Glen Wexler
Works
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Ascension: Fragmented Memories, 2025 -
Dissolution, 2025
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Ascension (Twilight Remembered), 2025
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Cerulean Dream, 2024
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Dark Horizon, 2024
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Pyramid, 2024
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OLO, 2024
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Sunday Vibes, 2025
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Illusion, 2025
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The Great Divide, 2024
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Lunar Threshold, 2023
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Moments of Beauty, 2023
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Part of Something Beautiful, 2023
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Requiem: Sold Our Soul, 2002
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Ring of Fire, 2019
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Beautiful Monster, 2013
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Patriotic Bitch, 2007
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Might as Well..., 1997
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Chimp, 2001
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Evidence of Evolution, 2001
Biography
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Glen Wexler is an American photographic artist whose work explores the shifting boundaries between observation, construction, memory, and perception. Over a career spanning five decades, he has developed a distinctive visual language that combines technical precision with conceptual and often surreal approaches to image-making.
Trained in film photography and traditional darkroom processes at ArtCenter College of Design, Wexler became an early adopter of digital imaging in the 1980s. His practice has continued to evolve through computer-generated imagery and advanced post-production, while remaining grounded in photographic authorship, personal observation, and the expressive possibilities of light.
Wexler’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in institutional and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum. Tim Wride, former curator of photography at LACMA, has described his work as “both meaningful and memorable,” emphasizing its innovation and clarity of vision. Notable commissions include work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
His images have appeared on the covers of TIME and Rolling Stone, and his commissioned work includes campaigns and visual identities for Sony, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Maxell, the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, and Batman Forever. He was inducted into the Album Cover Hall of Fame for his contributions to visual culture, including work for Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, and Rush.
Wexler is the author of three monographs: 25:25 (2005), The Secret Life of Cows (2007), and The ’80s Portrait Sessions (2019).
Born in Palm Springs, Wexler lives and works in Palm Desert, California. His current fine-art practice moves between constructed imagery and direct photographic observation, distilling landscape into explorations of light, color, atmosphere, and perceptual memory.