Robert Irwin

Dates

Born 1928, Long Beach, California

2024

Robert Irwin, Judd Foundation, New York, April 4–August 31, 2024.

2022

Robert Irwin: Full Room Skylight-Scrim V, Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, opened on 6 August 2022.

Robert Irwin: New Work, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, April 1–30, 2022.

2021

Robert Irwin: Light and Space, Kraftwerk Berlin, December 4, 2021–January 29, 2022. (Booklet)

Robert Irwin, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, December 4, 2021–March 26, 2022.

Robert Irwin: Unlights, Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles, January 9–February 27, 2021.

2020

Robert Irwin: Unlights, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, January 17–February 22, 2020.

2018

Robert Irwin, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 29–November 10, 2018.

Robert Irwin: New “SCULPTURE/CONFIGURATIONS”, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, May 11–June 23 (extended through August 17), 2018. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin: Site Determined, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, January 28–April 15, 2018. Traveled to: Pratt Institute School of Architecture, New York, September 6–November 28, 2018. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, January 23–April 21, 2018.

2017

Robert Irwin, I8 Gallery, Reykjavik, December 14, 2017–January 27, 2018.

Robert Irwin: Drawings, Quint Gallery, San Diego, May 20–August 26, 2017. (Brochure)

2016

Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., April 7–September 5, 2016. (Catalogue)

2015

Robert Irwin, Xippas Gallery, Geneva, September 18–October 31, 2015.

Robert Irwin: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, White Cube, London, September 23–November 15, 2015.

Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3, Dia: Beacon, New York, June 1, 2015–May 2017.

Robert Irwin: Cacophonous, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, April 10–May 9, 2015. (Catalogue)

2014

Robert Irwin, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, May 10–August 23, 2014. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, California, February 22–April 5, 2014.

Robert Irwin, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California, February 22–March 29, 2014.

2013

Robert Irwin: Double Blind, Wiener Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, July 5–September 1, 2013. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil—Black Rectangle—Natural Light (1977), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 27–September 1, 2013.

Robert Irwin, Pace London, 6 Burlington Gardens, June 21–August 17, 2013.

Robert Irwin: Way Out West, Peder Lund, Oslo, May 4–October 25, 2013.

2012

Robert Irwin: Dotting the i’s and Crossing the t’s, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street (Part I) and 510 West 25th Street (Part II), New York, September 6–October 20, 2012.

Robert Irwin: Dotting the i’s and Crossing the t’s, Part I, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, April 26–June 23 (extended through July 13), 2012.

2011

Robert Irwin: Way Out West, Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, November 8, 2011–January 5, 2012.

Robert Irwin: Way Out West, L & M Arts, Los Angeles, September 17–October 22, 2011.

2010

Robert Irwin: Gypsy Switch, 2010, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., November 20, 2010–March 6, 2011.

Robert Irwin: Way Out West, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, November 12, 2010–January 29, 2011.

Robert Irwin: Way Out West, Galerie Xippas, Paris, October 16, 2010–January 15, 2011.

Robert Irwin: Works in Progress, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, March 19–May 1, 2010.

Robert Irwin, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, January 12–February 21, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

Robert Irwin: Slant/Light/Volume, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, August 6, 2009–February 28, 2010.

Robert Irwin: Red Drawing, White Drawing, Black Painting, PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, January 23–February 28, 2009.

2008

Robert Irwin: Light and Space, White Cube, London, September 17–October 19, 2008.

2007

Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, October 21, 2007–April 13, 2008. (Catalogue)

2006

Robert Irwin: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue3, PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22 Street, New York, December 9, 2006–January 27 (extended through February 3), 2007. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Marfa Drawings and Marfa Project, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, October 1, 2006–July 31, 2007. (site-conditioned installation)

1998

Robert Irwin: Line Paintings 1962–1964, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, October 8–31, 1998. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Double Diamond, 1997–1998, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France, June 17, 1998–January 3, 1999. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin: A Selection of Works 1958 to 1970, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, May 1–June 19 (extended through July 24), 1998. (Catalogue; site-conditioned installation)

Prologue: x 183, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, April 12–June 14, 1998; Excursus: Homage to the Square 3, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, September 13, 1998–June 13, 1999. Reopened, September 8, 1999–June 18, 2000. (site-conditioned installation)

1997

A Site-Determined Installation by Robert Irwin: 1° 2° 3° 4°, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and La Jolla, May 18–August 31, 1997. (site-conditioned installation)

1993

Robert Irwin Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 20–August 15, 1993. Traveled to: Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, April 10–June 20, 1994; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, July 9–October 16, 1994; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, February 7–April 10, 1995. (Catalogue)

1992

Robert Irwin: 1° 2° 3° 4°, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, September 19–October 17, 1992. (site-conditioned installation)

1987

Robert Irwin: Wave Hill Green, Wave Hill Wood, Door Light Window, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, May 18–September 27, 1987. (Catalogue)

1986

Robert Irwin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 1986.

1985

Robert Irwin, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, September 13–October 12, 1985. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September–December 1985. (Catalogue)

1982

Robert Irwin: Installation: Light to Solid, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September–October 1982.

Robert Irwin at Pace, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, May 14–June 12, 1982.

1980

Robert Irwin: One Wall Removed, Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, California, May 1980.

1979

Robert Irwin: Untitled Installation, San Diego State University, California, July 29–September 1, 1979.

XIII Olympic Winter Games, Lake Placid, New York, July 2–September 3, 1979.

Robert Irwin: Untitled Installation (Transient Passage), Helen Forsan Spenser Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 1–July 15, 1979.

Robert Irwin: Space as Support, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, March 4–April 29, 1979. (Catalogue; site-conditioned installation)

1978

Robert Irwin, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, November 4–December 10, 1978. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin / Matrix 15, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, October 1–December 31, 1978. (Brochure)

1977

Robert Irwin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, April 16–May 29, 1977. (Catalogue)

1976

Robert Irwin, Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, September 27–October 1, 1976. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 28–April 4, 1976. (site-conditioned installation)

1975

Robert Irwin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 8, 1975–January 4, 1976. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin, Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, October 21–November 15, 1975. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California, October 16–28, 1975. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Continuing Responses, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, July 27, 1975–1977. (site-conditioned installation)

1974

Robert Irwin: “Soft Wall”, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, December 7, 1974–January 4, 1975. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Installation, University of California Art Galleries, Santa Barbara, December 3–15, 1974. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio, October 10–November 10, 1974. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, January 29–February 23, 1974. (site-conditioned installation)

1973

Robert Irwin: “Hard Wall”, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, December 1–28, 1973. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Works in Spaces, San Francisco Museum of Art, February 9–April 8, 1973. (site-conditioned installation)

1972

Robert Irwin, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, 1972. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, November 1972. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, 1972. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 7–16, 1972. (site-conditioned installation)

1970

Robert Irwin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, October 24, 1970–February 16, 1971. (site-conditioned installation)

Robert Irwin: Recent Work 1969–70, Artist's Studio, Venice Beach, California, October 2–25, 1970.

