Born 1923, Caracus, Venezuela. Died 2019, Paris, France.
EDUCATION
1940-45 Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Labyrinthus. Carlos Cruz-Diez. La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
Carlos Cruz-Díez, Color in Space, Crita Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Cruz-Díez. El Color Haciéndose, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Panama, Panama City, Panama
2018 Carlos Cruz-Diez: Spatial Chromointerference, Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Houston, TX
2017 Carlos Cruz-Diez Autonomía del Color, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX USA
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Mastering Colour, Puerta Roja Gallery, Hong Kong, China.
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Galerie Boisséree, Germany, Cologne
Chroma, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Savannah GA, USA
Showroom: Vivir en una obra de arte, Odalys Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2016 Carlos Cruz-Diez: Intégrations dans l’Architecture, Barnes International Realty, Paris, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Du Statique au Dynamique, Galerie Denise René, Paris France
Efímeras, La Caja, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
2015 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Transfiguration de la couleur, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
Carlos Cruz-Díez: Chromatic Transfiguration, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Didaktik und Dialektik der Farbe, Das Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt am See, Germany
Didáctica y dialéctica del color, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Galería de Arte de la Biblioteca Sartenejas,
Caracas, Venezuela
Short Cuts, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Carlos Cruz-Diez: A Chromatic Condition, Sicardi Gallery, Houston TX
2014 Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Circonstance et Ambiguite de la Couleur, Fondation Vasarely, Vasarely, France;
Traveled to University Museum and Art Gallery of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China; Hacienda la
Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz France
2013 Carlos Cruz-Diez: El color en el espacio y en el tiempo, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
2012 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
2011 Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
2010 Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2008 (In)formed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Americas Society, New York, New York
2007 Carte Blanche Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
La Couleur Dans L’Espace, Maison de l’Amerique llatine, Paris, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2006 Volume réel, couleur virtuelle, Maison des Arts, Châtillon, France
Certain 50 x 50 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Sala Trasnocho Arte Contacto TAC, Caracas, Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez Die farbe im raum, Galerie Konkret Martin Worn, Sulzburg, Germany
Carlos Cruz-Diez Farbe im raum Kleinformate und Multiples, Galerie Emilia Suciu, Ausstellungsdauer,
Germany
Hommage a Cruz-Diez, Stand Meyer-Zafra, Paris, France
La Vida en el Color, Galería Fundación Previsora, Caracas, Venezuela
2005 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Works from the 1950’s to 1970’s, Sicardi Gallery,
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
22 of the future for the future of Vukovar, Muzeum Sztukiw Lodzi, Vukovar, Poland
Universe Sprit du Geometrie, MADI Museum & Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 Realites de la Peinture, Pouchkine Museum, Moscow & Leningrad, Soviet Union
Latin American Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England; National Museum + Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
1988 1910-1980, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 A Brief History of Shaped Modernity, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France
Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520-1970, Museumsplatz, Vienna, Austria
21,39 Jeddah Arts, Al Balad, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Racing the Galaxy, Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
2018 Action <> Reaction, 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam Museumpark,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017 Dialogues concrets, Espace d'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France.
40 años de geometría, Sala de Arte del Centro Cultural El Olivar, San Isidro, Peru.
Todo es movimiento. Op Art y Arte Cinético en la Colección Würth, Museo Würth La Rioja,
Agoncillo, Spain.
De l’original au multiple, Galerie Wagner, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France. Georges
Pompidou et l'art. Une aventure du regard, Château de Chambord, Chambord, France.
Eye Attack. Op Art en kinetische kunst, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands.
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Soto/Cruz-Diez, Galería Artkao La Ventana, Centro de Arte Los Galpones, Caracas, Venezuela
The Urge to Create Visions, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland Kinesthesia: Latin American
Kinetic Art, 1954–1969 - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, United States.
Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, The
Gibbes museum of art, Melbourne, United States.
