Erwin Redl

My work is based on research into the phenomenological nature of visual perception. The emphasis is on reframing the relationship between traditional fine art media and the ever increasing possibilities of digital media. The artworks reflect upon the condition of art making after the “digital experience”, how to be an artist after the advent of a networked, screen mediated world.

The formal approach to various media I employ engages in binary logic. I assemble the material according to a narrow set of self-imposed rules which often incorporate complex algorithms, controlled randomness and other methods inspired by computer code. My work is informed by a combination of conceptual-structural thinking and profound craftsmanship both in electronic and traditional media. With an MFA in Computer Art from School of Visuals Arts in New York and a BA in Music Composition from the University of Vienna, Austria I am able to expand my practice beyond the traditional Fine Art context.

Since 1997, I have investigated the process of “reverse engineering” by (re )translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality and 3D computer modeling back into architectural environments by means of large scale light installations. In this body of work, space is experienced as a second skin, our social skin, which is transformed through my artistic intervention. Due to the very nature of its architectural dimension, participating by simply being “present” is an integral part of the installations. Our visual perception experiencing those large-scale installations works in conjunction with corporeal motion, and the subsequent passage of time.

The formal aspect of my work becomes easily accessible through conscious aesthetic reduction to a minimalist vocabulary. Interpretation and understanding of this characteristic is dependent upon the viewer’s subjective references. Equally, the various interactions between the visitors within the context of the installation re-shape each viewer’s subjective references and reveal a complex social phenomenon.

The medium light refers directly to the aesthetic of virtual reality. The ephemeral nature of this particular medium is the ideal representation of the pure structural logic which underlies my work. At the same time the active light in my installations transforms structural logic directly into an intense corporeal sensation without traditional art media’s detour through the materiality of objects and reflected light.

Born 1963 in Gföhl, Austria - Moved to the US in 1993 - lives in New York and Brackney, Pennsylvania

EDUCATION (selection)
1993-95 MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1988-91 Diploma in Electronic Music, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria
1988-90 BA in Composition, Music Academy, Vienna, Austria

RESIDENCIES
2012 Guest Artist Pavilion Project, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2003 Chinati Foundation Residency, Marfa, TX
2000 Art/Omi Residency, Omi, NY
1999 Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech Republic
1997-98 P.S.1 Studio Residency, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS
2020 Colene Brown Art Prize, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Architectural Lighting Design Award, Architectural Lighting Magazine, Washington, DC
IES Illumination Award of Merit, Illumination Engineering Society, New York, NY
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, Columbus, OH
2018 CODAawards by CODAworx, category Public Spaces, Madison, WI
IESNYC Lumen Award, Illumiation Engineering Society, New York, NY
2002 State of Lower Austria Media Art Award, St. Pölten, Austria
NY Foundation for the Arts, Award for Architecture & Environmental Structures, New York, NY
1999 WNET/Channel 13 Reel New York.Web Award, New York, NY
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
1993-95 Fulbright Stipend for MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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

PUPLIC ART PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2024 San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
Glass City Riverwalk, Toledo, OH
2022 Martin Luther King Bridge, Toledo, OH
Glass City Convention Center, Toledo, OH
2021 Metro Crenshaw / LAX Corridor, Crenshaw / Expo Subway Station, Los Angeles, CA
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Pedestrian Park, New Orleans, LA
Channel Side Drive Tunnel, Tampa, FL
Central Subway Union Square / Market Street Station, San Francisco, CA
2019 Anthony Wayne Bridge, Toledo, OH
Moseley Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2018 Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship Terminal, Miami, FL
2017 Tampa International Airport, Tampa, FL
Syracuse Connective Corridor, Syracuse, NY
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light, Spartanburg, SC
Lane Avenue Gardens, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2015 Van der Donck Park, Yonkers, New York
Neuro Science Building, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2014 New York City Police Academy, New York, NY
2012 Interstate 77 Underpass, Charlotte, NC
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2011 ZIP & VIBE Residential Towers, Liberty Village, Toronto, Canada
2010 NASCAR Hall of Fame, Charlotte, NC
WAVE, W-Hotel Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
2009 MATRIX XVII, Centennial Towers, San Francisco, CA
2006 FLOW, Shirlington Public Library, Arlington, VA
SPEED SHIFT, Skinker subway station, St. Louis, MO
Nocturnal Flow, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA

