Erwin Redl

Erwin Redl was born in 1963 in Gföhl, Austria. The artist lives in Brackney, Pennsylvania and New York City. In 1993, after finishing his studies at the Vienna Music Academy with a BM in Composition (1990) and BM in Electronic Music (1991), he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in computer art at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 1995). Erwin Redl’s work is informed by his combination of conceptual-structural thinking and profound craftsmanship both in electronic and traditional media. The artist manages a studio in New York City and a large production facility in Brackney, Pennsylvania with several studio assistants and technicians. The artist’s work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, covering the Whitney Museum's facade with three multi-color LED veils. In 2008 Erwin Redl created a sound and light installation for the Austrian Pavilion at the World Expo in Zaragoza, Spain. After being awarded the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge Grant, his largest project series of nine large-scale public art installations were completed in 2016 for the City of Spartanburg, SC. Erwin Redl’s monumental kinetic light installation “Whiteout” was featured during the fall winter 2017/18 at the prestigious solo exhibition series at Madison Square Park in New York City. He won several major public art competitions with installations for the new New York Police Academy in Queens, NY, the San Diego International Airport, CA and the Union Square / Market Street subway station in San Francisco, CA. His work is collected by prestigious national and international institutions, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Milwaukee Art Museum and Borusan Contemporary Istanbul as well as by prominent private collectors.