Julio Le Parc (Mendoza, Argentina 1928 - França 2026)
Julio Le Parc was an Argentine visual artist, born in 1928 in Mendoza. He lived and worked in Paris from the 1960s on. He was recognized as one of the leading figures of op and kinetic art. He began experimenting with light, color and movement in the 1950s, developing installations and sculptures that investigated visual perception and viewer engagement. In 1960, he co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV), a collective that promoted the public's active interaction with the work and proposed a dematerialized art critical of the market.
He took part in international exhibitions from the 1960s on, maintaining an uninterrupted career for more than six decades. He held solo exhibitions at institutions such as The Met Breuer (New York, 2018), Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, 2017), Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, 2016) and Centro Cultural Kirchner (Buenos Aires, 2019). His works are in museum collections such as MoMA (New York), the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and LACMA (Los Angeles).
Solo Exhibitions
2016 – Miami FL, USA – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
2014–2015 – London, United Kingdom – Serpentine Sackler Gallery, November 25, 2014 to February 15, 2015
2013 – Paris, France – Palais de Tokyo
2010 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Otra Mirada [Another Look]
2009 – Havana, Cuba – Le Parc. Lumière
2005 – Cachan, France – Julio Le Parc and Vertige Vertical
2004 – Brescia, Italy – Julio Le Parc: Verso la Luce – TORSIONS, permanent monumental sculpture in the garden of the Castello di Boldeniga
1998 – Quito, Ecuador – Alquimias [Alchemies]
1996 – Arcueil, France – Game Room and Surface Works
1991 – Valencia, Spain – Recent Work
1988 – Brescia, Italy – Modulations by Julio Le Parc
1979 – Genoa, Italy – Galleria La Polena
1973 – New York NY, USA – Galerie Denise René
1970 – Ulm, Germany – Kinetic Object
Group Exhibitions
2009 – Tampere, Finland – Flash! Light and Movement
2002 – La Plata, Argentina – 50 Years of Latin American Geometric Painting
1994 – Cachan, France – Open Doors
1987 – Cuenca, Ecuador – 1st Cuenca Biennial
1983 – Milan, Italy – Arte Programmata e Cinetica 1953–1963
1975 – Athens, Greece – Brigade Internationale des Peintres Antifascistes
1970 – London, United Kingdom – Kinetics
1967 – New York NY, USA – Light in Orbit
1960 – Paris, France – Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel
1957 – São Paulo SP, Brazil – 4th São Paulo Biennial
