ERWIN REDL b. 1963, Gföhl, Austria Lives in Ohio
Known for his architecturally scaled light installations, Erwin Redl investigates the process of “reverse engineering” by (re-)translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality and 3-D computer modeling back into architectural environments. In this body of work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin. Visual perception works in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the subsequent passage of time.
In Los Angeles, the Pacific Design Center’s new Red Building by Cesar Pelli features four permanent installations by Redl, to be completed in November 2012. He also recently won two major public art competitions in with installations now in progress for the New York Police Academy’s new building in Queens as well as the Union Square / Market Street subway station in San Francisco, California. In 2013 he will open a new installation at the Borusan Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
A computer-controlled 580-foot long outdoor LED-installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, is Redl’s largest work to date, completed in 2010. Among his most memorable of interventions was created for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, in a piece that covered the Whitney Museum's facade with a three multi-color LED veils. In 2008 he was commissioned by the World Expo in Zaragoza, Spain, to create a sound and light installation for the Austrian Pavilion.
Redl’s work is collected privately as well as institutionally including the Whitney Museum of American Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among other national and international museums. His work can also be experienced in the permanent installations he has created for buildings and public spaces in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Arlington, Charlotte, and Birmingham.
Redl was an artist in residence at the Toldeo Museum of Art in Ohio in 2012. His past residencies include the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; MoMA/P.S.1 in Queens, New York; and the Art Omi International Artists Center in Ghent, New York.
He holds two BA’s from Vienna Music Academy in Composition (1993) and Electronic Music (1991), as well as a MFA in Computer Art (1995) from the School of Visual Arts, which he attended in New York on a Fulbright Scholarship.
bitforms gallery | 131 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 | t 212 366 6939 | www.bitforms.com EDUCATION
1995 MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1991 Diploma in Electronic Music, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria 1990 BA in Composition, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria
RESIDENCIES
2012 Toledo Museum of Art, Guest Artist Pavilion Project, Toledo, OH 2 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX 003 2000 Art Omi International Artists Center, Ghent, NY 1999 Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech Republic 1997- MoMA/P.S.1 Studio Residency, Long Island City, Queens, NY 98
AWARDS
2002 State of Lower Austria Media Art Award, St. Pölten, Austria New York Foundation for the Arts, Award for Architecture & Environmental Structures, New York, NY 1 WNET/Channel 13 Reel New York. Web Award, New York, NY 999 1998 International New Media Design Festival, Honorable mention – category Internet Art, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1996 Ars Electronica 96, Honorable mention - category Interactive Art, Linz, Austria 1995 Institute for Computers In The Arts Award, New York, NY MaxHibition ’95 Festival, Honorable mention – category CD-ROM, New York, NY 1993- Fulbright Award to support MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 95 1992 City of Vienna Award for Composition, Vienna, Austria 1991 State of Lower Austria Award for Composition, St. Pölten, Austria 1988 Award for Composition of the “Erste” Bank, Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Lucy in the Sky, Central Subway Union Square / Market Street Station, San Francisco, CA 2013 Diamond Matrix, New York City Police Academy, Queens, NY Meandering, Borusan Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Horizons, Cubes, Formation, and Stalactites, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA 2012 Passing Through Light, Interstate 77 Underpass, Charlotte, NC Michael’s Matrix, Birmingham, AL (private museum) 2011 Sky Bridge Patterns, ZIP & VIBE Residential Towers, Liberty Village, Toronto, Canada Michael Straus, Birmingham, AL (private museum) 2010 NASCAR Hall of Fame, Charlotte, NC Wave, W-Hotel, West Hollywood, Hollywood, CA Flow, 186 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 2009 Matrix XVII, Centennial Towers, San Francisco, CA 2007 Flow, 107 Waverly Place, New York, NY (private residence) Matrix XIII, 267a State Street, Brooklyn, NY (private residence) 2006 Flow, Shirlington Public Library, Arlington, VA Speed Shift, Skinker subway station, St. Louis, MO 2004 Matrix XIV, Bloomberg LP, Lexington Ave, New York, NY 2003 Matrix V, 125 Maiden Lane, New York, NY (office building)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Cincinnati Swing, lobby installation, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Dial, Wright University, permanent installation, Neuroscience building, Dayton, OH
