His work encompasses multiple styles, approaches, and materials, from neo-surrealism to furniture to toys in popular culture to the history of sculpture.

Once interested in philosophy and physics, he began to focus his attention on art, drawing and working on illustrations for magazines.

[2] Cemin earned his degree at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1975 to 1978 where he learned printmaking for three years.

[4] After those formative years in NYC Cemin moved to Egypt and then Paris to pursue sculpture in different environments and with different mediums.

Since then he has had large public monuments installed throughout the world, including "Open" in Schaumburg, Illinois, "Tree" in Bergen, Norway, "Spring" in Båstads Kommun, Sweden.