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STUDIES, EXHIBITIONS, PRIZES


1957 Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting)
Jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe)

1960 Action Painting

1961 Receives school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim

1962 Begins the exclusive use of black and white as means of visual and aesthetic expression

1965 Studies Lithography at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts , Paris
Geometric experiments lead to hard edge painting

1968 First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris
Systematization of the picture content

1969 Publication of the visual book 'Artificiata I'. First drawings with a computer.

1971 First one-man show of computer generated art in a Museum,
ARC, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris / France

1972 Sequential computer drawings are introduced
Begins to work on fixed structures: the cube

1973 Receives awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in Ljubljana

1977 Begins to work with the 4-D hypercube and graph-theory

1980 Workphase: Divisibility, dissection of cube

1982 Quasi-organic growth programs on the cube

1987 First retrospective exhibition, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen. Renewed work on the 4-D hypercube. Four-dimensional rotation as generator of signs

1989 Extends work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube. Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs

1990 Receives the 'Golden Nica' at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz and the 'Camille Graeser Prize' in Zürich

1991 Workphase: Laserglyphs, diagonal-paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser

1994 The first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich

1997 Was elected a member of the American Abstract Artists
Receives an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts

1998 Starts to use color (after using black and white for more than three decades) to show the complexity of the work through differentiation

2002 Designs and builds small PCs to run his program "space.color"
and since 2004 also the program "subsets".
The resulting images are visualized on LCD flat panels in a slow, non repetitive motion

2006 Receives the {Link without Title} Digital Art Award (for digital pioneering- and original geometric research), Köln



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