British artist Bridget Riley attended Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art, London. In 1960, she began to explore the dynamic potential of optical phenomena and produced her first black and white Op Art paintings. In 1965, Riley was part the MoMA, New York exhibition, ‘The Responsive Eye’. She represented Great Britain and received the International Prize for painting, at the Venice Biennale in 1968. A major retrospective exhibition of Riley’s work was held at Tate Britain in 2003.