Carlos Cruz-Diez
1923 Born on August 17th in Caracas, Venezuela 2019 He passed away on July 27th
1940 He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Caracas, where he obtained the diploma of professor in Applied Arts
1944 Worked as illustrator for the publication El Farol of the Creole Petroleum Corporation, as well as for other magazines such as La Esfera and Élite,
He made comics for various newspapers
1946 Creative director of advertising agency McCann-Erickson, Venezuela 1947 He travelled to New York for an advertising training course
He held his first personal exhibition “12 gouaches de Carlos Cruz- Diez” at the Instituto Venezolano-Americano in Caracas
1953 Illustrator for El Nacional newspaper,
1955 Settled for a year and a half in El Masnou, Barcelona, Spain
He travelled to Paris and saw the works that were exhibited at the exhibition “Le Mouvement” at the Galerie Denise René
1956 He exhibited at the Galería Buchholz in Madrid where he presented the series Parénquimas and Objetos Rítmicos Móviles
1957 He founded the Estudio de Artes Visuales [Visual Arts Studio] for graphic and industrial design in Caracas
1959 He created his first Couleur Additive and Physichromie 1960 Settled permanently in Paris with his family
1961 He participated at the exhibition “Bewogen Beweging” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1965 He participated at the exhibition “The Responsive Eye”, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York
Venezuela’s general curator at the IV Biennale de Paris. He exhibits works by Alirio Rodríguez, Edgar Guinand and Carlos Prada
1969 He featured Labyrinthe de Chromosaturation on the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris 1970 Personal exhibition at the XXXV Venice Biennale, Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice, Italy 1972 Taught “kinetic techniques” at the Unité d’Études et Recherches d’Arts Plastiques of the
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris 1973 He opened a workshop in Caracas
Jury member for the diploma of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
He worked on numerous projects related to integrated architectural works such as the Maiquetia Airport and the José Antonio Páez Power Plant in Venezuela
1975 He created the Environnement Chromatique for the headquarters of the Union de Banques Suisses in Zürich
1978 He inaugurated his work Physichromie double face located at Place du Venezuela, Paris 1980 Opening of the travelling exhibition “Didáctica y Dialéctica del Color” at the Universidad
Simón Bolívar in Caracas
1986 Head of the Art Unit of the Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA) in Caracas 1989 He published his book “Reflexión sobre el color” in Caracas
1997 Opening of the Museo de la Estampa y el Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez [Carlos Cruz-Diez Museum of Print and Design] in Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
2007 Honorary Member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, Caracas
2009 He published the second edition in Spanish and English of his book “Reflexión sobre el color” in Madrid
2011 He inaugurated his most important retrospective exhibition “Carlos Cruz-Diez. Color in Space and Time”, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), United States
2012 Rank of Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, Paris
2014 He published his memoirs “Vivir en Arte, recuerdos de lo que me acuerdo” in Paris
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 (E)motion. Op Art, Kinetic Art and Light Art in the Würth Collection, Capena 2021 Inter Lineas, La Patinoire Royale | Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
Pavillon France : Lumière, Lumières, Dubaï World Expo, Dubaï, UAE
El peso de la forma. El diseno grafico de Carlos Cruz-Diez, Museo Reina Sofia Cruz-Diez. El color como accion, Carrer de Sant Roc, Mahon
2019 Color in Space, Crita Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Cruz-Diez. El color haciéndose, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Panama City, Republic of Panama
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Labyrinthus, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium Biennale de Paris, Le bgrand Palais, Paris
2018 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Luminous Reality, Phillips, London, United Kingdom
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Color in Motion, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany 2017 Chroma, Ocean Drive & 13th Street, Miami Beach, United States
On the occasion of the “Untitled Art Fair” Cruz-Diez en blanco y negro. Fotografías de 1960 a 1966, Alianza Francesa, Panama City, Republic of Panama
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Mastering Colour, Puerta Roja Gallery, Hong Kong, China Chroma, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, United States
Exhibition awarded with the "Best of Year" award from the magazine Interior Design.