1969

Robert Irwin: Acrylic Discs, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, October 4–29, 1969.

Recent Work by Robert Irwin, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, August 28–September 28, 1969.

1968

Robert Irwin: Aluminum Discs, The Pace Gallery, 9 West 57th Street, New York, March 15–April 11, 1968.

Robert Irwin, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, January 16–February 18, 1968. (Catalogue)

1966

Robert Irwin: Dot Paintings, The Pace Gallery, 9 West 57th Street, New York, November 12–December 10, 1966.

1964

New Paintings by Robert Irwin, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, April 7–May 30, 1964.

1962

Recent Works by Robert Irwin, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, May 8–26, 1962.

1960

Robert Irwin, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, July 12–August 13, 1960.

Robert Irwin, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, April 18–May 14, 1960.

1959

Recent Paintings by Robert Irwin, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, March 23–April 18, 1959. (Catalogue)

1957

Robert Irwin, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1957.

2024

Irwin/Bell: The 1960s, 125 Newbury, New York, November 8, 2024–January 11, 2025.

Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990, Palm Springs Art Museum, California, September 14, 2024–February 23, 2025.

2023

Robert Irwin and Mary Corse: Parallax, Pace Gallery, London, October 10–November 11, 2023.

Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA's Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, April 2–October 1, 2023.

2022

Multiple Sights: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, November 13, 2022–February 5, 2023.

Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure/Ground, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, June 3–July 16, 2022.

Bending Light II, Pace Gallery, Seoul, March 29–May 28, 2022.

2021

Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, December 3, 2021–April 9, 2022. (Catalogue)

Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, November 23, 2021–March 20, 2022. (Traveled to Frist Art Museum, June 3–September 4, 2022). (Catalogue).

Seeing and Perceiving, The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2021–March 26, 2022. (Catalogue)

Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s, King Abdullah Financial District Conference Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 18–June 12, 2021. (Catalogue)

2020

Bending Light, Pace Gallery, Seoul, June 5–August 14, 2020.

Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, March 13, 2020–January 4, 2021.

2019

Chewing Gum III, Pace Gallery, 12/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, May 25–July 4, 2019.

2018

Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, September 26, 2018–January 6, 2019. (Catalogue)

Through the Spectrum, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 28–August 31, 2018.

Endless Summer, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, January 27–August 5, 2018.

2017

In Line, Pace Seoul, June 1–August 12, 2017.

Plastic Show, Almine Rech Gallery, London, February 9–March 25, 2017.

2016

Summer Group Show: Make Light of It, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, July 7–August 24, 2016.

Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, June 24–August 19, 2016. (Catalogue)

Into the Ether: Contemporary Light Artists, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, April 2–June 26, 2016.

Dansaekhwa & Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, January 6–March 12, 2016.

2015

2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, M Woods, December 1, 2015–February 25, 2016.

Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, November 14, 2015–February 21, 2016.

From the Archives: Art and Technology at LACMA, 1967–1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 14–October 18, 2015.

Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, February 2–November 30, 2015.

2014

Seeing Through Light: Selections From the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, Manarat Al Saadyat, Abu Dhabi, November 5, 2014–January 19, 2015.

The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, September 7, 2014–January 4, 2015. (Catalogue)

Summer Group Show, Pace Hong Kong, 15C Entertainment Building, 30 Queens Road Central, July 24–September 4, 2014.

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Carte Blanche, Pace at Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Switzerland, February 20–March 30, 2014.

2013

Aisthesis—The Origin of Sensations: Robert Irwin and James Turrell at Villa Panza, Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy, November 27, 2013–November 2, 2014. (Catalogue)

Paradise, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, July 15–August 16, 2013.

2012

The Substance of Light, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai, November 6, 2012–January 6, 2013.

Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 21, 2012–January 6, 2013. (Catalogue)

Summer Group Show 2012, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, July 30–August 24, 2012.

Sacred Geometry and Secular Science, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, July 28–October 28, 2012.

“You Don’t Know Jack”: From the collection of the foremost ultimate artist enabler, Katherine Cone Gallery, May 5–June 2, 2012.

2011

The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012. (Catalogue)

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, September 25, 2011–January 22, 2012. (Catalogue)

Venice in Venice, Palazzo Contarini Dagli Scigni, Venice, June 1–July 31, 2011.

The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, New York, February 10–March 19, 2011. (Curated by Manuel Gonzalez)

2010

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 12, 2010–April 11, 2011.

The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists, 1980–2010, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 19, 2010–January 24, 2011.

50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, September 17–October 23, 2010. (Catalogue)

Reflection, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, May 14–July 30, 2010.

Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970, David Zwirner, New York, January 8–February 6, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 15, 2009–May 3, 2010.

1969, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, October 25, 2009–April 5, 2010.

West Coast Minimalism, Foundation 20 21/Nyehaus, New York, June 26–September 7, 2009.

Vides, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February 25–March 23, 2009.

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 30–April 19, 2009. (Catalogue)

2008

The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2008–January 11, 2009. (Catalogue; texts by Giuseppe Panza and Evelyn C. Hankins)

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1958–1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October 4, 2008–January 6, 2009. Traveled to: Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, as Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro/Milan – Turin/Los Angeles, 1956 bis 1969, February 13– May 3, 2009. (Catalogue)

Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 19–June 23, 2008.

Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 10–May 19, 2008. (Catalogue)

2007

The Panza Collection: An Experience of Light and Color, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 16, 2007–February 24, 2008.

Drawing Architecture: The L.J. Cella Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 21, 2007–January 6, 2008.

Equinox: Permanent Collection Works from the 1960s and 1970s, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 2, 2007–January 7, 2008.

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 19, 2007–March 30, 2008.

Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, July 15, 2007–September 14, 2008.

Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, June 28–August 24, 2007.

Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, May 18–June 10, 2007.

Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 16–June 17, 2007.

2006

Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, November 4–December 30, 2006.

Elemental Form, L & M Arts, New York, October 19–December 9, 2006.

Cardboard, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, October 12–November 22, 2006.

A Point of Convergence: Architectural Drawings and Photographs from the L.J. Cella Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, California, June 3, 2006–January 21, 2007.

Translucence: Southern California Art from the 1960s and 1970s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, May 12–August 28, 2006. (Catalogue)

Invisible Might: Works from 1965–1971, Nyehaus, New York, May 4–June 24, 2006. (Catalogue)

Los Angeles–Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, March 8–July 17, 2006.

2005

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, July 15–October 2, 2005. (Catalogue)

Seeking Transcendence, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, February 13–April 24, 2005. (Catalogue)

2004

Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, September 26, 2004–January 30, 2005.

Monocromos, de Malevich al Presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, June 15–September 6, 2004.

