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 intersection of constructed reality and conceptual surrealism. Known for highly staged photocompositions and technical precision, he creates narrative-driven images that blend cinematic sensibility with visual irony and controlled complexity.
Trained in film photography and traditional darkroom processes, Wexler was an early adopter of digital imaging in the 1980s. His practice continues to evolve through the integration of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and emerging AI technologies, reflecting the changing boundaries between authenticity and artifice in contemporary image-making.
Wexler’s work has been exhibited internationally, and his photographs are held in institutional and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Getty Research Institute, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum. Notable commissions include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Wexler’s images have appeared on the covers of TIME and Rolling Stone. He has photographed major advertising campaigns for global brands including Sony, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Maxell’s 1992 “Blown Away” reboot. He also designed photographic logos for the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition and Batman Forever films, winning a Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award in 1996.
He is the author of three critically acclaimed monographs: 25:25 (2005), The Secret Life of Cows (2007, foreword by Eric Idle), and The ’80s Portrait Sessions (2019, foreword by Billy Gibbons). Wexler was inducted into the Album Cover Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to visual culture, including work for artists such as Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, and Rush.
Tim Wride, former curator of photography at LACMA, described Wexler’s work as “both meaningful and memorable,” emphasizing his innovation and clarity of vision.
Wexler currently resides and works in Palm Desert, California, where his studio practice focuses on creating personal, concept-driven fine art photographic imagery.