Derek Lerner

First Name

Derek

Last Name

Lerner

Age

25-34

Which of the following best describe you?

Professional Creative

How often are you the first among your friends to try something new?

All the time

What do you want people to know most about you?

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 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.

What is your website address?

http://www.derek-lerner.com

How did you hear about Brooklyn Art Project?

a friend