Deric Carner is a collector and manipulator of signs and messages, replaying them in speculative relation to media and narrative. He makes drawings, posters, publications and the occasional performance.
Carner has had solo exhibitons at Ping Pong Gallery (SF, 2008), 21 Grand (Oakland, 2007) and 5er (Rotterdam, 2004); Group shows at Geisai (Miami, 2008), Silverman Gallery (SF, 2008), ICA (Philadelphia, 2008); Performances at the Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2006), CAC (Vilnius, 2005) and Kunstverein Malkasten (Duesseldorf, 2005). Carner is a member of Kunsole, a multimedia collaborative project recently on view at the San Francisco Arts Commission Grove Street space and at Swissnex (SF, 2008). Carner is a Resident Artist at Root Division, San Francisco.
This is Art
CURRENT
The Artists of ZYZZYVA, Mina Dresden Gallery, 312 Valencia Street, SF, June 20 - July 18
Upcoming: KIOSK – Modes of Multiplication, September 2009 to March 2010 at the Kulturforum in Berlin, organized by Kunstbibliothek
RECENT
Curation:
LEAVE THE CAPITAL,
Root Division,
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness) SF June 10-27,
Press: SF Chronicle | Guardian
Curation: Three Pieces, P.P.O.W Gallery, 511 W 25th ST, Rm 301, NYNY, June 2
Hypnotic Show, Artists Space, NYC, February 27. Read review on Sideshow
Retractions, group show at Root Division, SF, Jan. 7-24, 2009.
Reviewed in Artweek and on KQED.org
GEISAI Miami, booth hosted by Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Dec. 2-7, 2008
San Francisco Arts Commission Grove Street, KUNSOLE installation/performance, March-April 2008
ZYZZYVA, Fall 2008 #83, Artwork featured in journal of West Coast writers and artists
SUM magasin for samtidskunst (#2), 6 page artist project in Danish art magazine.
