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Born on June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim (Germany)
Studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983
Lives and works in New York since 1981
1957
Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting)
Jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe)
1960
Action paintings
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
Founding member of the seminar 'Art et Informatique' University of Vincennes, Paris
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
Sequencial 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
Renews 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 is published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich
1997
Is elected a member of the American Abstract Artists
Receives an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts
1998
Selected for Pioneering Artists, Siggraph Orlando, Florida
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 pc's to run his program "space.color" and since 2004 also the program "subsets"
The resulting images are visualized in real time on LCD flat panels in a slow, non repetitive motion
2006
Receives the d.velop digital art award [ddaa] (for digital pioneering- and original geometric research), Köln / Bremen