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|+ Mathematical artists
! Artist !! Dates !! Artform | Contribution to mathematical art
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Calatrava, Santiago | 1951– | Architecture | Mathematically-based architecture[{{cite web | url=https://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-art4 | title=Monthly essays on mathematical topics: Mathematics and Art | publisher=American Mathematical Society | access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite web | last1=Greene | first1=Robert | title=How Santiago Calatrava blurred the lines between architecture and engineering to make buildings move | date=20 January 2013 | url=http://www.archdaily.com/321403/how-santiago-calatrava-blurred-the-lines-between-architecture-and-engineering-to-make-buildings-move/ | publisher=Arch daily | access-date=7 June 2015}}]
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Della Francesca, Piero | 1420–1492 | Fine art | Mathematical principles of perspective in art;[{{cite book | last=Field | first=J. V. |author-link= Judith V. Field | title=Piero della Francesca. A Mathematician's Art | date=2005 | publisher=Yale University Press | isbn=0-300-10342-5 | url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200703/rev-emmer.pdf}}] his books include De prospectiva pingendi (On perspective for painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular solids) |
Demaine, Erik and Martin | 1981– | Origami | "Computational origami": mathematical curved surfaces in self-folding paper sculptures[{{cite news | title=Video: Origami Artists Don't Fold Under Pressure | url= https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/07/02/video-origami-artists-dont-fold-under-pressure/ | date=2 July 2014 | first=Elizabeth | last=Yuan | work=The Wall Street Journal}}][{{cite web|last1=Demaine|first1=Erik|last2=Demaine|first2=Martin|title=Curved-Crease Sculpture|url=http://erikdemaine.org/curved/|access-date=8 June 2015}}][{{cite web|title=Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine|url=http://www.moma.org/collection//browse_results.php?object_id=110195|website=MoMA|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|access-date=8 June 2015}}] |
Dietz, Ada | 1882–1950 | Textiles | Weaving patterns based on the expansion of multivariate polynomials[{{cite book | last=Dietz | first=Ada K. | location=Louisville, Kentucky | publisher=The Little Loomhouse | title=Algebraic Expressions in Handwoven Textiles | url=http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs/dak_alge.pdf | year=1949 | access-date=2015-06-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222003421/http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/monographs/dak_alge.pdf | archive-date=2016-02-22 | url-status=dead }}] |
Draves, Scott | 1968– | Digital art | Video art, VJing[{{cite web | last=Birch | first=K. | url=http://www.cogito.org/Interviews/InterviewsDetail.aspx?ContentID=16808 | title=Cogito Interview: Damien Jones, Fractal Artist | date=20 August 2007 | access-date=7 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827160027/http://www.cogito.org/Interviews/InterviewsDetail.aspx?ContentID=16808 | archive-date=27 August 2007 | url-status=dead }}][{{cite web| last=Bamberger|first=A.|url=http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/011807.html |title=San Francisco Art Galleries - Openings|date=2007-01-18|access-date=2008-03-11}}][{{cite web |url=http://www.baxterchangpatri.com/artwork.html|title=Gallery representing Draves' video art|access-date=2008-03-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080606060122/http://www.baxterchangpatri.com/artwork.html | archive-date=2008-06-06}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/vj-its-not/apr-05/7446|title=VJ: It's not a disease|publisher=Keyboard Magazine|date=April 2005|access-date=2015-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412020022/http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/vj-its-not/apr-05/7446|archive-date=2008-04-12|url-status=dead}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/07/040607ta_talk_wilkinson |first=Alec |last=Wilkinson |title=Incomprehensible|publisher=New Yorker Magazine |date=2004-06-07}}] |
