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, 31GRAND gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Tomoya Saito Gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan. He is also the co-author of "GH avisualagency", currently available at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Tate Modern in London.
