Karl Mann (b. 1930) was an American artist known for his work in the medium of collage. Born in 1930, Mann arrived in New York from Chicago at 18 in 1948 and had his first solo exhibition in 1955. Despite his prolific career, he never acquired the same renown of artists whose work his resembles, from Jess to Bruce Connor.

Self taught, Mann started his career making mosaic pictures from seeds. As Ken Johnson writes in The New York Times on the occasion of the artist’s career retrospective in 2002, “some collages from the early 1960’s have a combination of raw physicality and formal elegance that calls to mind Robert Rauschenberg. But Mr. Mann has generally tended towards an unabashedly flagrant surrealism.”

Mann lives and works in New York.