Aaron Pexa American, b. 1976

Pexa received his MFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. He also holds a dual Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Washington University in Saint Louis, and Bachelors in Studio Art from Carleton College. Prior to studying glass at RISD, Aaron worked as an architect and urban designer in London and New Orleans. In the fall of 2018, Pexa held a prestigious artist residency at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. In the summer of 2014 he received a travel grant to research glassmaking techniques along Finland's Glass Trail as well as a Chinese Government Scholarship at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou to study Mandarin and promote cross-cultural exchange. He was a 2015 and 2019 Fellow at the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts in Millville, New Jersey. The Lucent Parlor videos are in the permanent collections of the Ringling Museum of Art and the Museum of American Glass.