Destination: Latin America, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA
Abstract Experiments; Latin American Art on Paper after 1950, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Matter of Color, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil An Open Mind, Maddox Arts, London UK
MASTERpieces, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Lucidez, Odalys Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Un Musé Imaginé, Trois Collections Europénnes: Centre Pompidou, Tate MMK, Centre Pompidou, France
Split, Spiegel, Licht, Reflexion, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany
2016 The Illusive Eye: Op Art and the Americas in the 1960s, El Museo del Barrio, New York NY
Sculpture/ Vision, Sicardi Gallery, Houston TX
Eye Attack: Op Art and Kinetic Art 1950-1970, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Denmark
The Sharper Perception, Kinetic Art, Optical and Beyond, GR Gallery, New York NY
Polígrapfa cumple 50 años, Galeria Animal, Vitacura, Chile
Barragán Fetichista, Casa Museo Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico
Vision constructive, Epacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
On Blue, Galerie Denise René- Espace Marais, Paris France
Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris France
MOLAA at Twenty: 1996-2016, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA
Interactive, Galería Odalys, Madrid Spain
Trinity’s College Gallery: The Swing of the Sixties, Highlanes Art Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
Cercle et carré, Galerie Denise René, Paris France
Destination: Latin America, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York NY
In the Studio, A View From Zagreb: Op Art and Kinetic Art, Tate Modern, London UK Parcours 2015, Parc de
sculptures contemporaines, Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France
Das Imaginäre Museum/ An Imaginved Museum. Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK Collections,
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Light Show, Corpartes- Centro de las Artes 660, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Sculpture en partage, Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
2015 Libertad de Expresión: The Art Museum of the Americas and Cold War Politics, Art Museum of the Americas,
Organization of American States, DC
Lightopia, Hofmobiliendepot, Wien, Austria
Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Light Show, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Shuwaiheen Arts Area, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Múltiple. Poligrafa Obra Gráfica, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
N/B. Sélection d'œuvres en noir et blanc, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Visual Deception II: Into the Future, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya City, Japan
2014 Que la Lumiere Soit!, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris France
Modernites Plurielles: De 1905 – 1970, Centre Pompidou, Paris France
2013 Vibrations, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA
Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London UK
Order, Chaos, and the Space Between, Phoeniz Art Museum, Pheonix AZ
Myth and Materiality: Latin American Art from the Permanent Collection 1930-1990, Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Santa Barbara CA
Intersections: MoLAA’s Permanent Collection, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA
Group Exhibition, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Schwarz-Weiss, Kleines Museum - Kultur auf der Peunt, Weissenstadt, Germany
Lignes-Rythmes-Couleurs: De Fanal à la donation André Schweizer, Musée des Beaux-Arts Bibliothèque
Multimédia, Valenciennes, France
2011 Color on Color, Frost Art Museum, Miami Florida
2009 North Looks South: Building the Latinamerican Art Collection, MFAH, Houston, Texas
2007 After Image: Op Art of the 1960’s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, New York
An Architect Collects, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign Arco 07, Stand Galeria Dan, Madrid, Spain
Artistes Estrangers a Paris 1900-2005, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Dialogue Cinétique, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Leopold-Hoesch, Hoeschplatz, Duezn, Germany
L’Abstraction Géometrique, Chateau de Tours, France
La Utopia Cinética, Salas Caja, San Francisco, California
Los Cineticos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Optic Nerve: Perpetual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2006 Cruz-Diez, Gego, Maggi, Soto & Tomasello, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Vancouver, Canada
60 Réalités Nouvelles, Parc Floral de Paris, France
Arte Cinética, Spazio Boccioni, Milan, Italy
Chromatiques, Galerie Konkret, Sulzburg, Germany
Cruce de Miradas Colección Cisneros, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Diversas Constancias, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo, Brazil
European Neo-Constructivism of 1930 - 2000, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Fla.g. Ships, Schwimmende Visionen, Museum de Sant Ratingen, Germany
Horizontales Verticales Sueles, Art Concret, Musee de Pontoise, Pontoise, France
La Utopia Cinética 1955 - 1975, Centro Cultural Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Les Artistes s’Affranchissent, Parc Floral de Vincens, Salon de Timbre, France
Op Art, Joyce Palais Royal, Paris, France
Quadrature de Cercle, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London, Great Britain
Stetes Konkret, Galerie Lelau Sberg, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Sites of Latin American Abstraction, CIFO, Miami, Florida
Une Conquete de l’Art d’Amérique Latine, Oeuvres de la Fundación Daniela Chapard, Biarritz, France
Une Historie de Cinétisme, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Volume Réel, Coleur Virtuelle, Ovres de Carlos Cruz-Diez et Sculptures de Agueda Lozano, Marie de
Chatillon, France
