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ArchiveBorn 1938 in Germany
Lives and works in New York.
Manfred Mohr has used a computer to generate his art for the past four decades. Recently the subject of a retrospective at Kunsthalle Bremen, Mohr’s work is collected by the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; and Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan. He has also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe; and Leo Castelli Gallery. Mohr is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Golden Nica from Ars Electronica; the Camille Graesser-Preis, Zurich; and D.velop Digital Art Award.
Mohr co-founded the "Art et Informatique" seminar in 1969 at Vincenne University in Paris, and his first major solo museum exhibition, Une esthétique programmée, took place in 1971 at the 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 computer. During that show Mohr demonstrated for the first time in public a Benson flatbed plotter and the production of computer-generated drawings.
 Manfred Mohr, P-1011 installation view, LCD Screen, PC, custom software, 57 x 30 x 50 cm, 2005. |
