Lyle Rexer holds two degrees from Columbia University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including How to Look at Outsider Art (2005), The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (2009), for which he was awarded a grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, and The Critical Eye: 15 Pictures to Understand Photography (2019). He has published hundreds of catalogue essays, reviews, and articles on art, photography, and contemporary literature and contributed to such publications as The New York Times, Art in America, Aperture, BOMB, Harper's, and the Brooklyn Rail. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions in the United States and internationally and has lectured at many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Yale University.
