Victor Vasarely (1908 – 1997) was born at Pécs in Hungary. He studied in Budapest at the Podolini-Volkmann Academy, then at the Mühely school of graphic arts run by Alexander Bortnyik in the tradition of the Bauhaus. He moved to Paris in 1930, where he worked until 1940 as a commercial artist, mainly designing posters, with a marked interest in trompe-l’oeil effects, graphic patterns and space illusions. From 1944 he devoted himself exclusively to painting and the same year the Galerie Denise René, Paris hosts his first one-man exhibition. From 1947 he concentrates on constructive-geometric abstraction and in the later 1950s he pioneered Op art (aka Optical Art) with compositions based on a continual aggressive interaction between different kinds of pattern, and invented a plastic alphabet of standardised colours and shapes which could be used in a wide range of permutations and would lend itself to endless reproduction. He gained great fame and received various awards all around the world. In 1970 he founded a museum to show his own work at the Château de Gordes and six years later he creates the Fondation Vasarely at Aix-en-Provence.
Vasarely. Le partage des forms - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tomorrow's Yesterday is Yesterday's Tomorrow. Victor Vasarely - Galerie Von Vertes, Zurich
Victor Vasarely, In the Labyrinth of Modernism - Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Victor Vasarely. The birth of Op Art - Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid
Victor Vasarely. 51 Steps - At Artrust SA, Melano
Victor Vasarely - Repetto Gallery, London.
Victor Vasarely - Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York City, NY
Victor Vasarely - The Absolute Eye - Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Victor Vasarely - Pour un Manifeste - OTCA, London
Victor Vasarely - New Acquisition II - Muzeum Umeni Olomouc, Olomouc
Victor Vasarely - The joy of movement - Koller Gallery, Budapest
Victor Vasarely - Optical Paintings - EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
Victor Vasarely – Early Drawings and Graphic Designs in the Collection - Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest, Budapest
Victor Vasarely - Museo Rayo - Museo de dibujo y grabado latinoamericano, Roldanillo
A tribute to Victor Vasarely - Galerie Lahumière, Paris
Vasarely - Hommage - Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels
Vasarely - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Optical Spaces - Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX
Victor Vasarely - Galerie Lahumière, Paris
Victor Vasarely - une rétrospective 1948 - 1975 - Galerie Lahumière, Paris
Victor Vasarely: Optical Perspectives - Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan
Victor Vasarely - Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Viktor Vazareli - Grafike i objekti - Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
Victor Vasarely - Mathematikum e.V., Gießen
Imagen Inestable - Galería Animal, Santiago
Victor Vasarely - "GRÁFICA" / Sala Gráfica - Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago
ACCROCHAGE - Victor Vasarely - Galerie Haas & Fuchs - Berlin, Berlin
Victor Vasarely: Works from the Tibor Csepei's Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje
Victor Vasarely - Muzeum Umeni Olomouc / The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
Victor Vasarely - Galerie Pascal Lansberg, Paris
Victor Vasarely - Altes Rathaus, Bayreuth
Victor Vasarély - Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
Druckgrafik - Galerie Kley, Hamm
The absolute eye - Herakleidon Museum, Athens
Victor Vasarely in Black & White - Robert Sandelson, London
Victor Vasarely - Die Täuschung - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Victor Vasarely - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY
best of Vasarely - Rudolf Budja Galerie / Artmosphere Wien, Vienna
best of Vasarely - Rudolf Budja Galerie / Artmosphere Salzburg, Salzburg
An Optical Experience: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Victor Vasarely - Galleria Melesi, Lecco
Victor Vasarely - Milan Dobes Museum, Bratislava
Victor Vasarely - Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
Victor Vaserely - Kunstverein Aurich e.V. / Kunstpavillon am Ellernfeld, Aurich
Späte Werke - Art Edition Fils, Dusseldorf
Viktor Vasarely - Späte Werke - anders galerie im stilwerk, Dusseldorf
Selected Works of Victor Vasarely - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Vasarely - Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Victor Vasarely - Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf
Vasarely - Erfinder der Op-art - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
Victor Vasarely - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Vasarely - Erfinder der Op-art - Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Vasarely - Erfinder der Op-art - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Victor Vasarely - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
Viktor Vasarely - 27 Druckgrafische Einzelblätter - Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte
Vasarely. Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten - Villa Merkel - Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen
Victor Vasarely - Kunsthalle Szombathely, Szombathely
Victor Vasarely - Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
Victor Vasarely - Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
Victor Vasarely - Arbeiten von 1933-1980 - Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne
Vasarely - Akira Ikeda - Nagoya, Nagoya
Vasarely - University Avenue, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Vasarely - Gallery Moos, Toronto, ON
Vasarely - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
Vasarely - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
Victor Vasarely - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Victory Vasarely – Graphics - Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Victor Vasarely - Galería René Metras, Barcelona
Vasarely - Galerie M Beck / Edition Monika Beck, Homburg/Saar
Vasarely - Galleria del Cavallino, Venice
Vasarely - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
Victor Vasarely: bilder + objekte - (op) art galerie, Esslingen
Victor Vasarely - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Victor Vasarely: Paintings and Collages - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Vasarely - Serigrafieën - Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
VASARELY- Peintures récentes - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Victor Vasarely - Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
Vasarely - Feigen Inc., Chicago, IL
Vasarely: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
Victor Vasarely - Galerie Handschin, Basel
Victor Vasarely - Paintings - Pace Gallery - NY, New York City, NY
Vasarely - Hanover Gallery, London
Victor Vasarely - Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Victor Vasarely - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Victor Vasarely - Werke von 1935 bis 1963 - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Victor Vasarely - Paintings, Sculpture, Prints - Pace Gallery - NY, New York City, NY
Vasarely - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
Vasarely - Peintures Cinétiques - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Victor Vasarely - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Victor Vasarely - Paintings - Pace Gallery - Boston, Boston, MA
Victor Vasarely - Hanover Gallery, London
Vasarely - Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
Vasarely - Petits Formats, Gouaches, Reliefs - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Vasarely - Peinture Cinétique - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Vasarely - Tableaux Cinétiques. - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Vasarely - Les éléments De La Plastique Cinétique - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Vasarely - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Vasarely - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Vasarely - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
Vasarely - Peintures - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris
VASARELY - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris