Robert Irwin (*1928, Long Beach, CA) lives and works in San Diego, CA. Solo exhibitions include those at Pratt Institute School of Architecture (2019), University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (2018), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2016), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2007), Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1998), Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon (1998), Reina Sofía, Madrid (1995), Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (1994), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (1994), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993). Since the early 1970s, Irwin has created site-conditioned installations and major architectural and environmental installations at institutions worldwide, including most recently Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (2016), Dia:Beacon (2015), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013), Vienna Secession (2013), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2010), and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009).
2016 |
Honoree, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art+Film Gala |
2009 |
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, Charlottesville, VA |
2007 |
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
2007 |
Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego |
1992 |
Honorary Doctorate, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles |
1984 |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship |
1979 |
Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco Art Institute |
1976 |
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
1954 |
Chaloner Award |
1954 |
James D. Phelan Award |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
Anderson Collection Museum at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles |
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
Dallas Museum of Art |
Denver Art Museum |
Des Moines Art Center |
Dia Art Foundation, New York |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul |
Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon |
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
Orange County Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
Philadelphia Museum of Art |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
Seattle Art Museum |
Sentinel Plaza, Pasadena Police Department, Pasadena, CA |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego |
The Art Institute of Chicago |
The Detroit Institute of Arts |
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |