Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama)
(b. 1935)

Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) grew up in Nagoya, Japan, where his father was a well known maker of Shinto shrines. He has lived and worked in New York City and upstate New York since 1961.
His work has been identified with so-called “Optical Art” since the Museum of Modern Art launched the much-noticed “Responsive Eye” exhibition in the 1960s. His main connection with the other artists of that “movement” is an abiding admiration for the Bauhaus group. He also became part of Yoshihara Jiro’s Gutai Pinacotheca group in Osaka, Japan in the early 1960s.

https://tadasuke.kuwayama.com/

B-171 
1964
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas 
38 × 38 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78396?artist_id=5776&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

 Richard Anuszkiewicz 
(1930 - 2020)
 

Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. The son of Polish immigrants, he developed a geometric style. He was one of the leading figures in the Op Art movement during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Anuszkiewicz

The Cardinal Sanctuary
1963
Liquitex on hardboard 
121.6 × 121.9 cm.
The National Gallery, Washington DC.
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/176356-cardinal-sanctuary

Michael Kidner
1917–2009)
 

Michael James Kidner RA  was a British op artist. Active from mid-1960s, Kidner was an early exponent of the genre. Through his interest in mathematics, he was part of the Constructivism movement and chaos and wave theories influence his work. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kidner

Yellow, Blue and Violet
1963
Oil on canvas
152 × 167 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom 

 Yaacov Agam
(b. 1928)
 

Yaacov Agam born Yaacov Gibstein, has been and continues to be a leading Israeli artist. As a sculptor and experimental artist, he is most well-known for his influence on optical and kinetic art, both of which stress change and movement. Even at the beginning of his career, Agam created abstract, kinetic work, often incorporating light and sound, that placed a focus on viewer participation. This strategy of encouraging active involvement from the spectator was still very rare at the time, but this has remained at the core of his practice throughout his career. 

https://fineart.ha.com/artist-index/yaacov-agam.s?id=500019224&ic3=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-LongDescriptionSMP-111020

Rainbow Bright
2006 
Screenprint in colors on paper
61.6 x 88.9 cm
Private collection (Sold on Dec 17, 2025)
https://fineart.ha.com/itm/prints-and-multiples/yaacov-agam-b-1928-rainbow-bright-2006screenprint-in-colors-on-paper24-1-4-x-35-inches-61/a/18231-41013.s

 Rogelio Polesello
(1939 - 2014)
 

Rogelio Polesello was an Argentine painter, muralist and sculptor. He was best known for making Op art (or optical art) known in Latin America. He won two Konex Awards; one in 1982 and another in 2012. He was born in Buenos Aires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Polesello

Arco iris (Rainbow)
19283
Silkscreen print
58 x 44 cm 
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, United States

Ray Thorburn
(1937 - 2023)

Raymond Wallace Thorburn was a New Zealand artist, art educator and museum director.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Thorburn_(artist)

Modular 13, series 2
1970
acrylic on hardboard
101.4 × 101.4 cm 
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43822?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

Victor Vasarely
(1906 - 1997)

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely

DIA OR CF
1968
serigraphy
68 x 68 cm
Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc 9, Czechia