BIOGRAPHY
 

Born 1963, Gföhl, Lower Austria
Lives and works in New York since 1993
Education (selection):

1993-95 MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
1988-91 Diploma in Electronic Music, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria
1988-90 BA in Composition, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria
 
Awards and Scholarships:

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, USA
1999 WNET/Channel 13 Reel New York.Web Award, New York, NY, USA
1998 International New Media Design Festival, Honorable Mention - category Internet Art, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA
1996 Ars Electronica 96, Honorable Mention - category interactive art, Linz, Austria
1995 Institute for Computers In The Arts Award, New York, NY, USA
MaxHibition ’95 Festival, Honorable mention - category CD-ROM, New York, NY, USA
1993-95 Fulbright Scholarship for MFA-studies at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
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
 
Residencies:

2003 Chinati Foundation Residency, Marfa, TX, USA
2000 Art/Omi Residency, Omi, NY, USA
1999 Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech Republic
1997-98 P.S.1 Studio Residency, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY, USA
 
Internet Projects:

1997 you me and
truth is a moving target
 
Solo Shows:

2006 Shirlington Public Library, permanent installation, Arlington, VA
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
University of Washington Seattle, permanent installation, Seattle, WA
2005 Plug-in Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
LILLE 2004 - Capitale Européenne De La Culture, Lille, France
2003 125 Maiden Lane, permanent installation, New York, NY, USA
2002 Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, permanent installation, New York, NY, USA
Calvin Klein Store, temporary installation, Madison Avenue/60th Street, New York, NY
2001 Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
1999 New Jersey City University Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
444, Apex Art C.P., New York, NY, USA
1998 Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, NY, USA
1995 Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna, Austria
 
Group Shows:

2006 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
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, LAMoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Lights on Tampa, Tampa, FL
2004 MATRIX XIV, permanent installation at new Bloomberg LP headquarters, New York, NY
Licht! ("Light!"), Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
Exit, Creteil, Paris, France
Borderline, Mauberge, Paris France
2003 What the Whitney Don’t Know, TAG, Brooklyn, NY, USA
After Image, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
In the Gloaming, Sculpture Park "The Fields", Omi, NY, USA
LIMINAL, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Art Chicago 2003 - Special Project by Creative Time / Häagen Dazs, Chicago, IL, USA
2002 Signal to Noise, Location One, New York, NY, USA
E-motion, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Res Magazine Party, EyeBeam Atelier, New York, NY, USA
Special Effects, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
Graphic, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Biennial 2002, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The Magic of Light, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA
2001 LIGHT 2001, Krems, Austria
Liminal, The Space @ Media Triangle, New York, NY, USA
Creative Time - Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Brooklyn Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Camera, Lights, Action!, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
2000 Essl Collection - Contemporary Art, Vienna / Klosterneuburg, Austria
Yes-No, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
1999 Another Planet, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
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, USA
Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Wish You Luck, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY, USA
Impakt Festival for Audiovisual Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands
1997 ISEA 97, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Mac Classic - The Immaculate Machine, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fragments in Time, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
T0-Public Netbase Chiller Lounge, Museums Quarter, Vienna, Austria
1996 Balance Akte 96, Museum of Lower Austria, Vienna, Austria
Password: Ferdydurke, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Out of the Dark, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
3rd New York Int. Video & New Media Festival, New York, NY, USA
Ars Electronica 96, Linz, Austria
Free Fall, China Town Loft, New York, NY, USA
Can You Digit?, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1995 Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY, USA
Power!, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Bit.Movie ’95, Riccione, Italy
1994 Cyber Queer, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, USA
Who’s Got the Body?, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
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
1989 Walztanz 60, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
 
Bibliography (selection):