Beyond Geometry: Experiment in Form, 1940s–70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 13–October 3, 2004. Traveled to: Miami Art Museum, Florida, November 18, 2004–May 1, 2005. (Catalogue)

A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958–1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 14–August 2, 2004. (Catalogue)

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 5–May 19, 2004. (Catalogue)

2003

Imagination: Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria, October 25, 2003–January 18, 2004.

Summer Travels, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 1–August 28, 2003.

2002

Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York, September 12–October 19, 2002. (Catalogue)

2000

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 22, 2000–February 25, 2001. (Catalogue)

Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection, The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, October 9, 2000–March 30, 2001. (Catalogue)

Venice/Venezia: California Art form The Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, September 2, 2000–January 7, 2001. (Catalogue)

Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 16–September, 2000.

1999

The American Century Art and Culture 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 26, 1999–February 13, 2000. (Catalogue)

Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium, California College of the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, September 25–December 11, 1999.

House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, May 23–August 8, 1999. (Brochure)

The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, March 4–May 9, 1999. (Catalogue)

The Museum: Highlights from the Collection and Archives of the Pasadena Art Museum, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, February 7–May 9, 1999. (Catalogue)

Group Exhibition, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, January 21–February 27, 1999.

1998

Sculpture, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, September 3–October 3, 1998.

Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57 Street, New York, July 6–August 21, 1998.

Material Perfection: Minimal Art & Its Aftermath Selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, February 13–April 12, 1998.

California Scheming, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, January 25–May 31, 1998.

1997

Contemporary Art in Transition: From the Collection of the Ho–Am Art Museum, Ho–Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea, October 17–December 28, 1997. (Catalogue)

Thresholds: Limits of Perception, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, October 14–25, 1997.

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, May 16–September 7, 1997. Traveled to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, November 15, 1997–February 1, 1998; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, May 8–August 23, 1998; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, October 7, 1998–January 3, 1999. (Catalogue)

1995

‘The Popular Image’: Pop Art in America, Marisa del Re Gallery and O’Hara Gallery, New York, October 23–December 9, 1995. Traveled to: Marisa del Re/O’Hara Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, December 23, 1995–January 27, 1996.

Between Light and Shadow: The Work of Robert Irwin and James Turrell, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 27–April 9, 1995.

1994

Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, August 13–November 13, 1994.

White Works, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57 Street, New York, July 8–September 9, 1994.

The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20–September 11, 1994.

Percept/Image/Object, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, February 26–May 15, 1994.

1992

Arte Americana 1930–1970, Lingotto, Turin, January 8–March 31, 1992.

1991

Frederick R. Weisman Gallery for California Art: The Inaugural Installation, San Diego Museum of Art, 1991.

Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 13–April 20, 1991. (Catalogue)

1990

Perceptual Investigations: Light and Space Works in the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, August 1990–August 1991. (Catalogue)

1987

Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, July 11–August 22, 1987.

1986

The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 23, 1986–March 8, 1987. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 17–July 19, 1987; Gemeentemuseum, the Hauge, September 1–November 22, 1987.

Light as Object, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont, May 23–August 3, 1986.

An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, January 12–March 30, 1986. (Catalogue)

1985

American Abstract Painting: 1960–1980, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, June 19–August 24, 1985.

1984

Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 12–November 18, 1984. Traveled to: Gallery 400, College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning, The University of Illinois, Chicago, January 9–February 2, 1985. (Catalogue)

The Skowhegan Celebration Exhibition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, May 1–31, 1984. (Catalogue)

1983

The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940–1980, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 23, 1983–February 19, 1984. (Catalogue)

1982

Opening Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September–October 1982.

The Rebounding Surface: A Study of Refections in the Work of Nineteen Contemporary Artists, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, August 15–September 24, 1982. (Catalogue)

American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, July 17–September 15, 1984.

Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 19–April 18, 1982. (Catalogue)

1981

Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties—The Museum as Site—Sixteen Projects, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 21–October 4, 1981. Traveled to: San Antonio Museum of Art, November 20, 1981–January 31, 1982. (Catalogue)

West/East, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, New York, January 1981.

1980

Drawing: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 4–November 9, 1980. Traveled to: United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale, June 1–September 30, 1980; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 29–June 26, 1981. (Catalogue)

Aspects of the 70’s: Sitework, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April 28–June 29, 1980. (Catalogue)

Contemporary Art from Southern California, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 26–June 8, 1980. (Catalogue)

1979

California Perceptions: Light and Space, California State University, Fullerton, November 16–December 13, 1979. (Catalogue)

An Exhibition of Important Contemporary Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, August 9–September 6, 1980.

Painting in Environment, Palazzo Reale, Milan, June 9–September 16, 1979. (Catalogue)

Aspects of the 70s: Siteworks, site project: Filigreed Line, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April 2–June 29, 1979.

Christo, Di Suvero, Irwin, Segal, Roy M. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, April 2–May 21, 1979.

The Reductive Object: A Survey a the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 7–April 29, 1979.

1978

Twentieth-Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, July 28–October 1, 1978. (Catalogue)

1977

A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 10–November 10, 1977. (Catalogue)

Less is More: An Exhibition of Minimal Painting, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, April 7–May 7, 1977. (Catalogue)

1976

American Artists: A New Decade, Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, November 14, 1976–January 2, 1977.

Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, September 3–November 21, 1976. Traveled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., May 20–September 11, 1977. (Catalogue)

Three Decades of American Art (Whitney Museum), Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, June 18–July 20, 1976.

Projects for PCA, Philadelphia College of Art, April 19–May 21, 1976.

Critical Perspectives in American Art, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 10–May 9, 1976. Traveled to: 37th Venice Biennale, July 18–October 10, 1976. (Catalogue)

Ambiente/Arte, The 37th La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione centrale ai giardini di Castello, Venice, July 14–October 10, 1976 (Catalogue)

Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 16–September 26, 1976. (Catalogue)

The Last Time I Saw Ferus, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California, March 7–April 17, 1976. (Catalogue)

1975

University of California, Irvine, 1965–75, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, November 7–December 14, 1975. (Catalogue)

A View Through, California State University Art Galleries, Long Beach, September 22–October 19, 1975. (Catalogue)

1974

Art Now 1974, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., May 30–June 16, 1974. (Catalogue)

Illumination and Reflection, Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown), New York, April 10–May 6, 1974. (Brochure)

Some Recent American Art. Exhibition organized by the International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 12–March 10, 1974; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 5–May 5, 1974; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, May 31–June 30, 1974; West Australian Art Gallery, Perth, July 26–August 21, 1974; City of Auckland Art Gallery, October 14–November 17m 1974. (Catalogue)

1973

American Art: Third Quarter Century, Seattle Art Museum, August 22–October 14, 1973. (Catalogue)

Art in Space: Some Turning Points, Detroit Institute of Arts, May 15–June 24, 1973. (Catalogue)

The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena Art Museum, California, April 24–June 3, 1973.

