Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, Dreyblatt is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and is the Vice-Director of the Visual Arts Section. He was Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022. Dreyblatt studied Media Art with Woody and Steina Vasulka and music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier.
His artistic practice of the last 30 years has ranged from large staged multi-day performances ("The Memory Projects", 1995-2001), involved installations (such as "From the Archives", 1999; "The Wunderblock", 2000; "Turntable History", 2009) and lenticular wall works (such as "Ephemeris Epigraphica", 2006 and “Writing Cage", 2012) as well as interactive artistic research projects such as “Performing the Black Mountain Archive” (2015) at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art. At the same time he has continued to develop his unique work in composition and music performance.
Dreyblatt's visual artworks create complex textual and spatial visualizations for memory. These projects, which reflect on such themes as recollection and the archive, include permanent installations, digital room projections, dynamic textual objects and multi-layered lenticular text panels and public art works.
He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums and public spaces such as the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Jewish Museum in New York; the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna, the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen and Gallery e/static in Turin. Permanent public art works are on display at the Königsplatz in Munich, the HL Holocaust Center in Oslo, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the STASI Prison Memorial in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. He has co-curated exhibitions such as “Terry Fox: Ephemeral Gestures” at the Academy der Künste which has toured throughout Europe.
Dreyblatt has recieved numerous commissions and awards including the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in New York, the 'Förderpreis' of the Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin and a residency at the Center for Arts, Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.