Lexie 'Lex' Lumiere is an award-winning photographer, intuitive artist and NDE survivor. Her work in photography, oil painting, and mixed media thrusts social boundaries and is often deemed inspirational in subject matter. Themes of environmentalism, activism and spirituality flood Lex Lumiere’s haunting collections. Her art is supernaturally and energetically charged because, as she says, “it has to be, there is no point in creating artwork that does not strike a nerve or touch a soul.” Raised in Houston, Texas, Lex spent many summers at Cricchio Studios, her grandparents' 50 year old photography business, training in classic darkroom photography in Beaumont, across from the McFaddin-Ward House, now a Historical Museum.

Frank Cricchio was a Kodak Camera Craftsman, one of the original Top 40 Photographers in the world, a respected international pioneer and educator on lighting and photography, who helped Fuji convert the market from film to digital imaging technology. Cricchio, a 50 year Rotary International member, recipient of Lifetime Achievement award(s) by the Professional Photographers of America, Fuji, Texas Photographers Association - Star Of Texas and UK Honorary Gold Circle award. Lexie's grandfather is the only Texan to receive The United Nations - International Photographic Council award for Outstanding Leadership & Dedication in Professional Photography.  His art is included in the Photographic Hall Of Fame at Epcot Center and is recognized by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA.) 

Lex's late grandmother Beatrice 'Bea' Cricchio, was also an award winning colorist and portrait painter who traveled the world with Mr. Cricchio, also lecturing for Kodak and Fuji. Bea was the first LatinX and Apache indian female accepted into the Professional Photographers of America and earned her 'Degree Of Photographic Craftsman’ by Kodak on August 17, 1974 for her skills in retouching negatives by hand. However, it was her hand painted portraits that won her critical acclaim and awards from the Association of Texas Photographers Conference (ATPI,) the Photo Bema International exhibit and Texas Artist Museum (TAMS,) as a talented minority female in an male dominated industry and civil rights eras when women for the first time, gained the right to apply for credit in their own name or own real estate without a male co-sign.

Following in her grandparents footsteps, Lex Lumiere, also a minority, is commissioned to create custom original artwork; paintings and photography to help benefit charities through fundraising auctions and exhibits. A nominated 2020 Honoree by the Houston Texans, NFL team for the 'Houston Texans Campeón de la Comunidad Award' for community service and former board member for Artbridge Houston, which provided therapeutic art services to underprivileged children. Well known for producing former Tv show, 'Art4Charity,' and the current podcast 'Charity Network News' which broadcasts to over 1.5 million people via Spotify or Apple. A niche that cross markets art events and charitable campaigns to help support artists, businesses, and nonprofits empowering our communities.

Lex has over ten years experience in fashion and luxury apparel, including her five year residency in NYC working for H&M, Juicy Couture, PPR (parent company of Gucci,) and as a rare (female) commercial photographer to shoot NYFW. Lexie gained recognition winning awards from East Texas State University, Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo in high school, and a Cypress Fairbanks School District contest to exhibit with legendary French photographer Daniel Aron of Hermes at their luxury store. Shortly after graduation, the art dealer of Remo Mario Trentini (1915-1999) a Italian surrealist artist famous for his oil on glass paintings, discovered Lex and she exhibited with him at the Grand Kempinski in Dallas. Lexie received a 'Editors Choice Award,' for the photograph "A Child Cries for Justice," her work was published in Treasures to Behold in 1997 for the first time. Lex's photography was selected and published in 'The Best Photos of 2000,' by the International Library of Photography, making her a 'sought after artist of the century,' by art collectors.

Lex Lumiere specializes in 'black & white pop color' for luxury fashion editorials, photo essays, managing and marketing creative concepts for clients such as; BMW MINI Cooper, IMG, Moroccan Oil, FW1. Collectively as artists, her family, even before Lexie was born have worked to support non-profits like; Rotary, Citywide Club Of America, Habitat For Humanity, Visual Aids, GLAAD, HRC, Pencils Of Promise, Samaritans Purse, Feeding America, Project Angel Food, Tim Tebow Foundation, Vanderpump Dogs, The Rose, St. Jude, Russell Simmons Art for Life, Foundation For Womens Cancer, Holocaust Museum, Celebrities Fore Kids, Alzheimers Association, United Against Human Trafficking, Samaritans Purse and many more charities.

