| 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 |