Jan Exnar was born in 1951 in the Czech Republic. Originally, he aspired to be a painter and began his education at the Glass School in Železný Brod at the age of fifteen. However, he became exclusively captivated by the fascinating material of glass. He moved to Prague in 1970, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture, and Design under the renowned Professor Stanislav Libenský. From him, he learned the “soul of glass.” His work is inspired in part by cosmic spaces, whose infiniteness is enclosed within a glass form with a myriad of internal bubbles and contain, in their silence, the monumental character of some sort of mysterious signs. In recent years, Exnar’s work has moved to expressive, symbolic figuration. These monochromatic, dream-like sculptures are dynamic and powerful in their form and stance.