Michael Kidner was born in 1917 in the U.K. He received an honours degree in History and Anthropology at Cambridge University in 1939 and from 1940 to 1946 served in the Canadian Army. He studied art in London and Paris between 1947 and 1953. In 1957, his work was included in Metavisual, Tachiste and Abstract Art in England, the first post war exhibition of British abstract art. From 1957, he began his search for the objective use of colour leading to stripe and wave paintings emphasizing colour interaction. From 1966, he began to use colour as a code in conjunction with shape and his Columns work reflected the relationship between two and three dimensions. In the 1970s and 1980s, he explored wavy grid lines in which the area in between the lines become the structural elements of a space expressing infinity and the use of elastic cloth and fiberglass rods express spatial tension where the rods define the contour. From 1996 until the present day his imagery incorporates pentagon shapes and tulle material where the purpose is to undermine the gestalt. Kidner has had a number of one-person exhibitions and group exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London.