Works in Spaces: Stephen Antonakos, Ronald Bladen, Sam Gilliam, Robert Irwin, Dorothea Rockburne, San Francisco Museum of Art, February 9–April 8, 1973. (Brochure)

1972

The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, May 23–June 15, 1972. Traveled to Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand; Auckland City Art Gallery; National Art Gallery, Wellington, January 4–February 8, 1973; Dunedin Public Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. (Catalogue)

USA: West Coast, Kunstverein Hamburg, West Germany, January 15–February 27, 1972. Traveled to: Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Württemmbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. (Catalogue)

1971

New Works from the Walker Art Center, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, November 12–December 9, 1971.

Eleven Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London, September 30–November 7, 1971. Traveled to: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, January 20–March 1, 1972; Kunstverein, Berlin, April 5–30, 1972. (Catalogue)

Works for New Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, May 18–July 25, 1971. (Catalogue)

Art and Technology, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 10–August 29, 1971. (Catalogue)

32nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 28–April 4, 1971. (Catalogue)

Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four Artists, University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, January 11–February 14, 1971. (Catalogue)

1970

A Decade of California Color, The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th, New York, New York, November 7–December 2, 1970. (Catalogue)

Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska, October 18–November 29, 1970. (Catalogue)

Permutations: Light and Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 16–June 28, 1970. (Catalogue)

Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler, The Tate Gallery, London, May 5–31, 1970. (Catalogue)

69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, January 17–February 22, 1970. (Catalogue)

1969

West Coast 1945–1969, Pasadena Art Museum, California, November 24, 1969–January 18, 1970. Traveled to: City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ottawa; Fort Worth Art Center, Texas. (Catalogue)

Kompas 4: West Coast U.S.A., Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 12, 1969–January 4, 1970. (Catalogue)

Robert Irwin - Doug Wheeler, 1969, Fort Worth Art Center, Texas, April 1–28, 1969. Traveled to: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. (Catalogue)

The George Waterman Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, January 9–February 23, 1969.

1968

Late 50s at the Ferus, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 21–December 15, 1968.

Untitled, 1968: A National Invitational Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, November 9–December 29, 1968. (Catalogue)

Six Artists, Six Exhibitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, May 12–June 23, 1968. Traveled to: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 23–October 27, 1968. (Catalogue)

Documenta 4, Kassel, West Germany, June 27–October 6, 1968.

Los Angeles 6, Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, March 31–May 5, 1968. (Catalogue)

Gene Davis / Robert Irwin / Richard Smith, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York, March 20–May 12, 1968. (Catalogue)

1966

Robert Irwin / Kenneth Price, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 7–September 4, 1966. (Catalogue)

1965

The Studs: Moses, Irwin, Price, Bengston, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, December, 1965.

VIII Bienal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, September 4–November 28, 1965. Traveled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Catalogue)

The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, February 23–April 25, 1965. Traveled to City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. (Catalogue)

1964

Seven New Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, May 5–29, 1964. (Catalogue)

Some New Art from Los Angeles, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, May 5–24, 1964.

The Studs, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, November 1964.

1963

Altoon, Bell, Bengston, DeFeo, Irwin, Kauffman, Lobdell, Mason, Moses, Price, Ruben, Ruscha, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, June–July 1963.

1962

Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 23–December 2, 1962. Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa. (Catalogue)

Pacific Profile of Young West Coast Painters, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, June 11–July 19, 1961. Traveled to: Salt Lake Art Center, Utah, December 3, 1961–January 4, 1962; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, January 15–February 11, 1962; Lower Columbia Junior college, Longview, Washington, March 1–31, 1962; Fresno Art Museum, California, June 1962, Art Center in La Jolla, California, August 3–31, 1962; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, early September–October 7, 1962; San Jose State College, October 30–November 24, 1962. (Catalogue)

1961

Group Exhibition, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 3–29, 1961.

1960

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1960 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, August 17–September 25, 1960.

Group Exhibition, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, June 20–July 16, 1960.

Fifty Paintings by Thirty-Seven Artists of the Los Angeles Area, University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, March 20–April 10, 1960. (Catalogue)

1959

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1959 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 4–September 6, 1959. (Catalogue)

Altoon/Bengston/DeFeo/Gechtoff/Irwin/Kauffman/Kienholz/Mason/Moses/Lobdell/Smith/Richer, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, July 20–August 15, 1959.

California Painters and Sculptors, Thirty-Five and Under, Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, January 19–February 22, 1959. (Catalogue)

1958

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1958 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 21–June 29, 1958. (Catalogue)

Group exhibition, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, November–December 1958.

1957

Annual Exhibition Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 20, 1957–January 12,1958. (Catalogue)

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1957 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 22–June 30, 1957. (Catalogue)

1956

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1956 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 2–June 3, 1956. (Catalogue)

1953

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1953 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 8–June 21, 1953. (Catalogue)

1952

Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity: 1952 Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 28–August 10, 1952. (Catalogue)

Anderson Collection Museum at Stanford University, California

The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York

Carpenter Park, Dallas, Texas

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Dia Art Foundation, New York

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

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, Illinois

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Orange County Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Seattle Art Museum, Washington

Sentinel Plaza, Pasadena Police Department, Pasadena

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego

United States Courthouse, San Diego

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

2024

“Pace Gallery at Frieze Los Angeles.” Martin Cid Magazine, 24 February 2024. https://martincid.com/art/pace-gallery-at-frieze-los-angeles/.

Schrader, Adam. "There Is a Low-Key Light and Space Exhibition at LAX Airport." Artnet, 3 July 2024. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lax-airport-light-and-space-exhibition-2502544.

Zara, Janelle. “To See or Not to See: Learning from the Late Great Robert Irwin, Tourist Paintings, and What if Chris Burden Had Gone to Therapy.” ARTnews, 13 January 2024. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/reviews/to-see-or-not-to-see-january-2024-remembering-robert-irwin-1234692915/paul-pfeiffer-prologue-to-the-story-of-the-birth-of-freedom-at-the-geffen-contemporary-at-moca/

2023

Cane, Hesper. “Celebrating the Legacy of Robert Irwin, a Master of Light and Space.” Widewalls, 31 October 2023. https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/robert-irwin-obituary.

Cento, Salvatore. “Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling Review | Art Based Around Perception Struggles Through Film.” MovieWeb, 22 October 2023. https://movieweb.com/robert-irwin-a-desert-of-pure-feeling-review/#:~:text=and%20TV%20Reviews-,Robert.

Crofton, Gregory. “‘Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling’ is Worth a Long Look, Then a Few More.” Channel Nonfiction, 20 October 2023. https://www.channelnonfiction.com/robert-irwin-a-desert-of-pure-feeling-is-worth-a-long-look-and-then-a-few-more/.

