Stan Slutsky
(b. 1941)

Stanford Slutsky was born in Pittsburgh, United States. Slutsky has exhibited in numerous venues and participated in many national and international competitions including Boca Raton Museum of Art 54th annual, All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, and in 2016 his sculpture “Assorted Candy” won at The Armory in West Palm Beach, and has been exhibited at the Sundook Fine Art Galleries in Delray Beach, FL. Some of his solo exhibitions: Coral Springs Museum of Art, The Ft Lauderdale Art Institute, Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Ft Lauderdale Museum of Art.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/stan-slutsky-hexagon-hexagon-shaped

HEXAGON (HEXAGON SHAPED)
1994
Acrylic on canvas
88.9 × 101.6 cm
Private collection

 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

Marina Apollonio
(b. 1940)

Marina Apollonio is an Italian painter and optical artist. She lives and works in Padua.

In 1963, Apollonio produced her first work, Metal Reliefs with Alternate Color Sequences. She shared with other Op-Artists the interest in a depersonalized art, as opposite to Abstract Expressionism. She used industrial material in her process, creating dynamic and fluctuating environments in the user's perception.

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

Circular Dinamic 6S blue + red
1966
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm
Private collection. Sold Friday 18 December 2020, 03:00 PM • Rome 
https://www.finarte.it/asta/arte-moderna-e-contemporanea-roma-2020-12-18/marina-apollonio-dinamica-circolare-6s-blu-rosso-58289?lang=en

Kazys Varnelis
(1917 - 2010)

Kazys Varnelis was an abstract painter from Lithuania. He lived and worked in the United States of America for fifty years, between 1949 and 1998. His distinctive painting style demonstrated optical and three-dimensional illusions based on geometric abstractions and minimal forms. His style combined elements of constructivism, minimalism, and op art. His work is sometimes described as a modernist interpretation of Lithuanian folk art and is owned by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Currier Museum of Art, and other museums.

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

Synchrony
1969
Acrylic on Canvas
198,1cm x 149,2 cm
Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE, Vilnius, Lithuania

Julian Stanczak
(1928 - 2017 )

Julian Stanczak was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker who is considered a central figure of the Op art movement in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. Described as an artist whose work "evinced a tremendous geometric inventiveness", Stanczak is primarily known for his large-scale polychromatic abstract compositions made using acrylic paint on canvas in which he explored the perceptual dimensions of color.

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

And Then There Were Three
1971
acrylic on canvas
121.9 x 365.8cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
https://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/58734/and-then-there-were-three

 Jesús Rafael Soto
(1923–2005)

Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist, a sculptor and a painter.

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

Sin título
Serigraphy
60 x 60 cm
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, United States

<b>Horacio Garcia Rossi</b> 
 (1929–2012)

<i>Horacio Garcia Rossi was an Argentine painter and kinetic artist. In 1960, he was one of the co-founders of the group of artists Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), alongside Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein and Yvaral.</I>

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Garcia_Rossi

Composition in green
1978
Acrylic on canvas
26 x 26 cm
Private collection (sold on 30 October 2023)
https://www.arsvalue.com/en/lots/908892/horacio-garcia-rossi-1920-2012-composition-verte-1978-acrilico-su 

 Getulio Alviani
(1939 - 2018)
 

Getulio Alviani was an Italian painter based in Milan. He is considered to be an important International Optical - kinetic artist. 

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

Superficie a testura vibratile (Surface with vibratile texture)
1965/1968
installation with Aluminium
96 x 96 cm
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Collezione Farnesina, Rome, Italy

François Morellet
(1926–2016)

François Morellet was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical abstract art and post-conceptual art

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

Du jaune au violet (From Yellow to Violet)
1956
oil on canvas
110,3 x 215,8 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/c8E8b4R

 This is one of the rare paintings that François Morellet devoted to colour in the mid-1950s. The two contrasting series of concentric squares demonstrate the dual possibility of going from yellow ta violet according to the laws of colour: by warm tones (orange and red) or cold tones (green and blue). The shades are obtained through an optical blend of lines painted in the basic hues they are composed of. The artist ensured neutrality and precision through the entirely mechanical application of the lines using a paint roller.

Eduardo Mac Entyre
(1929–2014)

Eduardo Mac Entyre was an Argentine artist known for his geometric paintings.

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

Pintura Generativa: Trama General por Circunferencias

1964
oil on canvas
77 × 169 cm
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, United States

Detail

<i>Mac Entyre suggests movement and a concomitant sense of time through the intersection of a fragmentary series of concentric circles with two rectangular grids, each composed of precise horizontal lines. The divergence and convergence of the two patterns, drawn in magenta and blue against a vibrant red background, creates an optical dissonance and inconsistent transparency that produces a dizzying, moiré pattern. -Text by Mark Andrew White</i>

Diego Masi 
(b. 1965)

Diego Masi is an Uruguayan artist. He spent his childhood between Montevideo, Lima, Buenos Aires, and New York. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts of Montevideo, where he trained at the Luis Ernesto Aroztegui Workshop between 1987 and 1993. 

In his work, Masi is equally interested in painting and sound art as he is in electromechanical and urban installations. However, he is better known for his monochromatic paintings, depicting them like whirlpools rhythmically contrasted by black and white. By integrating repetitive lines and shapes, and playing with shadow and light, Diego Masi's biomorphic creations oscillate between painting and sculpture, highlighting his exploration of movement and three-dimensionality.

https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/Diego-Masi-1965-Defensa/98401615-diego_masi_1965-19.10.25-catawiki

Ascendente geométrico (Geometric Ascendant)
2002
Acrylic on canvas
170 x 140 cm
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, United States

Carlos Cruz-Diez
(1923 - 2019)
 

Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist who played a central role in the development of Kinetic and Op art. His work focused on the perceptual and spacial experience of color, presenting it as an autonomous event rather than a descriptive tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-Diez

Physichromie No. 965
1977
mixed media
150 x 100 cm
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, United States
https://www.oas.org/artsoftheamericas/carlos-cruz-diez

Physichromie No. 965, and other works from that period, use the reflective nature of metal strips to produce colors in addition to those physically silkscreened onto the support of the work, resulting in what Cruz-Diez has called “a continuous evolutionary event involving chromatic atmospheres.” He used red, yellow, blue, white, and black on the support, but as the viewer alters position in relation to the work, the colors visible on the surface change and create an awareness of the concomitant passage of light and time. -Text by Mark Andrew White

 Bridget Riley
(b. 1931)

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE  is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.

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

Arrest 2
1965
Acrylic on linen
195 cm x 190 cm 
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States

Art critics of the 1960s dubbed Riley's optical painting style Op Art. By the time her work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965, it already had been embraced by the fashion and design industry. Today her paintings are inspiring a new generation of abstractionists because of what they say about the magic of seeing.

Almir Mavignier
(1925 - 2018)

Almir Mavignier, real name: Almir da Silva Mavignier was a painter and graphic artist of Brazilian descent living in Germany, internationally known as an artistic representative of Concrete Art, Op Art and as a commercial artist.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almir_Mavignier

A-4
1973
serigrafia sobre PVC-folie
90 x 90 cm
Private collection

Alberto Biasi
(B. 1937)
 

Alberto Biasi was a co-founder of Gruppo N, a key Italian collective whose members explored visual perception and optical effects.
His pieces, including works titled “Dinamica,” are structured to create optical movement and perceptual instability: as the viewer changes position, the work seems to shift, pulse, or vibrate.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Biasi

Dinamica obliqua
1966
PVC relief on board
162 by 207 cm
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Collezione Farnesina, Rome, Italy