PRIVATE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2025 Media Sculpture Park, Tazlar, Turkey
2021 Ahmet Kocabiyik (private collection), Rhinebeck, NY
2020 MedPace Headquarter, Cincinnati, OH
2019 713 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Neuro Science Center, Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH
2017 Promenade Park Depot, Toledo, OH
2015 Cincinnati Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2014 Ahmet Kocabiyik (private collection), New York, NY
2013 Borusan Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2012 Michael Straus (private museum), Birmingham, AL
2011 Michael Straus (private museum), Birmingham, AL
2010 FLOW, 186 Fifth Ave (stairwell installation), New York, NY
2007 FLOW, 107 Waverly Place (private residency), New York, NY
MATRIX XIII, 267a State Street (private residency), Brooklyn, NY
2005 MATRIX XIV, Bloomberg LP, Lexington Ave, New York, NY
2003 MATRIX V, 125 Maiden Lane (office building), New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Fondation EDF, Paris, France
Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
2017 Madison Square Park, New York, NY
KEB Hana Bank media façade, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2015 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 Toledo Museum of Art – Glass Pavilion, Toledo, OH
2011 Art Miami / Swarovski Crystal Palace, Miami, FL
Swarovski Flagship Store, Innsbruck, Austria
Fragile Dwellings, set design for dance performance by BODYTRAFFIC, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Göttlicher, Stein/Krems, Austria
2010 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2009 WSU Gallery, Wright University, Dayton, OH
Galereya Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
2008 Emerson College, Huret and Spector Gallery, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2007 Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Sara Roney Gallery, Paddington, Australia
2006 Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 Plug-in Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Haeusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
LILLE 2004 - Capitale Européenne De La Culture, Lille, France
2003 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2002 Riva Gallery, New York, NY
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, NY
Calvin Klein Store, Madison Avenue / 60th Street, New York, NY
2001 Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
1999 New Jersey City University Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
444, Apex Art C.P., New York, NY
1998 Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, NY
1995 Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1989 Walztanz 60, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Seeing Red, Looking Blue, Feeling Green, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
2021 Aesthetica Art Prize 2021, York Art Gallery, York, United Kingdom
2019 Architecture Pure, State Gallery of Lower Austria, Krems, Austria
2017 Illuminated (space), Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2016 Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
2015 Spatial Illumination – 9 Lights in 9 Rooms, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Nahe Ferne (“Close Farness”), State Museum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria
2014 ArtsX, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Alles Papier! (“All Paper!”), Haeusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
Cycle 9, Lilienfeld Abbey, Austria
International Triennial of Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Simply Drawn: Gifts to the Columbus Museum from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
2013 Zibi Bilyk (“Pyrmont”) and Erwin Redl (“Cracks”)
Sara Roney Gallery at Depot Gallery II, Waterloo, Sydney, Australia
2012 Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2011 Paramount Theater, Boston, MA
Matière-Lumière (“Matter - Light”), Bethune, France
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 I?ik (“Matter - Light”), Borusan Music House, Istanbul, Turkey
DigitaLife, Macro Future, Rome, Italy
2009 Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland, OH
2008 World Expo 2008 Austrian Pavilion, 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
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, LAMoCA, 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, 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 Int. 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, 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

LECTURES – PRESENTATIONS – PANELS
2019 CODAsummit, El Paso, TX
2018 Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Madison Square Park / Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2017 Grant Makers in the Arts Convention, Detroit, MI
Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
Accessing Public Art, Madison Square Art Symposium, NY
Breathing Lights, keynote speaker, Proctors, Schenectady, NY
University of Wisconsin STOUT, Menomonie, WI
2016 The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2015 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2014 Hyphen Hub, New York, NY
University of Wisconsin STOUT, Menomonie, WI
2013 MFA Computer Art Dept. - School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
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, SUNY 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, Austria


COLLECTIONS
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Frederik R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

State Museum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, Austria
Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey

Robert D. Bielecki, New York, New York
Art Omi Collection, Omi, New York
Paula Berry, New York, New York
Janet Cohen & Daniel Kramarsky, New York, New York
Susan Cohen, Baltimore, Maryland
Monroe Denton, Brooklyn, New York
Frances Dittmer, Aspen, Colorado
Anthony Grant, New York, New York
The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, New York
David Guss, San Diego, California
James R. Hedges, IV, Naples, Florida
Lyn Hughes, New York, New York
Sebastian Kaempf, Brooklyn, New York
Michael L. Klein, Midland, Texas
Ahmet Kocabiyik, New York, New York / Istanbul, Turkey
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York
Elise MacAdam and Stephen Kramarsky, New York, New York
Saverio Mancina, Boston, Massachusetts
Christopher W. McDonald, New Haven, Connecticut
Linda and Jim Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio
Robert Morgan, New York, New York
James Mounger, New Orleans, Louisiana
Gerald Powers, Cincinnati, Ohio
Michael Straus, Birmingham, Alabama
Danica Phleps, Brooklyn, New York
Margie and Lou Rauh, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lawrence R. Rinder, Berkeley, California
Jules Rochielle, Los Angeles, California
Mr. And Mrs. Paul C. Schorr, III, Lincoln, Nebraska
Thomas L. Safran, Los Angeles, California
Cory Snyder and Gary Schuman, Brooklyn, New York
Arne Zimmerman, New York, New York