2005 Brought to Light: Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2004 Inverted Utopias, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Parallel Stories, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Beyond Geometry, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California and the Miami
Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2002 Cromosaturacion, XXV Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Heterotopias, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1995 La Transparence dans l’Art du XX Siecle, Musee des Beaux Arts Andre Malraux, La Havre, France
1993 Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century, Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Mouvement, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sidney, Australia
Manifeste, Une historie parallele 1960- 1990, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1992 Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Expo
Seville 92, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
L’Art en Mouvement, Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul, France
Visiones de Americas Instituto de America, Sta. Fe Granada, Spain
1989 Realites de la Peinture, Pouchkine Museum, Moscow & Leningrad, Soviet Union
Latin American Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England; National Museum + Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
1988 La Couleur Seule, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Olympiad of Art, Seoul, Korea
1986 Contrastes de Forma Abstraccion Geometrica, 1910 – 1980, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985 Forty Years of Modern Art 1945 - 1985, Tate Gallery, London, England
1972 12 ans d’Art Contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1968 Cinetisme, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, France
France, Optique, Kunstnernes hus Oslo, Norway
El Arte Cinetico y sus Origenes, Caracas, Venezuela
1967 Lumiere et Mouvement, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
IX Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Lumiere et Mouvement, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Lumiere, Mouvement et Optique, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1964 Nouvelle Tendance, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
First Pilot Show of Kinetic Art, Signals, London, England
Il Bienal Americana de Arte Cordoba, Argentina
L’Aujourd’hui de Demain, Palais St. Vaast, Arras, France
1963 Nove Tendencije 2, Zagreb, Croatia
Esquisse d’ un Salon, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Panorama de la Nouvelle Tendance, Amesterdam, The Netherlands
1962 XXXI Biennale de Venezia, Italy
Anti-Peinture, Hessenhuis, Anvers, Belgium
1961 Le Mouvement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pittsburg International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Galerie Iris Clerc, Paris, France
1960 1661-1961 Pintura Venezolana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1958 Exposition International de Bruxelles, Venezuela Pavillion, Belgium
1953 Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED AWARDS
2002 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, France
1992 Gold Medal. Norwegian International Print Triennale, Fredrikstad, Norway
1981 Order “Andres Bello”, First Class, Caracas, Venezuela
1978 Prize “Carlos Raul Villanueva” XXXVI Salon de Arte Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
1976 Prize “Intervencion del Arte en la Arquitectura”, VI Biennial of Architecture, Venezuela
1971 National Prize of Fine Arts, Venezuela
Internationl Painting Prize Ixth Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1970 First Prize III American Art Biennial, Cordoba, Argentina
1969 Second Prize, Festival International de Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
SELECTED PUBLIC WORKS
1969 Art dans la Rue, organized by le Centre National d'Art Contemporain. Paris, France
Chromosaturation, Labyrinthe pour un lieu public in subway station Odeon,
Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris, France
1975 L'artiste et la ville. Chromatic action in Caracas
Chromoprisme Spacial, luminous projections in the sky. Series of crossings for
pedestrians in various avenues
Induction Chromatique in La Pastora Square
Induction Chromatique in a regular public bus
L’Eté Marseillais, Chromatic action in Marseille, France
Induction Chromatique, Series of crossings for pedestrians in various avenues
Induction Chromatique in a regular public bus
Chromostructure Spaciale, 16 helium balloons of 4m diameter and 100m length
Action Ephémère dans la Ville de Fortaleza, Crossings for pedestrians, Brazil
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque Nationale, Zagreb, Croatia
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimee, Belgium
Centre National d’Art Contemporain Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Collection of Latin American Art, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambrige University, Cambridge, UK
Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Musee de Grenoble, France
Musee de la Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland
Museo Civico, Turin, Italy
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Museo de Arte Moderno “Jesus Soto,” Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, “La Tertulia,” Cali, Colombia
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de la Solidaridad, Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum des 20, Jahrhundert, Vienna, Austria
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Cuxhaven Otterndorf, Germany
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
The Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Museum Rhode Island, School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Muzeum Okregowe, Chelm, Poland
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Quadrat Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Sonja Henie-Musee d’Art Moderne, Hovikodden, Oslo, Norway
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Manneheim, Germany
Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Dr. Peter Ludwig Collection, Cologne, France
Wurth Museum, Schawabish Hall, Germany