LONDON.- Cristea Roberts Gallery announced global representation for the original prints from the Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate, the Estate’s first gallery representation in London.

Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923 - 2019) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas, Caracas, from 1940 to 1945, before working in illustration and advertising.

The artist's paintings, sculptures and prints, architectural interventions and site-specific installations, alongside his research and writings, make him one of the great twentieth-century thinkers and innovators in the realm of colour. His radical approach to art anticipated the immersive and experimental works that define much of contemporary art today.

The artist made a significant body of printed work throughout his lifetime, returning to printmaking at important points in the development of his research and practice. He worked almost exclusively in screenprint, in later years expanding his use of the medium to include lithography; etching, and digital print.

He had his first solo show in Caracas in 1947. In 1965 he participated in the group show The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the exhibition drew worldwide attention to the 'Op Art' movement. Five years later in 1970 Cruz-Diez represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale, installing several large-scale works in the pavilion including Chromosaturation, 1965/1970 , an immersive, participatory artwork of three empty rooms illuminated in red, blue and green.

In 2023, to celebrate the artist’s centenary, an exhibition entitled RGB: The Colors of the Century, conceived by Cruz-Diez ten years earlier, toured the world, in partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national d’art modern. Venues included Museo de la Estampa y del Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas; Museo de Arte Costarricense, San José; Hangaram Museum, Seoul; and North Bund Bay, Shanghai. Further exhibitions celebrating the artist's centenary were shown at Centre Pompidou, Malaga, and the Galeria de Arte Nacional GAN, Caracas.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, New York (2026); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida (2025); Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2021); Expo 2020 Dubai, France Pavilion, Dubai (2021); Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro, São Paulo (2020); MAC Panamá, Panamá City (2019); Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (2018); SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia (2016); and Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer, Avilés, (2014).

A large retrospective took place in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas in 2011, and toured to Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires - Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires. He had a mid-career retrospective at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop in Germany in 1988.

Having first visited Europe in 1955, Cruz-Diez settled in Paris in 1960, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Throughout the 1970s and 80s he held teaching positions in Paris and Caracas. In 2012 he was honoured with the Officer grade, Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris, France.

His works are housed in collections worldwide including Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, Caracas; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C.; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Carlos Cruz-Diez died aged 95 in 2019 in Paris, France.

Cristea Roberts Gallery is the global representative for the original prints from the Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate.