A native of New York City, he started his theatre and art education in its public schools. During summer recess, at the age of eleven, he apprenticed himself to the Cleveland Playhouse in Chautauqua, New York and later to the Chautauqua Opera Association. As a teenager he studied drawing at the Art Students League and was a supernumerary with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

Starting in 1965 with his work for the "Promenades" and then the "Rug Concerts" at the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Wexler's design and organizational expertise led to producing, programming and/or theatre and public space design assignments for the Denver Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Wexler has produced, programmed, directed, designed and/or raised funds for museum exhibitions, concerts, public spaces and media events for the U.S. Department of the Navy, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as the Trammell Crow Company, AIRCOA, the Oxford Development Company, E.D.S. (D.S.O. Outdoor Concerts - Ross Perot) and the Taubman Company (Al Taubman) in the private sector. Mr. Wexler produced the gala fund-raising concert "Salute to Slava" for the National Symphony Orchestra at the J. F. Kennedy Center, which was televised nationally by WETA. He also provided an environment for the "Boston Pops,” starting in 1995.

Mr. Wexler was the founder, producer and artistic director of the Spring Creek Festival in Garland, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex) from 1992 to 1994. The festival presented artists ranging from the Dixie Chicks to Mstislav Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra. The Spring Creek Festival is one of the many large outdoor music festivals for which Mr. Wexler has provided production or design and technical expertise.

Mr. Wexler has taught or guest lectured at the University of Michigan, the State University of New York at Binghamton, the University of Arizona at Tucson and Harvard College.

Mr. Wexler's art – models, drawings and paintings for costumes and scenery, and photographs – is represented in both private and public collections, among them the Harvard Theatre Collection and the Cooper Hewitt Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. His graphics have been exhibited at the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the Max Reinhardt Archive, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera Board Room, Avery Fisher Hall, B. Altman's, Fortunoff, Saks Fifth Avenue, the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Chicago Cultural Center. He has had 14 one-man shows.

His work is extensively collected by the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (Billy Rose and Jerome Robbins Collections), the Theatre Department of the State University of New York (Binghamton), the Department of Theatre Arts and University Library Special Collections at the University of Arizona (Tucson) and the Robert Tobin Collection at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

His book, “Reflections–Riflessioni,” may be found in the library of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Avery Art and Architecture Library, as well as the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, the libraries of the International Center of Photography, N.Y. and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Additional biographical information about Mr. Wexler may be found in Who's Who (in America-2008, in American Art-2007 etc.), Blue Book and Men of Achievement.

Mr. Wexler has been married to EMMY AWARD winning costume designer Constance Ross since 1962.