D’Alessandro, Anthony. “SXSW Second Wave Includes UAR’s ‘Bottoms’, Donald Glover’s ‘Swarm’ Series, Michelle Yeoh’s ‘American Born Chinese’ & More.” Deadline, 1 February 2023. https://deadline.com/2023/02/sxsw-2023-lineup-donald-glover-michelle-yeoh-taron-egerton-bottoms-tetris-1235246892/

“Design Dispatch.” Surface Magazine, 27 October 2023. https://archive.surfacemedia.com/surface/2023-10-27.

“Design Dispatch.” Surface Magazine, 19 October 2023.

Finkel, Jori. “Robert Irwin, prominent San Diego installation artist, dies at 95.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 October 2023. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/story/2023-10-25/robert-irwin-prominent-san-diego-installation-artist-dies-at-95.

Greenberger, Alex. “Robert Irwin, Sculptor of Barely-There Art That Exists at the Limits of Vision, Dies at 95.” ARTnews, 25 October 2023. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-irwin-sculptor-light-and-space-dia-beacon-dead-1234684773/.

Griffin, Jonathan. “Robert Irwin (1928–2023).” Apollo, 26 October 2023. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/apollo-artist-interview-with-robert-irwin/.

Jebb, Louis. “Robert Irwin, pioneering creator of light and experimental art, has died, aged 95.” The Art Newspaper, 26 October 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/10/26/robert-irwin-pioneering-creator-of-light-and-experiential-art-has-died-aged-95.

Katsikopoulou, Myrto. “Robert Irwin, pioneer of the light and space movement, passes away at 95.” designboom, 26 October 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/robert-irwin-pioneer-light-space-passes-away-95-10-26-2023/.

Knight, Christopher. “Robert Irwin, pioneer of Light and Space art who designed Getty’s Central Garden, dies at 95.” Yahoo! Entertainment, 25 October 2023. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-irwin-pioneer-light-space-225342221.html.

Niland, Josh. “Groundbreaking conceptual artist Robert Irwin dies at 95.” Archinect, 26 October 2023. https://archinect.com/news/article/150391529/groundbreaking-conceptual-artist-robert-irwin-dies-at-95.

O'Keeffe, Linda. “Into the Light.” Henry Magazine, 22 December 2023. https://henrymag.com/the-creatives/into-the-light/.

“Pionier der Light-and-Space-Bewegung US-Künstler Rober Irwin stirbt mit 95 Jahren.” Monopol, 26 October 2023. https://www.monopol-magazin.de/us-kuenstler-robert-irwin-stirbt-mit-95-jahren?slide=8.

Plagens, Peter. “Remembering Robert Irwin, an Artist Beyond the Canvas.” Msn, 25 October 2023. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/remembering-robert-irwin-an-artist-beyond-the-canvas/ar-AA1j6Onz.

Rabb, Maxwell. “Robert Irwin, a key figure in the California Light and Space movement, has died at 96.” Artsy, 26 October 2023. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-robert-irwin-key-figure-california-light-space-movement-died-95.

“Remembering the architects, designers, educators, mentors, and writers we lost in 2023.” The Architect’s Newspaper, 18 December 2023. https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/remembering-architects-designers-educators-mentors-writers-lost-2023/.

Ritzel, Rebecca J. “They Have Finished Moving 225 Tons of Reimagined Art.” The New York Times, 3 April 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/arts/marabar-sudama-sculpture-tons.html

“Robert Irwin (1928-2023).” Artforum, 26 October 2023. https://www.artforum.com/news/robert-irwin-dies-ninety-five-2023-518708/.

“Robert Irwin, Artist of Light and Space, Is Dead at 95.” ArtDependence, 26 October 2023. https://www.artdependence.com/articles/robert-irwin-artist-of-light-and-space-is-dead-at-95/.

“Robert Irwin, defining member of California Light and Space movement, 1928–2023.” Art Review, 26 October 2023. https://artreview.com/robert-irwin-defining-member-of-california-light-and-space-movement-1928-2023/.

“Robert Irwin dies aged 95.” Arc Magazine, 27 October 2023. https://www.arc-magazine.com/robert-irwin-dies-aged-95/.

“Robert Irwin Renowned Light and Space Artist Dies Aged 95.” Artlyst, 26 October 2023. https://artlyst.com/news/robert-irwin-renowned-light-and-space-artist-dies-aged-95/

“Robert Irwin, Sculptor of Barely-There Art That Exists at the Limits of Vision, Dies at 95.” Gateways to Art, 26 October 2023. https://gatewaystoart.com/news/robert-irwin-sculptor-of-barely-there-art-that-exists-at-the-limits-of-vision-dies-at-95/.

Schrader, Adam. “Pioneering Artist Robert Irwin, Who Reshaped Perception With Light and Space, Has Died.” Artnet News, 26 October 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robert-irwin-obituary-2385521.

Silverman, Erica. “Best London Exhibitions: Memory, Perception, and Expression” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Whitewall, 11 October 2023. https://whitewall.art/art/best-london-exhibitions-memory-perception-and-expression.

Tallone, di Fabio. “É morto Robert Irwin, maestro del Light and Space movement americano.” ArtsLife, 26 October 2023. https://artslife.com/2023/10/26/e-morto-robert-irwin-maestro-del-light-and-space-movement-americano/.

Terry, Christa. “’If I can Make Them More Beautiful, You Know, Why Not?’” Observer, 26 October 2023. https://observer.com/2023/10/if-i-can-make-them-more-beautiful-you-know-why-not/.

Waddoups, Ryan. “The Irreducible Robert Irwin Comes Into Full View.” Surface Magazine, 19 October 2023. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/robert-irwin-documentary/.

“This Week in Culture: October 9-15” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Cultured, 9 October 2023. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/10/09/alex-israel-laura-owens-wangari-mathenge#

Weschler, Lawrence. “Robert Irwin, an artist who encouraged us to see what is already here, dies at 95.” The Architect’s Newspaper, 13 November 2023. https://www.archpaper.com/2023/11/robert-irwin-artist-encouraged-see-what-already-here-dies-95/.

2022

Angeleti, Gabriella and Benjamin Sutton. “Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 1 April 2022. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/01/three-exhibitions-to-see-in-new-york-this-weekend-1-april

“Here Are 5 Extraordinary Gardens Designed by Artists With Green Thumbs, From Frida Kahlo to Robert Irwin.” Artnet News, 16 March 2022. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-designed-gardens-2085632.

Hwang Jeung, “Go to Pace” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Noblesse, May 2022.

Knight, Christopher. "The 17 works of art you need to see in L.A. County.” Los Angeles Times, 15 August 2022. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/list/the-17-works-of-art-you-need-to-see-in-l-a-county

Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Robert Irwin drenches Kraftwerk’s industrial halls in fluorescent light” (Kraftwerk Berlin exhibition review). Wallpaper Magazine, 6 January 2022. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/robert-irwin-light-and-space-kraftwerk-berlin.

