Derek Lerner

About

Born 1974, Jacksonville, FL; Derek Lerner is a New York City-based artist with a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. His work explores systems: the creation, control, and use of them. architectonic. power, media, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, culture: counter-culture/over the counter culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, etc.

Lerner has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada, BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 31GRAND gallery in NY, and Tomoya Saito Gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan.

Location: New York, NY, United States
Website: http://www.Derek-Lerner.com

Work

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2003
ONEHUNDREDEIGHT Freestyle Drawings On Cardboard, Tomoya Saito Gallery, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan

2001
DL27 SHOWROOM, New York, NY

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Select Media Festival 9: Infoporn II, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2010 Conflux Festival, 5 block radius surrounding NYU’s Barney Building, New York, NY
FAD Digital Arts Festival, Quina Galeria, Edificio Maleta, downtown Belo Horizonte , Brazil
August 7 screening, Berkeley Commonplace, Berkeley, CA
Draw, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

2009
Draw, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
Connected Unconscious, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Draw, StolenSpace Gallery, London, UK

2007
Our Space CREAM 5th Anniversary, Kapok, Hong Kong
Draw as part of the SXSW Music-Film + Interactive Festival, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas

2006
Draw, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Alumni Exhibition, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL

2005
FUFI FUFI, TypeStereo & Freegums mobile gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Job 36:1, GH avisualagency collaboration 222gallery, Philadelphia, PA
My Moleskine, Tsutaya Tokyo Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
TRAFIC, Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or, Val-d’Or (Québec)
WE BARTER, Life In a Box Project, Fabrica Features, Hong Kong

2003
BLING, Derek Lerner and Tom Sanford, 31GRAND, Brooklyn, NY

2002
the big group show, M3Projects Gallery, Graphic Havoc collaboration, New York, NY
SK8 ON THE WALL, Graphic Havoc collaboration, Gallery Rocket, Tokyo, Japan
XHAND, 222gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Coded Language, City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, GA
VERSION>02, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2001
Looser Graffiti, FAXWARS collaboration, YoungBlood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
ARKITIP EXHIBITION002, Graphic Havoc collaboration, alife, New York, NY
Krylon and Beyond 2, YoungBlood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1999
transparent horizons, MACHINE collaboration, NEXUS Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

1995
Senior Exhibition, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Drawing, gallery 100, Atlanta, GA

1994
Printmaking, Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007
Interview with Derek Lerner, “Our Space”, CREAM No. 08, Hong Kong, October

2004
GH avisualagency, London, Booth-Clibborn Editions, ISBN 1861542682
MAN VS. MACHINE by Graphic Havoc, “Technology”, BIG No. 51, New York

2003
Übersee 2, “From Surface into Space”, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, February
Tray Butler, All in the wrist, “Shelf Space”, Creative Loafing, Atlanta, February 12

2002
Broken Wrist Project, Book 1, Los Angeles, ISBN 0972158707
The Elizabeth Kent Story, Brooklyn, Graphic Havoc, ISBN 097196702X
Derek Lerner SHOW&TELL Fig.A, “Digital Détournement”, Select Magazine #3, Chicago, April … Read More