Wojciech Fangor was born in Warsaw on 15th November 1922 and studied art at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After the outbreak of World War 2 he was forced to continue his studies privately but was awarded a diploma, in lieu of attendance, in 1946. He worked as an assistant professor at the university from 1953 to 1961, when he left Poland for West Berlin and then England.

Fangor designed hundreds of iconic Polish film posters, developing his own distinct visual grammar which combined photo collage with bold and expressive painterly strokes.

In 1966 Wojciech Fangor moved to America where he would spend the next three decades. Just one year later, in 1970, The Guggenheim Museum in New York exhibited his work, making Fangor the first ever Polish artist to have a solo exhibition there.

Whilst his colourful spheres are instantly recognisable Wojciech Fangor was a varied artist who experimented with different styles and techniques. Some of his works used small dots of electronic pixels, others were figurative, many were inspired by the mass-media.

During the second half of the 20th century became a pioneer of op Art and dedicated his career to exploring the emotional effects of colour and form and his work has been exhibited around the world. In 1999, towards the end of his life, Wojciech Fangor returned to his Polish roots and created a studio in an old mill in a small town near Warsaw. He continued to make art and in 2014 designed murals for the station walls of the Warsaw Underground. He sadly passed away in 2015.