Michael Kidner's work is in the Tate Gallery, London. He is that rare commodity: a self-taught artist.

In the 1940s, he was in the Canadian Army.

He was a pioneer in the Op Art movement.

Lived in Paris.

He had a solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London in 1995.

He is also well-known as a sculptor and printmaker.

Dateline:

• 1936-39: Reads History and Anthropology at Cambridge University

• 1940-41: Studies architecture at Ohio State University

• 1959: Solo exhibition at St Hilda’s College, Oxford

• 1977: Solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

• 1984: Retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery, London

• 1986: Solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London

• 1990: Solo exhibition at the Centre for International Contemporary Arts, New York City

• 1991: Solo exhibition at the Galerie Bismark, Bremen

• 1992: Solo exhibition at the Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

• 1993: Solo exhibitions at the Oddziat Museum, Rezydeancji Ksiezymlyn, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland and the Barbican Art Gallery, London

• 1994: Solo exhibition at the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London

• 1995: Solo exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, London and Galerie Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen, Germany

• 1996: Solo exhibition at Flowers East, London

• 1997: Solo exhibitions at the Belgrave Gallery, London and Emilia Slusis Gallery, Ettlingen, Germany

• 1999: Solo exhibition at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

• 2001: Solo exhibitions at Flowers East, London and the Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, Austria

• 2002: Solo exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice

• 2003: Solo exhibition at Flowers East, London

• 2004: Elected RA

//Mailing Address//

Michael Kidner, RA
c/o Flowers East
82 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DP
United Kingdom

//Gallery//