Manfred Mohr

Manfred Mohr studied at Pforzheim Academy. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are new media art and computer art. Work by Manfred Mohr is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Vanderbilt Museum of Art, Print Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art.

section Mohr started his career as an action painter and jazz musician. Inspired by composer Pierre Barbaud, Mohr taught himself programming in 1969 and began creating computer-generated drawings and algorithmic art. He lived in Barcelona in 1962 and in Paris between 1963 and 1983. His early computer works are algorithmic and based on his former drawings with a strong attitude on rhythm and repetition. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica) at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. He maintained an art studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983. Mohr attended Kunst + Werkschule in Pforzheim and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1968 he co-founded the seminar "Art et Informatique" at the University of Vincennes and in May 1971 had a solo exhibit at ARC – Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. That exhibition has become known historically as the first solo show in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital computer. Recent solo exhibitions of his work include Art Basel "Art Features" with bitforms gallery in Basel, DAM Gallery in Berlin, Mueller-Roth Gallery in Stuttgart, Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London, bitforms gallery in New York City, Galerie Charlot in Paris, the Museum of Kulturspeicher in Würzburg, and Galerie Wack in Kaiserslautern. Major retrospectives of his work include ZKM | Media Museum in Karlsruhe in 2013, the Kunsthalle in Bremen in 2007, Joseph Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany in 1998, and the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany in 1987. Mohr's work is collected by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Joseph Albers Museum, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum for Concret Art in Ingolstadt, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Musee d’Art Contemporain and Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, and many others. Mohr has had numerous solo exhibitions in both museums and galleries in New York, Zürich, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Berlin, Montreal, São Paulo, and Seoul. Additionally, he has participated in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Mohr has received many awards including the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, 2006 (ddaa) Digital Art Award Cologne/Berlin, a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 1997, the 1990 Golden Nica from Ars Electronica in Linz, the 1990 Camille Graeser Prize in Zürich, and the 1973 Ljubljana Print Biennial. In 1994, the first comprehensive monograph on his work was published by Waser-Verlag in Zürich.

• Illustration — Piece "P-306-O" (1980/82). Acryl/ Canvas/ Wood/ 4 parts • Illustration — Piece "P-792_32" (2000-2007). Pigment ink on Canvas/ Wood • Illustration — Piece "P1640_1322" (2014). Pigment ink on Canvas • Illustration — Piece "P1611_5220" (2012/13). Pigment ink on Canvas