Micah Lexier is a conceptual artist living and working in Toronto. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received his BFA with Honours from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1982, and later completed his MFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. Lexier has built an international reputation working in a variety of media including sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and installation work. Interested in expressions of time passing and age, Lexier's work is often numerical in its themes. His well known work David Then & Now, 2005 is a photographic work that deals with both time and portraiture. Begun with Portrait of David, a series consisting of 75 black and white photographs of males aged one through 75 with the name David, Lexier photographed the same men 10 years later and created diptychs with the original photographs. David Then & Now is both a portrait of "David" and a "portrait of ten years."
