Egon Zippel was born in Timișoara, Romania, in 1960, to German parents. When Romania's future dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, rose to power in the early 1960s, the Zippels presciently left in 1964 for the Mannheim-Heidelberg region of Germany, to begin life anew.

After a stint in the German army, 1979-1981, Egon studied graphic design at the University of Mannheim and received a Fulbright scholarship, including an introductory month at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the academic year of 1984-85 at the University of Texas in Austin. Over the next few years, he studied computer graphics at the New York Institute of Technology. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute for New Media at the Städel Art Academy in Frankfurt, 1993-1994.

During the early '90s, Egon lived in Milan, Italy, until settling in New York City in 1996. 

Egon believes in predetermination as well as free will and everything in between. Wrestling with these contradictions makes life playful and infinitely more complex - his modus operandi: Follow your ideas.


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