bitforms gallery | 131 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 | t 212 366 6939 | www.bitforms.com 2014 InMotion, bitforms gallery, New York, NY Structures of Time and Space, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA 2013 Floating, In Silence, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 2011 Crystal Matrix II, Design Miami / Swarovski Crystal Palace, Miami, FL Crystal Matrix I, Swarovski, Innsbruck, Austria (flagship store) Fragile Dwellings, set design for dance performance by BODYTRAFFIC, Los Angeles, CA Ausleuchten, Galerie Göttlicher, Stein/Krems, Austria 2010 Fetch, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Speed Shift, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Red Gradient, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2009 Line Fade, WSU Gallery, Wright University, Dayton, OH Speed Shift, Galereya Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine 2008 Fade, Emerson College, Huret and Spector Gallery, Boston, MA Matrix II, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2007 Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Sara Roney Gallery, Paddington, Australia 2006 Fade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO Fade IV, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2005 Matrix XII, Plug-in Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada Dots, Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004 Fade II and Matrix XIII, Haeusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany Fade 1, Capitale Européenne De La Culture, Lille, France 2003 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX 2002 “Light Instalations and Drawings”, Riva Gallery, New York, NY Matrix I, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, NY Calvin Klein Store, temporary installation, Madison Avenue / 60th Street, New York, NY 2001 Matrix III, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Matrix II, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 1999 New Jersey City University Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 444, Apex Art C.P., New York, NY 1998 Spatial Gradient, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, NY 1995 Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna, Austria 1989 Walztanz 60, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Erwin Redl and Stephen Auger, Hyphen Hub, New York, NY thingworld, new media art triennial, National Art Museum of China, Bejing, China 2012 Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2011 The World is Negotiable, Paramount Theater, Boston, MA Matière-Lumière / Matter-Light, Bethune, France Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2010 Behind the Light, Nathan Bernstein Gallery, New York, NY Material Evidence: Phenomenology of Matter, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Madde Işik / Matter - Light, Borusan Music House, Istanbul, Turkey DigitaLife, Macro Future, Rome, Italy 2009 Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, OH 2008 Austrian Pavilion, World Expo, Zaragoza, Spain Sensory Overload, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 2007 Vom Funken zum Pixel / From Flash to Pixel, Martin-Gropius Museum, Berlin, Germany Vienna Art Week, Vienna, Austria 2006 Spektrum Farbe / The Color Spectrum, State Museum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria From Flash to Pixel, Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, China artintime, Sumi, New York, NY Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, NY Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, UK 2005 Spielzeit / Playtime, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht / Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Postmediale Konditionen / Post-media Conditions, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
bitforms gallery | 131 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 | t 212 366 6939 | www.bitforms.com Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Lights on Tampa, Tampa, FL 2004 Licht! / Light!, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany Exit, Creteil, Paris, France Borderline, Maubeuge, France 2003 What the Whitney Don’t Know, TAG Projects, Brooklyn, NY After Image, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA In the Gloaming, Sculpture Park “The Fields”, Omi, NY LIMINAL, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Art Chicago 2003 - Special Project by Creative Time / Häagen Dazs, Chicago, IL 2002 Signal to Noise, Location One, New York, NY E-motion, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Res Magazine Party, EyeBeam Atelier, New York, NY Special Effects, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea Graphic, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Whitney Biennial 2002, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Magic of Light, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, NY 2001 LICHT 2001 / LIGHT 2001, Krems, Austria Liminal, The Space @ Media Triangle, New York, NY Creative Time - Massless Medium, Brooklyn Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY Camera, Lights, Action!, Connecticut College, New London, CT 2000 Essl Museum, Vienna / Klosterneuburg, Austria Yes-No, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia 1999 Another Planet, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY Utopia/Distopia, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico Fairy-tales, Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech