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Allan Wexler
Principal, Wexler Studio
Artist Allan Wexler’s career resists easy classification. As an architecture student in the late 1960’s he was an early member of the group who questioned the perceived divide between art and the design disciplines. His work is often inspired by his education in architecture.
Wexler creates drawings, sculptures, images, and installations that alter perceptions of domestic activities. He investigates how the built environment choreographs human experience and interactions, turning everyday activities into ritual and theater. It is a type of experimentation with what we think we know: his work confronts us with the unknowability of even the simplest aspects of our daily lives.
He has exhibited, taught, and lectured internationally.
Wexler is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016).
He is a 2005 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome , and a winner of both a Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the Henry J. Leir Prize from the Jewish Museum.
He has had numerous national and international solo exhibitions, has lectured on his work internationally, and has been reviewed by major art and design publications. Wexler has taught for 40 years and currently teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Wexler is currently represented by the Jane Lombard Gallery in New York City where he had a solo exhibition in 2025. From 1984 until 2023 he was represented by Ronald Feldman Gallery.
In 2017 Lars Müller published Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design, a book on Wexler’s work and creative process, featuring projects developed across the artist’s career.
In March of 2027, Lars Müller will be publishing A New Furturist Cookbook - a series of recent works by Allan Wexler created in collaboration with interdisciplinary designer Michael Yarinsky. They worked with innovative chefs and leaders in the culinary arts and food culture to create a series of ten performance/events that merge the culinary arts, the fine arts and the applied arts. The book will be a 2026 response to the 1932 Futurist Cookbook, a manifesto of culinary innovation by F. T. Marinetti.