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Autonomía del color, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, United States
2016 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Du statique au dynamique, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Un être flottant, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France
2015 Bidimensional Research 1959-2015, Espace Expression, Miami, United States
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Didaktik und Dialektik der Farbe, Das Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt, Germany
2014 Within the Light Trap. Cruz-Diez in Black and White, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, United States
Cruz-Diez en noir et blanc. Photographies de 1943 à 1975, Maison de l'Amérique latine, Paris, France
Cruz-Diez en blanco y negro. Fotografías 1942-1986, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires (MACBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carlos Cruz-Diez. RVB - les couleurs du siècle, Galerie Gimpel & Müller, Paris, France Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circonstance et Ambiguïté de la Couleur, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en- Provence, France
Cruz-Diez. Color espacial, Centro Niemeyer, Avilés, Spain. Cruz-Diez
2013 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, United States
Cruz-Diez en blanco y negro. Fotografías 1942-1986, Fundación BBVA Provincial, Caracas, Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
2012 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circunstância e Ambiguidade da Cor, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Henan Art Museum, Zhengzhou, China
RVB, Le Musée en Herbe, Paris, France
Cruz-Diez. Color in Space, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Jeonbuk, South Korea Cruz-Diez. A cor no espaço e no tempo, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil Carlos Cruz-Diez. El color en el espacio y en el tiempo, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Color in Space and Time, Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, United States
Cruz-Diez. Color in Space, Dream Forest Arts Center, Sang Sang Tok Tok Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Carlos Cruz-Diez. OEuvres 1964/2005, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez. El color en el espacio y en el tiempo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Environment Chromatic-Interferences. Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (Canton), China
Carlos Cruz-Diez. The Embodied Experience of Color, Miami Art Museum, Miami, United States
Cruz-Diez. Circonstance et Ambiguïté de la couleur, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France
2009 Carlos Cruz-Diez. El color sucede, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain Carlos Cruz-Diez. 50 ans de recherche, Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Paris, France Carlos Cruz-Diez. El color sucede, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Colour in the Making, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008 Carlos Cruz-Diez. La couleur dans l'espace, Centre d'Art Contemporain Frank Popper, Marcigny, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez. (In)Formed by Color, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, United States
2007 Cruz-Diez. A Cor No Espaço, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cruz-Diez. La couleur dans l'espace, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France 2006 Hommage à Cruz-Diez, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
2005 Cruz-Diez. La couleur dans l'espace, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France 2004 Cruz-Diez. Couleur Événement, Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Paris, France
Cruz-Diez. Arte en Guri, Museo de la Estampa y del Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
2003 Carlos Cruz-Diez. De lo participativo a lo interactivo. Otra noción del color, l'Almodí, Valencia, Spain
2001 Cruz-Diez. De lo participativo a lo interactivo, Fundación Corp Group Centro Cultural, Caracas, Venezuela
2000 Cruz-Diez. La visión del color, Fundación Carmona, Sala Juan Carmona, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
1999 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Sala Múltiple, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Retrospectiva 1954-1998, Museo de Arte Moderno del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela El rojo, el verde y el azul, entre la luz y las tinieblas, Casa de las Américas, Galería Latinoamericana, Havana, Cuba
1998 Carlos Cruz-Diez “...und gebe dem Raum die Farbe”, Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany
1996 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Physichromien, Galerie Schöeller, Düsseldorf, Germany 1995 Reflexión sobre el color, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
1994 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Metamorfosis de lo efímero. Paneles pictóricos y laberinto sensorial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Cruz-Diez. Rétrospective. OEuvres de 1954 à 1990, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France
1992 Carlos Cruz-Diez. La visión del color, Museo de Arte de Maracay, Maracay, Venezuela 1991 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Physichromien, Galerie Schöeller, Düsseldorf, Germany
1990 Cruz-Diez, Abbaye des Cordeliers, Chateauroux, France
1988 Carlos Cruz-Diez. Die Autonomie der Farbe. Bilders - Plastiken - Objekte aus den Jahren, 1959-1988, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie, Bottrop, Germany Cruz-Diez. Autonomie der Farbe, Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1981 Cruz-Diez. Didáctica y dialéctica del color. Intervenciones en la arquitectura. Inducciones cromáticas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber - Sala Cadafe - Sala Ipostel, Caracas, Venezuela
1980 Cruz-Diez. Didáctica y dialéctica del color, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
1976 Fisicromías (Cromocinetismo). Carlos Cruz-Diez, artista venezolano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Cruz-Diez. Color Evolution, Galerie Denise René, New York, United States 1975 Group exhibition, Galería Aele, Madrid, Spain
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Obras sobre el Muro, Gráficas e Integración Arquitectónica, Galería Aele, Madrid, Spain
Cruz-Diez. El artista y la ciudad, Sala de Exposiciones de la Gobernación del Distrito Federal, Caracas, Venezuela
Cruz-Diez 2. OEuvres Récentes, Galerie Denise René - Rue la Boétie, Paris, France 1974 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber - Sala Cadafe, Caracas,
Venezuela
1973 Cruz-Diez, Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris, France 1972 Cruz-Diez, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
1970 35th Venice Biennial, Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1969 Cruz-Diez. Fisicromías, Transcromías y Cromointerferencias, Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela
Cruz-Diez. Multiples, Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Cruz-Diez. Cinq propositions sur la couleur, Galerie Denise René - Rue la Boétie, Paris, France
1968 Cruz-Diez. Physichromies, Galerie Accent, Brussels, Belgium 1966 Cruz-Diez, Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, Germany
1965 Physichromies de Cruz-Diez. OEuvres de 1954 à 1965, Galerie Kerchache, Paris, France.
A Decade of Physichromies by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Signals London, London, United Kingdom
1960 Fisicromías de Cruz-Diez, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Architecture, Caracas, Venezuela
Fisicromías de Cruz-Diez, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1946 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Galería Buchholz, Madrid, Spain
1947 12 gouaches de Carlos Cruz-Diez, Centro Venezolano Americano, Caracas, Venezuela
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 La loi du mouvement. Collection du Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2019 Racing the Galaxy, Between the Palace of Independence & the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, Nur-Sultan (Astana), Kazakhstan
Ephemeral intervention as part of the Astana Art Show
La révolution permanente. OEuvres optiques et cinétiques. Collection du Centre Pompidou Musée national d’art moderne, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
Luz y movimiento. La vanguardia cinética en París, 1950-1975, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain
Le Diable au corps, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France Une brève histoire de la modernité des formes, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France
To Art its Freedom. Selected Works from the UBS Art Collection, UBS Art Gallery, New York, United States of America
El juego del arte. Pedagogías, arte y diseño, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain Destination. Latin America, LSU Museum of Art, Indiana, United States
Vertigo. Op Art and a History and Deception 1520-1970, Museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
2018 Latinoamérica. Volver al futuro, MACBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Other Trans- Atlantic. Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1950’s - 1970s, Serviço Social do Comércio, São Paulo, Brazil
The Other Trans-Atlantic. Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1950’s - 1970s, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Visiones de la tierra/El mundo planeado. Colección Luís Paulo Montenegro, Sala de arte Santander, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
Action <-> Reaction. 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Concrete Matters, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Signals, Sotheby’s Gallery S|2, London, United Kingdom
L’Aventure de la couleur. OEuvres phares du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Obres obertes. L’art en moviment, 1955-1975, Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
2017 Constructing Constructivism, Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection, Miami, United States.
Palimpsestus. Image and Memory, Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., United States
The Phenomenon of Perception. Carlos Cruz-Diez & Ludwig Wilding, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
Todo es movimiento. Op Art y Arte Cinético en la Colección Würth, Museo Würth La Rioja, Agoncillo, Spain
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
IMMA Collection. Coastlines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Georges Pompidou et l'art. Une aventure du regard, Château de Chambord, Chambord, France
Dialogues concrets. Carlos Cruz-Diez & la Donation Albers-Honegger, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France. Curator : Carlos Cruz-Diez
Eye Attack. Op Art en kinetische kunst, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands.
Estados da abstração no pós-guerra, Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Kinesthesia. Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969, Palm Springs Art Museum (Annenberg Wing), Palm Springs, United States
The Urge to Create Visions, 1929-2017, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland. Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States,
Foosaner Art Museum, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States Vero Amore. Pop Art italiana dalle collezioni della GAM, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2016 Let's Move, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
The Illusive Eye. Op Art and the Americas in the 1960s, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
Eye Attack. Op Art and Kinetic Art 1950-1970, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States Light Show, CorpArtes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
In the Studio, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Un musée imaginé. Et si l’art disparaissait ? Trois collections européennes. Centre Pompidou, Tate, MMK, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Das imaginäre Museum/An Imagined Museum. Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, Museum für Moderne Kunst - MMK2, Frankfurt, Germany
Lightopia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, United States Lightopia, Centro de Artes e Tecnologia da Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal.
Split. Spiegel, Licht, Reflexion, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany 2015 Spatial Illumination - 9 Lights in 9 rooms, Daelim Museum / D Museum, Seoul, South
Korea
Parcours, Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France Lightopia, Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna, Austria
Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Testing Testing. Painting and Sculpture since 1960 from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States Libertad de Expresión. The Art Museum of the Americas and Cold War Politics, Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., United States
Short Cuts, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland. Light Show, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
An Imagined Museum. Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, Art Gallery, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, United States
2014 Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Radical Geometry. Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Light Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
Formes simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France Lightopia, Design Museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Que la lumière soit !, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
2013 Dynamo. Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l’art. 1913-2013, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Pan American Modernism. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, United States.
La invención concreta. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
Lightopia, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.
2012 Intercambio global. Abstracción geométrica desde 1950, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires (MACBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Something Along Those Lines, School of the Museum of Fine Arts - SMFA, Boston, United States
Néon. Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Suprasensorial. Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States
Arte programmata e cinetica. Da Munari a Biasi a Colombo e..., Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
Hommage à Denise René, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France
2011 Nouvelle présentation des collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France América fría. La abstracción geométrica latinoamericana (1934 - 1973), Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2010 Suprasensorial. Experiments in Light, Color and Space, The Geffen Contemporary at The
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, United States
Lumière et mouvement / Luce e movimento, Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Venice, Italy
Desenhar no espaço. Artistas abstratos do Brasil e da Venezuela na Coleção Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil.
