Zdeněk Sýkora

Zdeněk Sýkora (February 3, 1920 – July 12, 2011) was a Czechoslovakian modern abstract painter and sculptor, and a pioneer of using computers in art.

[1] During the Soviet occupations of many countries after World War II, including Czechoslovakia, Sýkora was unable to hold many exhibitions, and some of the only pieces that can be seen from the late 1960s are government building projects.

While in this group, he created his first structures and realizations for architecture in the Prague neighborhood of Letná on Jindřišská Street).

Sýkora had his second retrospective exhibition in 1995, 25 years after his first one, which had been held in Špála Gallery in 1970, and was not authorized by the occupying Russians.

Sýkora's paintings are owned by galleries around the globe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the MUMOK in Vienna.