Derek Lerner

Born: 1974

Hometown: NYC

Based in: NYC

Derek Lerner is an American contemporary artist currently living and working in NYC whose work explores systems: their creation, control, use and experience of them. Lerner is primarily known for his ink on paper abstract drawings. His art has been exhibited worldwide and in 2015 the MTA commissioned Lerner to create permanent public art for the entire Avenue X subway station in Brooklyn. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded Lerner a fellowship for drawing in 2020.

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Question Icon What inspires you?

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.

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abstract conceptual multidisciplinary

Question Icon What is the best piece of advice you have been given?

Keep your hands moving.

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Credentials

Education

Atlanta College of Art

United States of America, 1995

Awards

NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship for drawing

2020

Peabody Award

2020

Exhibitions

An empty Space to fill

United States of America, 2021

Dataism

United States of America, 2019

Datum Drawing

United States of America, 2019

Shoot The Pump

United States of America, 2018

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