Derek Lerner

My work explores systems: their creation, control, use and experience of them.

In 1994 I became interested in human interaction with technology and nonlinear information. Much of my work that followed dealt with the internet and code. My investigations made me increasingly intrigued with the relationships between perception and coded language. I began to explore the organization and chaos of complex systems, including tax evasion, the metaverse, money laundering, sock puppets and astroturfing, identity theft, the technological singularity, and most recently waste, urbanism, pathogens and poisons. My interpretations of these kinds of information spaces are motivated by my daily visual intake and life experiences.

Infrastructures, global warming and climate change, identity, crime, consumerism, misinformation, semantics, sociology, pollution, overpopulation, war, pandemics- these are some of the topics that drive my thinking and production of my work.

1995
B.F.A, Atlanta College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
In Between, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
42°33'00.51" N 70°52'33.57" W, Curated by Leonie Bradbury, Montserrat Galleries - Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Beverly, MA

2016
VOLTA12, Robert Henry Contemporary, Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland

2015
VOLTA NY, Robert Henry Contemporary, New York, NY

2014
Convenient Gratification, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2012
RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

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

2001
Ecko Unltd showroom, New York, NY
DL27 SHOWROOM, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Shoot The Pump, Bullet Space, Curated by Lee Lee Quiñones, Alexandra Rojas, and Andrew Castrucci, New York, NY

2017
Points of Departure; Meditations on Mapping, Mercer Gallery (Monroe Community College), curated by Colleen Buzzard and Karen Sardisco, Rochester, NY
INTERFERENCE, Bullet Space, curated by Alexandra Rojas, New York, NY
Abstract Art in Dialogue, NYSID Gallery and organized by The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Co-curated by Dr. Zhijian Qian and Dr. Yu Ding, New York, NY

2016
PULSE - Contemporary Art Fair, Robert Henry Contemporary, Miami, FL

2015
Brooklyn B...