David Packer was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in the United States since 1983. Highlights of his exhibition record include Exit Art and the Garth Clark Gallery, both in New York City, and Navta Schultz Gallery, Chicago. He has participated in shows in Morocco, France and Japan. He has curated shows for Spring Break Art Fair and at 81 Essex, all in New York. He has been in residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Kohler Arts/Industry, all in the United States, as well as AIR Vallauris in France and Youkobu in Tokyo. In both 2011 and 2019, he was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award to research and teach ceramics in Morocco, living in Fez, Tangier, Marrakech, and Essaouira. In 2019 he published a book about Moroccan ceramics, The Earth has Three Colors: a celebration of Moroccan ceramics.