Dexter was born in 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. His collages have been exhibited at Cleveland State University, CACP Gallery, William Busta Gallery and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2016 his work was included in WINTER at the International Print Center in New York, which traveled to the galleries at Hamline College in St Paul MN. A group of collages were included in Contemporary Connections Woodcuts at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel Mississippi in 2017. A retrospective exhibition was organized by the Galleries at Kent State University which included a monograph. His works are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Art Associations, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Artists’ Archives and Progressive Corporation.

His work is currently included in Mapping Narratives: New Prints 2021/Winter at IPCNY.