Manfred Mohr
b.1938 in Pforzheim, Germany
Lives and works in New York

Manfred Mohr has used a computer to generate his art since 1968 and is considered a pioneer
in this field. Over the last three decades he has influenced many art-students and even
convinced friends to study computer science. He co-founded the seminar "Art et Informatique" at
the Vincenne University (Paris) in 1968 and in 1971, he had a solo exhibition show at the
Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France which became the historic "first" solo exhibition in a
museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a computer.

Mohr's work can be found in major museums like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Joseph
Albers Museum in Bottrop, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum for Concret Art in
Ingolstadt, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Museum Kulturspeicher in Würzburg and numerous
other public and private collections world wide. He has shown in group-shows at the Leo Castelli
Gallery and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Mohr has had one-man shows in many
museums and galleries in New York, Zürich, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Berlin,
Montreal, Sao Paulo, Seoul. He had retrospectives at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in
Ludwigshafen, Germany (1987)and the Joseph Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany (1998)

He received awards from the Biennial in Ljubljana (1973), the Camille Graesser-Preis in Zürich,
Switzerland (1990), he won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (1990) and a
Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (1997). In 1994, the first comprehensive
monograph (hard cover 240 pages) about his work was published by Waser-Verlag in Zürich,
Switzerland. More information about his work, articles and thoughts, can be found at his
website: www.emohr.com