Dürer, Albrecht | 1471–1528 | Fine art | Mathematical theory of proportion[{{cite web | url=https://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-art1 | title=Feature Column from the AMS | publisher=American Mathematical Society | access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite web|title=Albrecht Dürer | url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Durer.html | publisher=University of St Andrews | access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Ernest, John | 1922–1994 | Fine art | Use of group theory, self-replicating shapes in art[{{cite journal | last1=Beineke | first1=Lowell | last2=Wilson | first2=Robin | doi=10.1007/s00283-009-9120-4 | journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer | title=The Early History of the Brick Factory Problem | year=2010 | volume=32 | issue =2 | pages=41–48| s2cid=122588849 }}][{{cite web | last1=Ernest | first1=Paul |title=John Ernest, A Mathematical Artist | url=http://people.exeter.ac.uk/PErnest/pome24/ernest_john_ernest_a_mathematical_artist.doc | publisher=University of Exeter | access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Escher, M. C. | 1898–1972 | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations, hyperbolic geometry, assisted by the geometer H. S. M. Coxeter[{{cite web | url=http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter2009/Mihai/ | title=M.C. Escher and Hyperbolic Geometry | publisher=The Math Explorers' Club | date=2009 | access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Farmanfarmaian, Monir | 1922–2019 | Fine art | Geometric constructions exploring the infinite, especially mirror mosaics[{{cite web|title=BBC 100 Women 2015: Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34921446|publisher=BBC|access-date=27 November 2015|date=26 November 2015}}] |
Ferguson, Helaman | 1940– | Digital art | Algorist, Digital artist
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Forakis, Peter | 1927–2009 | Sculpture | Pioneer of geometric forms in sculpture[{{cite news | title=Peter Forakis, a Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Is Dead at 82 | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/arts/design/16forakis.html | date=17 December 2009 | first=Roberta | last=Smith | work=The New York Times | quote=Often consisting of repeating, flattened volumes tilted on a corner, Mr. Forakis’s work had a mathematical demeanor; sometimes it evoked the black, chunky forms of the Minimalist sculptor Tony Smith.}}][{{cite web|title=Peter Forakis, Originator of Geometry-Based Sculpture, Dies at 82|url=http://artdaily.com/news/34722/Peter-Forakis--Originator-of-Geometry-Based-Sculpture--Dies-at-82#.VXRbbUZ0dIQ|publisher=Art Daily|access-date=7 June 2015}}]
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Grossman, Bathsheba | 1966– | Sculpture | Sculpture based on mathematical structures[{{cite web | url= http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-math-geek-holiday-gift-guide/ | title=The Math Geek Holiday Gift Guide | publisher=Scientific American | date=November 23, 2014 | access-date=June 7, 2015}}][{{cite web|last1=Hanna|first1=Raven|title=Gallery: Bathsheba Grossman|url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/september-2005/gallery-bathsheba-grossman|publisher=Symmetry Magazine|access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Hart, George W. | 1955– | Sculpture | Sculptures of 3-dimensional tessellations (lattices)[{{cite web|title=George W. Hart|url=http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm09/hart.html|publisher=Bridges Math Art|access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite web|title=George Hart|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/authors/george-hart/|publisher=Simons Foundation|access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Radoslav Rochallyi | 1980– | Fine art | Equations-inspired mathematical visual art including mathematical structures.[{{cite web |url= https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/equation-poetry |title= EQUATION POETRY |last= Rochallyi |first= Radoslav
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Hill, Anthony | 1930– | Fine art | Geometric abstraction in Constructivist art[{{cite web|title=Anthony Hill|url=https://artimage.org.uk/artists/h/hill-anthony/|publisher=Artimage|access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite web|title=Anthony Hill: Relief Construction 1960-2|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hill-relief-construction-t00567|publisher=Tate Gallery|access-date=7 June 2015 |quote=The artist has suggested that his constructions can best be described in mathematical terminology, thus ‘the theme involves a module, partition and a progression’ which ‘accounts for the disposition of the five white areas and permuted positioning of the groups of angle sections’. (Letter of 24 March 1963.)}}] |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452–1519 | Fine art | Mathematically-inspired proportion, including golden ratio (used as golden rectangles)[{{cite web|title=Leonardo DaVinci and the Golden Section|url=http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/beyond/articles/Art/DaVinci.html|publisher=University of Regina|access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Longhurst, Robert | 1949– | Sculpture | Sculptures of minimal surfaces, saddle surfaces, and other mathematical concepts[{{cite journal| author=Friedman, Nathaniel | title=Robert Longhurst: Three Sculptures | journal=Hyperseeing | date=July 2007 | pages=9–12 | quote=The surfaces [of Longhurst's sculptures] generally have appealing sections with negative curvature (saddle surfaces). This is a natural intuitive result of Longhurst's feeling for satisfying shape rather than a mathematically deduced result.}}] |