Lexie's exhibits include; Children's Museum Houston, Houston Fine Art Fair hosted by Rick Friedman of Hamptons Expo Group (Art Aspen, Art Hamptons, Art Palm Springs,) Lurie Art Gallery of Beverly Hills (exhibited Basquiat's early works), AIG Latino Art Show, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Chelsea Hotel, See Me-Take Over:Times Square, Nance & Hardy Studios, Sawyer Yards, Houston Center For Photography and Neiman Marcus.

July of 2015 art from Lex Lumiere's 'Breaking Borders' series, a tribute to Chinese artist Ai WeiWei brought light to solitary confinement and human rights crimes was jury selected for exhibition at the Exposure Award, in the Louvre Museum, Paris and published in the Art Photography Collection book. The morning after Thanksgiving, Lex would survive a near fatal head-on car collision with a DUI driver that totaled 3 cars including the car she was a passenger in. During six months of rehabilitation from injuries that also damaged her vision in which she was literally prescribed 'rose colored glasses.' Lexie also survived a 7 year high profile court case to recover medical damages from a corrupt insurance company, lawyers, a Harris County Sheriff whom investigated her case for five years but never filed one police report and racist KKK Judges that made National News, While recovering from her injuries, Lex shifted her focus to studying integrative medicine and began volunteering at a local Star Of Hope homeless shelter as a Therapeutic Arts Teacher to help teach children how to cope with trauma using what she learned from her own healing journey. Specializing in PTSD, Anxiety and Trauma recovery to help people heal. Obtaining a State License, National Certification, and a separate partial Medical Scholarship from Harvard medical school to complete her credentials. Including work experience at University of St. Thomas as a private apprentice practitioner of Holistic Care in integrative energy therapy for the Medical Students at the Top 10 ranked, Carol and Odis Peavy School of Nursing. Due to her excellent work reputation with clients of former internationally known Nun, Lucia Bettler, founder of Lucias Garden in 1984. Lexie was personally recommended to work at the University of Saint Thomas by Dr. Connie Silva, Dr. Christen Sadler, and Dean Dr. Angelina Chambers due to her skills, intuitive nature and calmly managing an unexpected emergency that occured during a class with a possessed student on campus.

In November of 2016, one of Lex's paintings and a pen and ink drawing became part of the permanent collection at Stonewall National Museum & Archives, The Orlando 49. In fall of 2021, Lex testified on behalf of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) as a survivor of a near fatal car collision before Houston City Council. During the pandemic, Lex Lumiere received a shortlist award by Pfizer; they acquired three artworks for the 'Science Will Win' campaign into their corporate collection, a tribute to all her grandparents who died of different forms of cancer. Lex has continued her family's extensive charity work and involvement in both Local and National Arts communities like the Houston Arts Alliance, to becoming a Citizen Artist for the United States Department of Arts and Culture. Lex Lumiere's artwork and oil paintings are in the notable art collections of: Lester Marks, Steve Wynn, Madonna, and Paris Hilton.  Her grandfather Frank Cricchio, is also in the 'Notable People Hall of Fame,' collection in the Museum of the Gulf Coast, born in the small town of Port Arthur, where Lex grew up as a child, most famous for artists Ragan Gennusa, Robert Rauschenberg, animator Kelly Asbury (Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Shrek, Toy Story) and singer Janis Joplin (Lex's mother attended school with her brother.} In 2022, Lex flew to Washington, D.C. to accept her former grandfather Frank Cricchio’s final honor, the ‘American Society of Photographers International Award.‘ 

In February, Lex Lumiere provided testimony on the 'Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA,)' to the Congressional Committee on Small Business to help support a $300 million grant program for creative projects all across the country to fund both arts organizations and artists. While also releasing a series of NFT's in tribute to NASCAR and the delayed Beijing & Tokyo Olympics. Including publishing three Therapeutic Art Color Books; Magic the Black lab, Khristian the Calico Kitty and Tink the Tapping Chihuahua to help children recover from Trauma and PTSD due to school shootings and increasing violence in society, as part of a Suicide Prevention Project available on Amazon to save lives. Lexie genuinely believes in the power of education and creativity, giving seminars on; The Power of Creative Expression, teaching Therapeutic Arts or facilitating private or group Meditation workshops for PTSD and Body-Mind-Trauma Recovery. Lex Lumiere continues to carry the torch of a creative family legacy into the future and her focus is on ensuring that she and her Grandparents 100 years of combined artistic commitment to supporting charities endures in Museums and Galleries for future generations.