A light shutter array to be employed in an optical head for a color display, a color printer or the like. The light shutter array has at least three lines of shutter elements which are made of a material having an electrooptic effect. In tile lines, shutter elements which have conductor-filmed windows and shutter elements which have bare windows are staggered. The shutter elements with bare windows function as light shutters, and the shutter elements with conductor-filmed windows function as electrodes. The shutter elements with bare windows in each line are driven in accordance with red, green or blue image data.