Man Ray | 1890–1976 | Fine art | Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art[{{cite web | title=Man Ray–Human Equations A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare February 7 - May 10, 2015 | url=http://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2015-02-07-exhibition-man-ray-human-equations | publisher=Phillips Collection | access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Naderi Yeganeh, Hamid | 1990– | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations (resembling rep-tiles)[{{cite news | title=Catch of the day: mathematician nets weird, complex fish | url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/feb/24/catch-of-the-day-mathematician-nets-weird-complex-fish | date=24 February 2015 | first=Alex | last=Bellos | work=The Guardian}}][{{cite web |url=http://mathmunch.org/2015/04/15/continents-math-explorers-club-and-i-use-math-for/|title=Continents, Math Explorers' Club, and "I use math for…" |publisher=mathmunch.org |date=April 2015 |access-date=June 7, 2015}}] |
Pacioli, Luca | 1447–1517 | Fine art | Polyhedra (e.g. rhombicuboctahedron) in Renaissance art;[{{cite web |last1=Hart |first1=George |title=Luca Pacioli's Polyhedra |url=http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/pacioli.html |access-date=7 June 2015}}] proportion, in his book De divina proportione |
Perry, Charles O. | 1929–2011 | Sculpture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture[{{cite web | url=http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Dodecahedron.html | title=Dodecahedron | publisher=Wolfram MathWorld | access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite news | title=Charles O. Perry Dies at 81; Sculptor Inspired by Geometry | author=William Grimes | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/design/11perry.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries | newspaper=New York Times |date=11 February 2011 |access-date=November 10, 2012}}] |
Robbin, Tony | 1943– | Fine art | Painting, sculpture and computer visualizations of four-dimensional geometry[{{cite book |last1=Radcliff |first1=Carter |last2=Kozloff |first2=Joyce |last3=Kushner |first3=Robert |title=Tony Robbin: A Retrospective |date=2011 |publisher=Hudson Hills Press |isbn=978-1-555-95367-6}}]
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Ri Ekl | 1984– | Visual computer poetry | Geometry-inspired poetry [{{cite web | url=https://superpresent.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/V4N3-pdf.pdf | title=Mermo | publisher=Goupi press | access-date=8 Jul 2024}}] |
Saiers, Nelson | 2014– | Fine art | Mathematical concepts (toposes, Brown representability, Euler's identity, etc) play a central role in his artwork.[{{cite web |last1=levi |first1=ryan |title=Alcatraz Displays Irrational Numbers & Irrationally Long Prison Sentences |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/12603270/alcatraz-displays-irrational-numbers-irrationally-long-prison-sentences |website=kqed}}][{{cite web |last1=Mastroianni |first1=brian |title=The perfect equation: Artist combines math and art |url=https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-perfect-equation-artist-combines-math-and-art |website=fox news|date=26 May 2015 }}][{{cite web |title=A Hedge Funder's Merger of Aesthetics and Math|last1=Dietrich |first1=Chris |url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-hedge-funders-merger-1459570721 |website=Barron's |date=April 2, 2016}}] |
Séquin, Carlo | 1941– | Digital art | computer graphics, geometric modelling, and sculpture[{{cite web|url=http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sequin.html |title=Carlo H. Séquin | EECS at UC Berkeley |publisher=Eecs.berkeley.edu |date=2015-02-21 |accessdate=2015-03-02}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/BIO/curvitae.html |title=curriculum vitae: Carlo H Sequin |publisher=Cs.berkeley.edu |date= |accessdate=2015-03-02}}][{{cite web |last1=Séquin |first1=Carlo |title=Carlo Séquin {{!}} Mathematical Art Galleries |url=http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2020-bridges-conference/sequin |website=gallery.bridgesmathart.org}}] |