Republic Punto Ciego / Blind Spot, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico 1998 Fin de siècle New York a Nantes, Hotel de la Duchesse Anne, Nantes, France Modular Composite, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York, NY Wish You Luck, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY Impakt Festival for Audiovisual Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands 1997 ISEA 97, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Mac Classic - The Immaculate Machine, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY Fragments in Time, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY T0-Public Netbase Chiller Lounge, Museums Quarter, Vienna, Austria 1996 Balance Akte 96 / Balancing Acts 96, State Museum of Lower Austria, Vienna, Austria Password: Ferdydurke, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY Out of the Dark, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY 3rd New York International Video & New Media Festival, New York, NY Ars Electronica 96, Linz, Austria Free Fall, China Town Loft, New York, NY Can You Digit?, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY Power!, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Bit.Movie ’95, Riccione, Italy 1994 Cyber Queer, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY Who’s Got the Body?, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Performance Zone, The Field's Performing Arts Festival, New York, NY 1993 Zur Zeit, KunstHalle Krems, Krems, Austria 1992 Time Based Bar, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria 1991 Ars Electronica 91, Linz, Austria Deutsch – Cesko, Palace Metro Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
INTERNET PROJECTS
1997 You Me And, http://www.hotwired.com/rgb/redl Truth is a Moving Target, http://www.paramedia.net/projects/truth
DISCOGRAPHY
bitforms gallery | 131 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 | t 212 366 6939 | www.bitforms.com 1992 KOMBINAT M - “Hybrid Beat”, Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, Maryland
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LECTURES
2012 UCLA Design Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC 2011 Kasei University, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 2009 Wright State University, Dayton, OH Galereya Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine 2008 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY City University of New York - Dept. of Architectural Technology, Brooklyn, NY Emerson College, Boston, MA American Institute of Architects - Toledo chapter, Toledo, OH Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2007 Cranbrook Academy of Art – Size Matters: Perception at the Edge of Space, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2006 University at Buffalo – Department of Architecture / Department of Media Study, Buffalo, NY University of Washington – Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), Seattle, WA Location One, presentation, New York, NY Bloomberg LLP, New York, NY Bloomberg Space, panel discussion, London, UK 2005 New York Center for Art and Media Studies / Bethel University, New York, NY 2004 University of Manitoba Architecture Department, Winnipeg, Canada 2003 Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects, New York, NY 2002 The Digital Experience, panel discussion, Artists Talk On Art, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY Parsons School of Design, New York, NY New York Studio Program, New York, NY The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 2001 Parsons School of Design, guest critique, New York, NY Siggraph “Digital Sculpture”, New York, NY Feedback, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut 1998 MFA-Photography Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1997 C3 Computer Center, workshop, Budapest, Hungary 1996 Can You Digit?, panel discussion, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY MFA-Photography Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1995 Time in New Media, Symposium “Time”, lecture, Convent of Seckau, Styria, Austria 1993 Parallel Media, Media Lecture Series, Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Write State University, Dayton, OH The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France Museum of the State of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria Art Omi Collection, Ghent, NY Paula Berry, New York, NY
bitforms gallery | 131 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 | t 212 366 6939 | www.bitforms.com Janet Cohen & Daniel Kramarsky, New York, NY Susan Cohen, Baltimore, MD Monroe Denton, Brooklyn, NY Frances Dittmer, Aspen, CO Anthony Grant, New York, NY The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY David Guss, San Diego, CA James R. Hedges, IV, Naples, FL Lyn Hughes, New York, NY Sebastian Kaempf, Brooklyn, NY Michael L. Klein, Midland, TX Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY Elise MacAdam and Stephen Kramarsky, New York, NY Christopher W. McDonald, New Haven, CT Robert Morgan, New York, NY Michael Straus, Birmingham, AL Danica Phleps, Brooklyn, NY Lawrence R. Rinder, Berkeley, CA Jules Rochielle, Los Angeles, CA Saverio Mancina, Boston, MA Mr. And Mrs. Paul C. Schorr, III, Lincoln, NE Cory Snyder and Gary Schuman, Brooklyn, NY Arne Zimmerman, New York, NY
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