Robert Irwin (artist)

Robert W. Irwin (born September 12, 1928) is an American installation artist who has explored keenness and the conditional in art, often through site-specific, architectural interventions that regulate the physical, sensory and temporal experience of space.

He began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the 1960s shifted to installation work, becoming a opportunist whose play a part helped to clarify the aesthetics and conceptual issues of the West Coast Light and Space movement. His upfront works often employed blithe and veils of scrim to transform gallery and museum spaces, but back 1975, he has next incorporated landscape projects into his practice. Irwin has conceived higher than fifty-five site-specific projects, at institutions including the Getty Center (1992–98), Dia:Beacon (1999–2003), and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2001–16). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles mounted the first retrospective of his take steps in 1993; in 2008, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented another, spanning fifty years in his career. Irwin acknowledged a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976, a MacArthur Fellowship in March, 1984, and was elected as a aficionada of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007. He lives and works in San Diego, California.