Sugimoto, Hiroshi | 1948– | Photography, sculpture | Photography and sculptures of mathematical models,[{{cite web|title=Portfolio Slideshow (Mathematical Forms)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2004/12/02/magazine/20041205_PORTFOLIO_SLIDESHOW_1.html?_r=0|work=New York Times|access-date=9 June 2015 |quote=Mathematical Form 0009: Conic surface of revolution with constant negative curvature. x = a sinh v cos u; y = a sinh v sin u; z = ...}}] inspired by the work of Man Ray [{{cite web |url=http://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2015-02-07-exhibition-hiroshi-sugimoto |title=Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models|publisher=Phillips Collection |access-date=9 June 2015}}] and Marcel Duchamp[{{cite web |title=Hiroshi Sugimoto |url=http://www.gagosian.com/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto/|publisher=Gagosian Gallery |access-date=9 June 2015 |quote=Conceptual Forms (Hypotrochoid), 2004 Gelatin silver print}}][{{cite web |title=art21: Hiroshi Sugimoto |url=http://ec2-75-101-145-29.compute-1.amazonaws.com/art21/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto |publisher=PBS |access-date=9 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711193527/http://ec2-75-101-145-29.compute-1.amazonaws.com/art21/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=dead }}] |
Taimina, Daina | 1954– | Textiles | Crochets of hyperbolic space[{{cite web | url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-cuddly-crocheted-klein-quartic-curve/ | title=A Cuddly, Crocheted Klein Quartic Curve | publisher=Scientific American | date=17 November 2013 | access-date=7 June 2015}}] |
Thorsteinn, Einar | 1942–2015 | Architecture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture and architecture with polyhedral, spherical shapes and tensile structures [{{Cite web|url = http://curbed.com/archives/2015/05/06/einar-thorstein-olafur-eliasson.php|title = Architectural Mad Scientist Einar Thorsteinn Passes Away at 73|date = May 6, 2015|accessdate = 12 May 2015|website = curbed.com|publisher = |last = Wisniewski|first = Katherine}}][{{cite news|title=Ingenuity - Einar Thorsteinn|url=http://iceland-times.com/section.php?id=3988&id_art=5272|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527015859/http://iceland-times.com/section.php?id=3988&id_art=5272|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-05-27|accessdate=14 May 2015|work=Icelandic Times|issue=7|date=2011}}] |
Uccello, Paolo | 1397–1475 | Fine art | Innovative use of perspective grid, objects as mathematical solids (e.g. lances as cones)[{{cite web | title=Paolo Uccello | url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/13825/paolo-uccello-italian-about-1397-1475/ | publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum | access-date=7 June 2015}}][{{cite web|title=The Battle of San Romano, Paolo Uccello (c1435-60) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/29/art |work=The Guardian |access-date=7 June 2015 |date=29 March 2003 |quote=it is his bold enjoyment of its mathematical development of shapes - the lances as long slender cones, the receding grid of broken arms on the ground, the wonderfully three-dimensional horses, the armoured men as systems of solids extrapolated in space - that makes this such a Renaissance masterpiece.}}] |
[Mikołaj Jakub Kosmalski|Kosmalski, Mikołaj Jakub | 1986 | Digital art | Exploration of spreadsheet software capabilities (OO Calc and MS Excel), generation of finite sets of points by parametric formulas, connecting these points by curved (usually cubic) and broken lines.[Artmajeur - {{cite web |title=Mikołaj Jakub Kosmalski. Artist's website at artmajeur.com. |url=https://www.artmajeur.com/pl/mikolajkosmalski/artworks}} ] |
Verhoeff, Jacobus | 1927–2018 | Sculpture | Escher-inspired mathematical sculptures such as lattice configurations and fractal formations[{{cite web|title=Koos Verhoeff - mathematical art|url=http://www.arsetmathesis.nl/verhoeff.htm|publisher=Ars et Mathesis|access-date=8 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020410111315/http://www.arsetmathesis.nl/verhoeff.htm|archive-date=10 April 2002|url-status=dead}}] |
[Anduriel Widmark|Widmark, Anduriel | 1987– | Sculpture | Geometric glass sculpture using tetrastix, and knot theory[{{cite journal |last1=Widmark |first1=Anduriel |title=Stixhexaknot: a symmetric cylinder arrangement of knotted glass |url=https://doi.org/10.1080%2F17513472.2020.1734517 |journal=Journal of Mathematics and the Arts |pages=167–169 |doi=10.1080/17513472.2020.1734517 |date=2 April 2020|volume=14 |issue=1–2 |s2cid=221057663 |url-access=subscription }}][{{cite book |last1=Widmark |first1=Anduriel |title=Sculpture Design with Hexastix and Related Non-Intersecting Cylinder Packings |url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2021/bridges2021-293.html |pages=293–296 |language=en |date=1 July 2021|isbn=9781938664397 }}] |