Mathematical Artists

This page lists past and current artists with strong mathematical influences. Each artist is tagged to indicate whether they are:

Art world

Math world

Painting and Graphic Art

• Julian Beever. Pavement drawings with anamorphic illusion.
• Sandro Del Prete. Impossible figures and illusions.
• Albrecht Dürer, particularly his 1514 woodcut Melancolia I.
• Alfred Jensen. Blazingly colorful abstract paintings involving patterns, numbers, symbols, mysticisim.
• Crockett Johnson. Better known for his children's books (including Harold and the Purple Crayon), he produced a series of geometric paintings.
• Sol LeWitt Geometric and algorithmic paintings and structures.
• Eleni Mylonas. Specifically, "Quasi-periodic space" Penrose tilings.
• Makoto Nakamura. Art involving tessellations.
• István Orosz. Graphic design involving illusion and anamorphosis.
• Oscar Reutersvärd. Impossible figures.
• Tony Robbin. Visualizing the fourth dimension.
• Oliver Šin. Painting and other media involving mathematicians and their work.
• Clifford Singer. Abstract figures based on plane curves.
• Arlene Stamp. Painting. Also public art involving mathematical patterns.
• Dick Termes. Six point perspective on spheres.
• Victor Vasarely. Known as the father of Op-Art.

Sculpture

• Harriet Brisson Neon tubes. Ceramics. Sculpture.
• Max Bill Geometric paintings. Möbius strip sculpture.
• Brent Collins. Knot and surface sculpture.
• Helaman Ferguson Knot and surface sculpture. One of the best known of the very mathematical artists.
• Nat Friedman Knot surfaces. Fractals.
• Bathsheba Grossman. Knot and surface sculptures with complicated symmetry.
• George W. Hart. Polyhedra, zome structures, tensegrity structures.
• Charles O. Perry. Knot spanning surfaces.
• Koos Verhoeff. Sculptures with fractals, topology, and geometry.
• Bernar Venet. Precisely described geometric sculptures. Paintings of mathematical diagrams and equations.
• Jason Green. Ceramics with aperiodic and other classical tessellations.
• Dorothea Rockburne. Geometric paintings and paper foldings.

Photography and Computer Art

• Akiyoshi Kitaoka Optical illusions.
• Jos Leys Fractals, dynamics, hyperbolic geometry.
• Abhominal Jason Hopkins, digital images of flesh and geometry.
• Erik Johansson, digital photography of impossible objects.

Textiles

• Deborah Abolt. Japanese temari.
• Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project. A worldwide collaborative.
• Issey Miyake Fashion designer Dai Fujiwara's collaboration with mathematician Bill Thurston.

Performance

• Tim & Tanya Chartier Mime, puppetry, clowning.
• Vi Hart Blog videos, art and music.