Editing Manfred Mohr (section)

==Life and career==
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Mohr started his career as an [[action painting|action painter]] and [[jazz musician]]. He began using a computer in 1969 because of a growing interest in creating [[algorithmic art]]. He lived in [[Barcelona]] in 1962 and in [[Paris]] between 1963 and 1983.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

His early [[computer art|computer works]] are algorithmic and based on his former drawings with a strong attitude on rhythm and repetition. In 1990 he was awarded the [[Prix Ars Electronica]] (Golden Nica) at [[Ars Electronica|the Ars Electronica]] festival in [[Linz]], [[Austria]]. He maintained an art studio in [[Paris]] from 1963 to 1983. Mohr attended Kunst + Werkschule in [[Pforzheim]] and [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1968 he co-founded the seminar "Art et Informatique" at the [[University of Vincennes]] and in May 1971 had a solo exhibit at  ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bibliothequedesartsdecoratifs.com/cgi-bin/visu.pl?75505 |title=Manfred Mohr computer graphic : une esthétique progammée A-R-C- Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1971 |access-date=2009-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923184739/http://www.bibliothequedesartsdecoratifs.com/cgi-bin/visu.pl?75505 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> That exhibition has become known historically as the first [[solo exhibition|solo show]] in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital computer.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Recent solo exhibitions of his work include [[Art Basel]] "Art Features" with [[bitforms gallery]] in [[Basel]],<ref>[https://archive.today/20130805023050/http://www.artbasel-online.com/index.php5?id=311476&compact=0&path=Galleries&Action=showCompany Manfred Mohr Featured Artist ArtBasel | Basel]</ref> DAM Gallery in [[Berlin]], Mueller-Roth Gallery in [[Stuttgart]], Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in [[London]], bitforms gallery in [[New York City]], Galerie Charlot in [[Paris]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsarttoday.tv/expo/galerie-charlot-manfred-mohr/|title = Galerie Charlot - Manfred Mohr}}</ref> the Museum of Kulturspeicher in [[Würzburg]], and Galerie Wack in [[Kaiserslautern]].

Major retrospectives of his work include [[ZKM]] | Media Museum  in Karlsruhe in 2013,<ref>[https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2013/06/the-algorithm-of-manfred-mohr Manfred Mohr exposition ZKM, Karlsruhe]</ref> the [[Kunsthalle Bremen|Kunsthalle in Bremen]] in 2007, Joseph Albers Museum in [[Bottrop|Bottrop, Germany]] in 1998, and the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in [[Ludwigshafen am Rhein|Ludwigshafen, Germany]] in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Mohr's work is collected by the [[Centre Pompidou]] in Paris, the Joseph Albers Museum, the [[Museum Ludwig|Ludwig Museum]] in [[Cologne]], the Museum for Concret Art in [[Ingolstadt]], the [[Kunstmuseum Stuttgart]], [[Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal|Musee d’Art Contemporain]] and [[Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal|Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal]], the [[Stedelijk Museum]] in Amsterdam, [[Musée de l'Élysée]] in Switzerland, and many others. Mohr has had numerous solo exhibitions in both museums and galleries in New York, [[Zürich]], [[Cologne]], Paris, Amsterdam, [[Stuttgart]], Berlin, [[Montreal]], [[São Paulo]], and [[Seoul]]. Additionally, he has participated in group exhibitions at the [[Leo Castelli]] Gallery and at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Mohr has received many awards including the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art,<ref>[http://www.siggraph.org/discover/news/acm-siggraph-announces-award-recipients-2013 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award]</ref> 2006 (ddaa) Digital Art Award Cologne/Berlin,<ref>[http://www.ddaa-online.de/manfred-mohr-52 ddaa - d.velop digital art award, 2006]</ref> a fellowship from [[New York Foundation for the Arts]] in 1997, the 1990 [[Prix Ars Electronica|Golden Nica]]<ref>[http://archive.aec.at/#22794 Arts Electronica, Golden Nica, Computer Graphics, 1990]</ref>  from [[Ars Electronica]] in Linz, the 1990 Camille Graeser Prize <ref>[http://www.camille-graeser-stiftung.ch/body_3.html Camill Graeser Stiftung, 1990]</ref> in [[Zürich]], and the 1973 Ljubljana Print Biennial. In 1994, the first comprehensive monograph on his work was published by Waser-Verlag in [[Zürich]].<ref>Lieser, Wolf. ''Digital Art''. Langenscheidt: h.f. ullmann. 2009 pp.163-167</ref>