Morgan, Robert C. “Robert Irwin: New Work.” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, 3 May 2022. https://brooklynrail.org/2022/05/artseen/Robert-Irwin-New-Work-2

“Robert Irwin – Light and Space (Kraftwerk Berlin)” (Kraftwerk Berlin exhibition review). Spike Art Magazine, 12 January 2022. https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/?q=articles/robert-irwin-light-and-space-kraftwerk-berlin.

Welling, James. “Robert Irwin: New Work” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, 21 April 2022. https://brooklynrail.org/2022/04/artseen/Robert-Irwin-New-Work

2021

Anapur, Eli. “Copenhagen Contemporary Presents a Comprehensive Survey of the Light and Space Movement.” Widewalls, 20 December 2021. https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/copenhagen-contemporary-light-and-space-movement

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Robert Irwin’s virtuoso light art, minus the light.” LA Times, 28 January 2021. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-01-28/robert-irwin-unlights-light-art

2020

Battaglia, Andy. “Robert Irwin’s 9 Most Invisible Artworks, From Dots That Disappear to Scrims That Veil Secret Worlds.” ARTnews, 15 June 2020. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/robert-irwin-scrim-veil-invisible-works-1202691052/

Duron, Maximiliano, Claire Selvin and Tessa Solomon. “ARTnews in Brief: Kayne Griffin Corcoran to Present Robert Irwin Solo Show in September—and More from May 28, 2020.” ARTnews, 28 May 2020. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/breaking-art-industry-news-may-week-4-1202688614/

O.M. “Desluzes” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). L+D Magazine (June 2020): 30, illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. "Robert Irwin's Ambient Odyssey (Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 13 February 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/arts/design/robert-irwin-pace-gallery.html

Woo, Jung Ah. “Immersive Space” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art in culture (August 2020): 56–57.

2018

“A Few Things About Robert Irwin.” Directed by Lisanne Skyler. LACMA, 6 May 2018. Online video, 7:18. https://vimeo.com/265103619

Bankoff, Caroline. “The Stories Behind 5 New York Art Scene Legends.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 18 June 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/t-magazine/new-york-art-scene-legends-stories.html

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Robert Irwin, Twice” (University Art Museum. California State University Long Beach exhibition review). KCRW, 15 February 2018. http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/art-talk/robert-irwin-twice

Edelson, Zachary. "Artist Robert Irwin's Architectural Drawing and Models Go on View at Pratt" (exhibition review). Metropolis Magazine, 14 September 2018. https://www.metropolismag.com/ideas/arts-culture/robert-irwin-architectural-drawings-models-exhibition/

Jen, Alex. “Robert Irwin’s Art, on View in Long Beach, Shifts Seeing into Feeling” (University Art Museum. California State University Long Beach exhibition review). Domus, 31 January 2018. https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2018/01/31/robert-irwin-s-art-on-show-in-long-beach-shifts-seeing-into-feeling.html

Kaiser, Laura Fisher. “The Hirshhorn’s Famously Round Building Is Shaping Its Resurgence.” Interior Design, 6 November 2018: illustrated. https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/15566-the-hirshhorn-s-famously-round-building-is-shaping-its-resurgence/

Keats, Jonathon. “From the Getty to Marfa, Robert Irwin Is Making Art in Order to Make Art Obsolete” (University Art Museum. California State University Long Beach exhibition review). Forbes, 12 February 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2018/02/12/from-the-getty-to-marfa-robert-irwin-is-making-art-in-order-to-make-art-obsolete/

Lempesis, Dimitris. "ART CITIES: N. York - Robert Irwin" (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Dream Idea Machine, 17 July 2018. http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/?p=38170

Lescaze, Zoë. “Context is Everything.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 19 May 2019.

Morris, Asia. “Take a Rare Dive into the Thought Process of Light and Space Pioneer Robert Irwin” (University Art Museum. California State University Long Beach exhibition review). Long Beach Post, 31 January 2018. https://lbpost.com/articles/life/arts-culture/take-a-rare-dive-into-the-thought-process-of-light-and-space-pioneer-robert-irwin/

Ollman, Leah. “A Walk through Robert Irwin’s New 5,000-Square-Foot Sculpture” (Sprüth Magers exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 20 February 2018. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-robert-irwin-review-20180220-story.html

Vankin, Deborah. “Art, Allure Everywhere” (University Art Museum. California State University Long Beach exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 11 February 2018: F1, F6, illustrated.

2017

Jiang, Yuhui. “Nan Jia Zhou Guang Yi Shu de Ling Yun.” Artco China (March 2017): 44–49, illustrated.

Moore, Jenny. “Letter from the Director.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter, no. 121 (2017): 2–3, illustrated.

Tompkins, David. “Robert Irwin, Untitled (Dawn to Dusk), 2016: The Opening.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter, no. 121 (2017): 4–11, illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. “At Long Last: Robert Irwin Builds a Modernist, Minimalist Stonehenge in Texas.” Artinfo, 21 March 2017. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2023873/at-long-last-robert-irwin-builds-a-modernist-minimalist

2016

Agresta, Michael. “Miracle in the Desert.” Texas Monthly, July 2016. http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/robert-irwin-installation-chinati-marfa/

Betker, Ally. “Robert Irwin’s Grand Stand in Marfa.” W Magazine, 21 July 2016. http://www.wmagazine.com/story/robert-irwin-project-marfa-chinati-foundation

Bowne, Kathryn. “Beacon, New York: Robert Irwin, Dia:Beacon” (exhibition review). Sculpture 35, no. 1 (January/February 2016): 72, installation view.

Carrigan, Margaret. “How Robert Irwin Breaks the Rules of Art” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 1 September 2016. http://hyperallergic.com/320293/how-robert-irwin-breaks-the-rules-of-art/

Cotter, Holland. “Robert Irwin’s Art Takes New Forms Right Before Your Eyes at the Hirshhorn” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 8 April 2016: C19, C24 illustrated.

Duray, Dan. “Robert Irwin Plays with Light and Dark in Marfa.” The Art Newspaper, 12 July 2016.