Desenhar no espaço. Artistas abstratos do Brasil e da Venezuela na Coleção Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2008 Color into Light, Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, United States 2007 O(s) cinético(s), Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
The Geometry of Hope. Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, United States
Lo[s] cinético[s], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2006 Espacios Re-dibujados. 50 años de abstracción en Venezuela, Centro Cultural Corp Group, Caracas, Venezuela
2005 Uno a la vez. Dibujos en la Colección Mercantil, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela
L'OEil moteur. Art optique et cinétique, 1950-1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2004 Inverted Utopias. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America, Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, United States
2003 Une Tour Eiffel haute en couleurs, Centre Pompidou, Galerie des Enfants, Paris, France 2002 Paralelos. Arte brasileira da segunda metade do século XX em contexto, Colección
Cisneros, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2001 Denise René, l’intrépide. Une galerie dans l’aventure de l’art abstrait, 1944-1978, Centre Pompidou, Galerie d’Art Graphique and Galerie du Musée, Paris, France
2000 Heterotopías. Medio siglo sin-lugar, 1918-1968, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
1996 Lumière et mouvement, Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris, France
1993 Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
Manifeste. Une histoire parallèle (1960-1990), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 1992 L'art en mouvement, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Mouvement, Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
1989 Art in Latin America. The Modern Era, 1820-1980, The Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1988 La couleur seule. L’expérience du monochrome, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1985 Contrasts of Form. Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980 from the Guggenheim Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
1983 Arte programmata e cinetica 1953/1963. L’ultima avanguardia, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 1978 Stiftung Anne-Marie und Victor Loeb, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1977 Plástica latinoamericana en homenaje al Uruguay en lucha , Casa de las Américas, Galería Latinoamericana, Havana, Cuba
L’altro occhio di Polifemo, Galleria d’arte moderna, Bologna, Italy
1976 Creadores latinoamericanos contemporáneos, 1950 -1976. pinturas y relieves, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1971 Carlos Cruz-Diez and Francisco Sobrino. Two Optical Artists of the 70s, Galerie Denise René, New York, United States
1968 Cinétisme, spectacle, environnement, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, Grenoble, France Environment, Tafelbild, Licht und Bewegung, Umgebung (Bonalumi, Cruz-Diez,
Honegger), Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
1967 Lumière et Mouvement, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 1966 Weiss auf Weiss, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1965 Licht und Bewegung, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany Lumière, mouvement et optique, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, United States
Licht und Bewegung, Kinetische Kunst, Neue Tendenzen der Architektur, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1964 Mouvement 2, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Nouvelle Tendance. Propositions visuelles du mouvement international, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, France
1963 Esquisse d’un salon, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Nove Tendencije 2, Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia 1962 Anti-peinture, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
1961 Bewogen Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1950 De Reverón hasta hoy, Taller Libre de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1948 Exposición de pintores jóvenes, Taller Libre de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, United States.
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela.
Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN), Caracas, Venezuela.
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany.
Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (MKKI), Ingolstadt, Germany.
Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany.
Arithmeum, Bonn, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Art, The University of Sydney (JW Power Collection), Sydney, Australia.
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany.
Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, Germany.
PRIZE
1966 Grand Prize, III Bienal Americana de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Faculty of Science, Córdoba, Argentina
1967 International Painting Prize, IX Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1969 Second Prize, Festival International de la Peinture, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur- Mer, France
1971 National Art Award, Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes (INCIBA), Caracas, Venezuela
1973 Order Andrés Bello, Second Class, Palacio de Miraflores, Caracas, Venezuela
1976 Integración de las Artes Award, VI Bienal de Arquitectura, Colegio de Arquitectos de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
1981 Order Andrés Bello, First Class, Caracas, Venezuela 1986 Rank of Officer, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France
1992 Gold Medal, Norwegian International Print Triennale, Oslo, Norway
1994 Rank of Commander, Orden Heráldica Cristóbal Colón, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2002 Rank of Commander, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France 2006 Honorary Doctorate, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
2007 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela 2011 Golden Medal, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York, United States 2012 Premio Penagos de Dibujo, Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
Rank of Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, Paris, France
Páez Medal of Art, Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), New York, United States
2015 Turner Medal, City University, London, United Kingdom
2016 The International Trebbia Award, Trebbia Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 SCAD deFINE ART honoree, Trustees Theater, SCAD University, Savannah, United States 2018 Human Rights Friendly Personality, International Solidarity for Human Rights, Miami
