Deric Carner is a collector and manipulator of signs and messages, replaying them in speculative relation to media and narrative. He makes drawings, posters, books, newspapers and the occasional performance.

Carner has had solo and two person 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 current Resident Artist at Root Division, San Francisco.