2005 Take A Mind Excursion, Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times (10/11/05), Los Angelese, CA
Erwin Redl – Häusler Contemporary, Rüdiger Heise, Applause (1/05), Munich, Germany
Basic Instinct, Elle Decoration (1/05), Munich, Germany
2004 Espace-temps expansé, Rafaël Magrou, Techniques & Architecture (12/04), Paris, France
Die Visite von Schlafes Bruder ("The Visit of Sleep’s Brother"), Abendzeitung (12/22/04), Munich, Germany
Strukturen als Kunst ("Structures as Art"), Anne Erfle, Süddeutsche Zeitung (12/1/04), Munich, Germany
Metamorphose einer Stadt ("Metamorphosis of a City"), Henriette Horny, Kurier (9/5/04), Vienna, Austria
Les lumières d’Erwin, La Voix Du Nord (6/30/04), Lille, France
Light Projects, Jonas Concepcion, Public Art Review (summer 04), Saint Paul, MN, USA
Exit éclairé ("Enlightened Exit"), Marie Lechner, La Libération (3/27/04), Paris, France
Borderline saute les frontiers des pays et des genres artistiques ("Borderline Crosses Geographical And Artistic Boundaries"), Catherine Bédarida, Le Monde (3/18/04), Paris, France
Voyage au cœur de la lumière ("Journey Into The Heart of Light"), Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir (3/18/04), Brussels, Belgium
L’expo qui en met plein la vue, Florent Moreau, La Voix Du Nord (3/12/04), Lille, France
Psychology, Spencer Rathus, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA
2003 Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA
Digital Art, Christine Paul, Thames & Hudson World of Art, London, ISBN 0-500-20367-9
Erwin Redl - Riva Gallery, Frances Richard, Artforum (Februar 2003), New York, NY, USA
2002 Shortlist - Erwin Redl, Solo Show Riva Gallery, The Village Voice (12/16), New York, NY, USA
Erwin Redl - Solo Show Riva Gallery, The New Yorker (12/16), New York, NY, USA
Critics Pick - Solo Show Riva Gallery, Time Out New York (12/5-12), New York, NY, USA
NYFA Quarterly, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fall 02, New York, NY, USA
Space Is The Medium, Kevin Sutavee, Prophecy (issue 2, 2002), New York, NY, USA
Fairy Lights, Aric Chen, DUTCH (Juli/August 2002), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Red, Whit, and Blue, Barbara MacAdam, ARTNews (Summer 2002), New York, NY, USA
The Shallow End, Lance Esplund, Modern Painters (Summer 2002), London, UK
Inside Art - Betting on Future Stars, Carol Vogel, New York Times (06/28)
Communal Curation, Joyce Korotkin, NY Arts (June 2002), New York, NY, USA
What’s Up In New York, Christian Huemer, Parnass (March/April 2002), Vienna, Austria
Moving Images, Dan Bischoff, Star-Ledger (03/07), Newark, NJ
Painting Exuberant Forms With a Palette of Light, Grace Glueck, New York Times (03/01), New York, NY, USA
Show Turns a Spotlight on Light Itself In All Forms,VWilliam Zimmer, New York Times (02/17), New York, NY, USA
Lights fantastic, Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News (02/11), White Plains, NY, USA
The Magic of Light, Antiques & The Arts Weekly (01/18), Newtown, CT
2001 new york, november 8. 2001: a conversation, Arthur C. Danto, Lawrence Rinder, Simona Vendrame, Tema Celeste (Issue 89), New York, NY, USA / Milan, Italy
Tour d’Autriche, Dolores Kainz, H.O.M.E. (December 01/January 02), Vienna, Austria
Ambient Art, Barbara Pollack, Art in America (November 2001), New York, NY, USA
Laser For Less, Michelle Megna, Daily News (08/15), New York, NY, USA
Massless Medium, Roberta Smith, New York Times (07/30), New York, NY, USA
Massless Medium, Kevin Pratt, Time Out New York (07/12-19), New York, NY, USA
Critics’ Picks, Time Out New York (07/05-12), New York, NY, USA
Anchored, Mary Magsamen, Waterfront Week (Volume 11.12, 06/14), Brooklyn, NY, USA
Massless Medium, SHOUT New York (July 2001), New York, NY, USA
Seizing Awareness, Lynn Sullivan, Austria Kultur (05/01), New York, NY, USA
Fairy-Tales, Franklin Sirmans, Sculpture (03/01), Hamilton, New Jersey
feedback:, ArtByte (02/01), New York, NY, USA
2000 If You Can Make It There…, Florentina Welley, Diva (03/00), Vienna, Austria
1999 Punto Ciego ("Blind spot"), Yishai Jusidman, Poliester (Fall 1999), Mexico City, Mexico
Espectro de luz ("Spectrum of Light"), Yishai Jusidman, Reforma (05/26/99), Mexico City, Mexico
Glow with the flow, Sarah Schmerler, Time Out New York (July 1999), New York, NY, USA
1998 Not Much Luck, Dominique Nahas, Review (04/01/98), New York, NY, USA
Truth Is A Moving Target, Intelligent Agent (03/98), New York, NY, USA
1996 The Breath of a Sine Wave, Heather Wagner, Austria Kultur (11/01/96), New York, NY, USA
Austriacos discutem movimento e dialetica ("Austrians Discuss Movement and Dialectic"), Berta Sichel, Estado de Sao Paulo (10/14/96), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Körndel für die Armen in Bosnien ("Grain for the Poor in Bosnia"), Henriette Horny, Kurier (11/25/96), Vienna, Austria
Aufbruch in die digitale Zukunft ("Departure Into the Digital Future"), Reiner B. Schossig, Ausschnitt (09/10/96), Hamburg, Germany
Der Betrachter wird zum Partner ("The Viewer Becomes a Partner"), Gottfried Reichart, Neues Volksblatt (09/04/96), Linz, Austria
Fröhliche Wissenschaft in Linz ("Cheerful Science in Linz"), Henriette Horny, Kurier (09/04/96), Vienna, Austria
Ich schau Dir in den Sensor, Kleines ("I Am Looking Into Your Sensor, Sweety"), Irene Judmayer, OÖ-Nachrichten / "Upper Austrian News" (09/04/96), Linz, Austria
Digital Popeye USA, China edition (07/01/96), Tokyo, Japan
Can You Digit?, Digital Creativity (05/96), San Francisco, CA
Are we having fun yet?, Ann Marlowe, Time Out Magazine (03/27/96), New York, NY, USA
1995 Langsamkeit als Steigerung der Gegenwart ("Slowness as an Increase of Presence"), Henriette Horny, Interview with E. Redl, Eikon 16/17 1995, Vienna, Austria
Endlosschleifen ("Endless Loops"), Horst Christoph, Profil (07/17/95), Vienna, Austria
Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Johanna Hofleitner, Die Presse (07/14/95), Vienna, Austria
Meditation über das Lächeln ("Meditation on a Smile"), Kurier (07/06/95), Vienna, Austria
 
