Micah Lexier (b. 1960) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Winnipeg. He has a BFA from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Lexier’s work has been acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario, the British Museum, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, and other international institutions. He received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, and has an array of public commissions across the country.

The Here, Not Here plaques belong to a series derived from a found image in a vintage book on camouflage. That source material included simple directional text indicating where to conceal oneself (“HERE”) and where not to (“NOT HERE”). The original lettering was hand-drawn, with uneven spacing and an intentionally awkward graphic quality, which the artist carefully preserves in each plaque.

Each work contains five perforations, and the placement of the words shifts from plaque to plaque, creating subtle variations across the series. There are twenty unique plaques in total, with no two exactly alike. They are produced using a baked porcelain enamel process, an industrial technique in which a glass-like coating is fused onto metal at extremely high temperatures, lending the works both material durability and a refined,
manufactured finish.