Eckardt, Stephanie. “The Sublime is Hard to See on Your Phone: Agnes Martin and Seven Other Artists Whose Work Must Be Experienced IRL.” W Magazine, 7 November 2016. http://www.wmagazine.com/story/the-sublime-is-hard-to-see-on-your-phone-agnes-martin-and-seven-other-artists-whose-work-must-be-experienced-irl

Furman, Anna. “From Dawn to Dusk: Robert Irwin’s Installation Captivates at Any Hour.” Artnet News, 30 July 2016. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/dawn-dusk-robert-irwins-installation-captivates-hour-579488

Granberry, Michael. “Downtown Dallas Makeover: Acclaimed Artist Robert Irwin’s Creation Gets an Upgrade.” Dallas News, 17 March 2016. http://artsblog.dallasnews.com/2016/03/downtown-dallas-makeover-acclaimed-artist-robert-irwins-creation-gets-an-upgrade.html/

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin Brings ‘Big’ to Texas with Permanent Art Installation.” Interview with Tom Michael and Scott Simon. NPR.org, 23 July 2016. http://www.npr.org/2016/07/23/487151542/robert-irwin-brings-big-to-texas-with-permanent-art-installation

Irwin, Robert. “Artist Robert Irwin Checks Out the Light in West Texas.” Interview with Tom Michael. 89.3KPCC, 18 July 2016. http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2016/07/18/50574/artist-robert-irwin-checks-out-the-light-in-west-t/

Irwin, Robert. "In Conversation with Robert Irwin." Interview with Aileen Kwun. Surface, 28 September 2016. http://www.surfacemag.com/articles/robert-irwin/

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin.” Interview with Janelle Zara. Artforum, 19 July 2016. http://artforum.com/words/id=62299

Keats, Jonathon. “Robert Irwin’s Hirshhorn Retrospective Is So Extreme That You Won’t See It on Instagram or Facebook” (exhibition review). Forbes, 31 August 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2016/08/31/robert-irwin-hirshhorn/#5a2042895690

Kennedy, Randy. “Robert Irwin’s Big Visions, Barely Seen.” The New York Times, 3 January 2016: C1, C12, illustrated.

Kennicott, Philip. “Art So Good It Needs a Spoiler Alert” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition review). The Washington Post, 6 April 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/art-so-good-it-needs-a-spoiler-alert/2016/04/06/6a01a5e0-fb62-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html

Kennicott, Philip. “Artist Robert Irwin’s Roots Run Deep in Southern California.” The Washington Post, 4 February 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/artist-robert-irwins-roots-run-deep-in-southern-california/2016/02/04/0280beda-c39d-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html

Kino, Carol. “Out of the Shadows.” The Wall Street Journal Magazine, 23 January 2016: 66, 110, 111, illustrated.

Myrland, Susan. “Artist in the Moment: Robert Irwin.” San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 April 2016. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/apr/16/robert-irwin-hirshhorn-museum-washington-dc/?#article-copy

Perez-Stringari, Naila. “Inside Robert Irwin’s Dazzling New Monument to Light and Space.” The Creators Project, 21 August 2016. http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/robert-irwins-dazzling-monument-to-light-and-space

Plagens, Peter. “’Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change’ at the Hirshhorn Review” (exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-irwin-all-the-rules-will-change-at-the-hirshhorn-review-1465855156

Pobric, Pac. “Robert Irwin to Debut New Work as Part of Overview in Washington, DC” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition preview). The Art Newspaper, 7 April 2016. http://theartnewspaper.com/shows/robert-irwin-to-debut-new-work-as-part-of-overview-in-washington-dc/

Sayer, Jason. “Artist Robert Irwin’s Largest Work Ever, 16 Years in the Making, is on Display in Marfa, Texas.” The Architects Newspaper, 30 August 2016. http://archpaper.com/2016/08/robert-irwin-chinati-foundation-marfa/#gallery-0-slide-0

Schwab, Katharine. “How Robert Irwin Transformed the Hirshhorn with Light and Space” (exhibition review). Fast Company, 2 September 2016. https://www.fastcodesign.com/3063362/how-robert-irwin-transformed-the-hirshhorn-with-light-and-space

Swenson, Kirsten. “Robert Irwin” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition review). Art in America, 29 September 2016. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/robert-irwin/

Tuchman, Phyllis. “On Sight: The Hirshhorn’s Superb Robert Irwin Retrospective Sheds New Light on His Early Career” (exhibition review). Art News, 25 August 2016. http://www.artnews.com/2016/08/25/the-hirshhorns-superb-robert-irwin-retrospective-sheds-new-light-on-his-early-career/

Ure-Smith, Jane. “The Art of Robert Irwin and Dan Flavin” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition preview). Financial Times, 29 April 2016. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/144dd71e-064c-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce.html

Von Andreas Reiter Raabe, Ein Gespräch. “Robert Irwin: Schönheit Ist Wahrheit.” Kunstforum International, no. 238 (February/March 2016): 132–141, illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. “Up From Point Zero: A Q&A With Lawrence Weschler on Artist Robert Irwin” (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition review). Interview with John Anderson. Washington City Paper, 17 May 2016. http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/blog/20780399/up-from-point-zero-a-conversation-with-lawrence-weschler-about-his-lecture-about-robert-irwin

2015

Anderson, Mary. “The Conscious Heart: On the Act of Creation and the Compassionate Teachings of Art.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 43, no.1 and 2, Winter/Spring 2015: 21–31, illustrated.

Battaglia, Andy. “At 86, Still Playing With Light and Space” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Wall Street Journal, 11–12 April 2015: A15–A16, illustrated.

Bodick, Noelle. “Shows That Matter: Robert Irwin at Dia:Beacon” (exhibition review). Artinfo, 22 June 2015. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1181749/shows-that-matter-robert-irwin-at-dia-beacon

Garcia, John Daniel. “Chinati Foundation Meets Irwin Project Challenge Grant.” The Big Bend Sentinel, 19 February 2015: 6.

Griffin, Jonathan. “Light Years Ahead: Interview with Robert Irwin” (Dia: Beacon exhibition review). Apollo, 1 November 2015. https://www.apollo-magazine.com/apollo-artist-interview-with-robert-irwin/

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin.” Interview with Aileen Kwun. Surface, June/July 2015: 126–129, illustrated.

Johnson, Ken. “A Maze to Soothe the Soul” (Dia:Beacon exhibition review). The New York Times, 5 June 2015: C17, C23, illustrated.

Kennedy, Randy. “Art: Color and Light on Display” (Dia:Beacon exhibition preview).The New York Times, 31 May 2015: AR4, illustrated.

Lamster, Mark. “A Question of Vision in Marfa.” The Dallas Morning News, 2 July 2015. http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/marfa/

Morgan, Jessica and Echo He. "Huan Yu Collection: Exclusive Interview with Dia Foundation: The Destination of Minimal Art." The Art Newspaper (China), 29 September 2015.

Roux, Caroline. “Age of Enlightenment” (Dia Beacon exhibition review). Financial Times, 14–15 June 2015, illustrated.

“Shedding Light on Sensory Experience” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Aesthetica, April/May 2015: 18, illustrated.

Stoilas, Helen. “Artists Explore Unlimited’s Possibilities.” The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Daily Edition, 17 June 2015, illustrated.