Publications:

2001 Autobiographical Notes, Gföhlerwald Kulturspiegel ("Gföhl Cultural Mirror"), Gföhl, Austria
1997 Zeit In Den Neuen Medien ("Time in New Media"), published in "Zeit Und Ewigkeit" ("Time and Eternity"), edited by Erich Splechtna and Thomas Simon, Catholic University Foundation, Vienna, ISBN 3-9500681-0-4
 
Discography:

1992 KOMBINAT M - "Hybrid Beat", Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, ML, USA
 
Workshops & Lectures:

2006 Bloomberg LLP, presentation, New York, NY
Bloomberg Space, panel discussion, London, UK
2005 New York Center for Art and Media Studies / Bethel University, presentation, New York, NY
2004 University of Manitoba Architecture Department, presentation, Winnipeg, Canada
2003 Wood Street Gallery, presentation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects, presentation, New York, NY, USA
2002 The Digital Experience, panel discussion, Artists Talk On Art, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parsons School of Design, presentation, New York, NY, USA
New York Studio Program, presentation, New York, NY, USA
The Hudson River Museum, presentation, Yonkers, NY, USA
2001 Parsons School of Design, guest critique, New York, NY, USA
Siggraph "Digital Sculpture", presentation, New York, NY, USA
Feedback, presentation, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
1998 MFA-Photography Department, presentation, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
1997 C3 Computer Center, workshop, Budapest, Hungary
1996 Can You Digit?, panel discussion, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
MFA-Photography Department, presentation, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
1995 Time in New Media, Symposium "Time", lecture, Convent of Seckau, Styria, Austria
1993 Parallel Media, Media Lecture Series, Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna
 
Collections:

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Museum of the State of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria

Elizabeth Akkerman, New York, NY, USA
Art Omi Collection, Omi, NY, USA
Paule Berry, New York, NY, USA
Janet Cohen & Daniel Kramarsky, New York, NY, USA
Susan Cohen, Baltimore, MD, USA
Monroe Denton, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Frances Dittmer, Aspen, CO, USA
Anthony Grant, New York, NY, USA
The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY, USA
James R. Hedges, IV, Naples, FL, USA
Sebastian Kaempf, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Michael L. Klein, Midland, TX, USA
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, USA
Elise MacAdam & Stephen Kramarsky, New York, NY, USA
Robert Morgan, New York, NY, USA
Danica Phleps, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Lawrence R. Rinder, New York, NY, USA
Mr. And Mrs. Paul C. Schorr, III, Lincoln, NE, USA
Arne Zimmerman, New York, NY, USA

And other private collections