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==Studies, exhibitions, and prizes== {{BLP unsourced section|date=April 2025}} {{Resume-like|section|date=April 2025}} * 1957 - Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting); jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe) * 1960 - [[Action painting]] * 1961 - Received school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim * 1962 - Began the exclusive use of black and white as a means of visual and aesthetic expression * 1965 - Studied [[lithography]] at the [[Ecole des Beaux Arts]], Paris; geometric experiments led 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 digital art in a museum, ARC, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris / France * 1972 - Sequential computer drawings were introduced; began to work on fixed structures: the cube * 1973 - Received awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in [[Ljubljana]] * 1977 - Began 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 - Extended work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube. Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs * 1990 - Received the Golden Nica at 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]]; received an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts * 1998 - Started to use color (after using black and white for more than three decades) to show the complexity of the work through differentiation * 2002 - Designed and built small PCs to run his program "space.color" and since 2004 also the program "subsets". The resulting images were visualized on LCD flat panels in a slow, non-repetitive motion. * 2006 - Received the [ddaa] Digital Art Award (for digital pioneering- and original geometric research), Köl * 2013 - Received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art * 2013 - Honored with retrospective show The Algorithm of Manfred Mohr, 1963-now at ZKM - Media Museum, Karlsruhe * 2013 - Chosen as Featured Artist in a solo show at ArtBasel/Basel with bitforms gallery
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