created sculpture, objects, and installations. The foundation also supported Cabutti’s study in 1998 of design and bionics at the European Institute of Design in Milan, Italy. In that year Cabutti was given a grant by the Delfina Studio Trust, London. In 2000 she received grants from the Medici Foundation (in support of her artist residency at the Duende Ateliers, Rotterdam) and from the Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio), where she served as the resident glass artist.

Her awards have included First Acquisition Prize PRESIDENCIA DE LA NACION 111 SALON NACIONAL DE ARTES VISUALES (2023) , Diploma al Mérito de la Fundación Konex en la Categoría de Escultura 2012-2022 (2022) , Cultural Equality (2013), First Acquisition Prize Salón Municipal Artes del Fuego, Mumart, La Plata (2011), Second Acquisition Prize at 15th Premio Federico Jorge Klemm a las Artes Visuales (2011), First Acquisition Prize, Premio Arnet a Cielo Abierto (2009), First Biennial for a Young Artist, Buenos Aires (1993) and the First Regional Award from OSDE Foundation, Buenos Aires (2005).

Cabutti’s art has been included in exhibitions in Buenos Aires; La Plata; Milan; Madrid; Norway, Rome; Rosario, Argentina; and Turin, Italy. She has been included in several books, including Aire alrededor de los objetos Cabutti, Marcela (Air among objects. Marcela Cabutti) , Editorial Estela Gismero (2017), Residencia en el mundo (Residence in the World), Rosario, Museo Castagnino-Macro (2011), Catálogo de la Colección del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (Catalogue of the Collection of the Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art), Rosario, Museo Castagnino-Macro (2004), Colección Alberto Elía – Mario Robirosa (Alberto Elía – Mario Robirosa Collection) (2004) and Jorge López Anaya’s Arte argentino: Cuatro siglos de historia (1600-2000).