Derek Stroup is an artist based in New York. He has participated in numerous presentations including group exhibitions at the Brandhorst Museum—Munich, The Museum of Contemporary Art—San Diego, The Contemporary Museum—Honolulu, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Kohler Art Center, and elsewhere. He is the author of six artist’s books: Tourmaline (2014) Utilities (2013), Every Instance Removed (2008), Candy (2006), Rope Swing Manifesto (2004), and Field Guide (2002). His artist books are distributed through Printed Matter, Inc. in New York, the Florence Loewy Gallery in Paris and Artphilein in Lugano. Publications include photographs in Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics, CrEATe and Tangible both by Gestalten Press and the monograph, Soft Covers by Quint Editions. His work is in the anthology Various Small Books (Referencing the Work Of Ed Ruscha) by the MIT Press with related exhibition Books&Co. at the Gagosian Gallery midtown and the Brandhorst Museum. Recent projects include group exhibitions at BravinLeeProjects in New York and Owning Earth curated by Tal Beery at Unison Arts in the Hudson Valley. He received his BA from Williams College and his MFA from the University of California, San Diego.