Bio
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, 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.
He is a co-founder of GH avisualagency an artist collective working in design, direction and strategy. He co-authored the GH avisualagency monograph published by Booth-Clibborn Editions. Lerner is also a co-founder and director of Art Center, a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life.
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EDUCATION
1995
B.F.A, Atlanta College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003
ONEHUNDREDEIGHT Freestyle Drawings On Cardboard, Tomoya Saito Gallery, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan
2001
DL27 SHOWROOM, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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