2014

“A Jazz Great, a (Hilariously) Terrible Movie, Artist Robert Irwin and More Stuff to Do This Week” (Quint Contemporary Art exhibition review). San Diego City Beat, 18 February 2014. http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/blog-1505-an-jazz-great-a-(hilariously)-terrible-movie-artist-robert-irwin-and-more-stuff-to-do-this-week.html

Benning, Tom. “Noted Downtown Dallas Artwork, Thought to Be a Goner, Could Live On.” Dallas News, 14 November 2014. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141114-noted-downtown-artwork-thought-to-be-a-goner-could-live-on.ece

Carabelli, Emilia. “Quando l’arte si combina con il turismo” (Pace at Chesa Büsin exhibition review). Corriere del Ticino, 13 March 2014: 34, illustrated.

Cascone, Sarah. “Stay of Execution for Robert Irwin’s Public Sculpture in Dallas?” Artnet News, 17 November 2014.

“Chinati Foundation Meets $750,000 Challenge Grant for Robert Irwin Project.” Artforum, 11 February 2015. http://artforum.com/news/id=50184

Finkel, Jori. “Make Sure the Artists Are on Board.” The Art Newspaper, 30 May 2014. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/blogs/Make-sure-the-artists-are-on-board/32896

Gelt, Jessica. “Robert Irwin to Create a Major Installation in Marfa, Texas.” LA Times, 18 September 2014. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-robert-irwin-to-create-major-new-installation-in-marfa-texas-20140918-story.html

Jovanovic, Rozalia. “Artnet News’ Top 10 Most Expensive Living West Coast Artists.” Artnet News, 7 July 2014. http://news.artnet.com/market/artnet-news-top-10-most-expensive-living-west-coast-artists-54746

Linn, Sarah. “Fabric for Art Piece Being Tested at Cuesta College.” The San Luis Obispo Tribune, 18 May 2014. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/05/18/3070105/fabric-for-art-piece-being-tested.html?sp=/99/177/183/

Powers, John. “Robert Irwin’s Modern Ruin, Years in the Making, Set to Rise in West Texas.” Hyperallergic, 3 March 2015. http://hyperallergic.com/185587/robert-irwins-modern-ruin-years-in-the-making-set-to-rise-in-west-texas/

Rose, Frank. “A Palace of Wonders.” The New York Times, 20 July 2014: 18, illustrated.

Sanzarello, Martina. “Casa/House.” Inventario N˚09 (July 2014): 110–125, illustrated.

Tomaselli, Fred. “Top Ten: Fred Tomaselli—4. Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil—Black Rectangle—Natural Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977.” Artforum 52, no. 7 (March 2014): 153.

Vogel, Carol. “Thinking Big in Marfa.” The New York Times, 19 September 2014: C24.

Yerebakan, O. C. “Cologne – Robert Irwin at Galerie Thomas Zander Through August 23rd, 2014.” Artobserved, 19 August 2014. http://artobserved.com/2014/08/cologne-robert-irwin-at-galerie-thomas-zander-through-august-23rd-2014/

2013

Akdogan, Rey. “New York: Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil—Black Rectangle—Natural Light (1977)” (exhibition preview). Artforum 51, no. 9 (May 2013): 148, illustrated.

“Art Stuff on a train #12: “What About The Ceiling?.” (Pace London exhibition review). FAD, 23 July 2013. http://www.fadwebsite.com/2013/07/23/art-stuff-on-a-train-12-what-about-the-ceiling/

Chute, James. “Irwin/Rittermann Mural Installed in La Jolla.” U~T San Diego, 21 November 2013. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/21/murals-of-la-jolla-irwin/

Cooke, Lynne. “Best of 2013: 1. Robert Irwin (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Curated by Donna de Salvo).” Artforum 52, no. 4 (December 2013): 206, illustrated.

Esplund, Lance. “Irwin’s Eerie, Mind-Bending Show; Smart Viennese Design” (Whitney Museum o f Art exhibition review). Bloomberg, 11 July 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-11/irwin-s-eerie-mind-bending-show-smart-viennese-design.html

Gopnik, Blake. “Art at the Scrim-age Line” (Whitney Museum of Art exhibition review). The Daily Beast, 22 July 2013. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/22/robert-irwin-at-the-whitney-is-the-daily-pic-by-blake-gopnik.html

Kennedy, Randy. “Back at the Whitney, Tinkering with Perception” (exhibition preview). The New York Times, 17 June 2013: C1–C2, illustrated.

Kennedy, Randy. “Art and Technology, At Los Angeles Museum.” The New York Times, 11 December 2013: C3.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin in Marfa for Chinati Weekend.” Interview with Lorne Matalon. Marfa Public Radio, 13 October 2013. MP3 radio, 3:http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/robert-irwin-in-marfa-for-chinati-weekend/

Russeth, Andrew. “On View: ‘Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil—Black Rectangle—Natural Light’” (Whitnery Museum of American Art exhibition review). New York Observer, 26 August–2 September 2013: B1, B6, illustrated.

Smith, Roberta. “Ineffable Emptiness, From Dawn to Dusk” (Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition review). The New York Times, 26 July 2013: C19, C21, illustrated.

Smith, Roberta. “Art: Museums” (Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition review). The New York Times, 9 August 2013: C18.

Tomme, Jason. “Robert Irwin: Whitney Museum of American Art” (exhibition review). Chinati Foundation Newsletter 18 (2013): 10–17, illustrated.

Vogel, Carol. “London’s Neighborhood to Show and Be Shown.” The New York Times, 16 July 2013. C1, C2, illustrated.

“Whitney Museum of American Art: Robert Irwin” (exhibition review). Time Out New York, 22 August–4 September 2013: 48.

Weiner, Rob. “Robert Irwin, Fort D.A. Russell Hospital, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter 18 (2013): 4–9, illustrated.

Wolin, Joseph R. “Robert Irwin, Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977)” (exhibition review). Time Out New York, no. 918, 8–14 August 2013: 34, illustrated.

2012

“Arts Report: Planting New Public Art.” Voice of San Diego, 9 October 2012. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/arts/article_9576a08e-126a-11e2-abea-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=print

Campbell-Dollaghan, Kelsey. “Robert Irwin, A Wizard Of Light and Space, Still Strong At 85” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Fast Company (September 2012). http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670811/robert-irwin-a-wizard-of-light-and-space-still-strong-at-85#1

Clark, Robin. “Robert Irwin: Phenomenological Reduction.” Flash Art 45, no. 287 (November–December 2012): 58–61, illustrated.

“Galleries—Chelsea: Robert Irwin” (Pace exhibition review). The New Yorker, 24 September 2012: 17–18.

Irwin, Robert. “Media Study.” Artforum 51, no. 1 (September 2012): 405, illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “A Conversation with Robert Irwin on Light and Space III.” Indianapolis Museum of Art, 19 December 2012. Online video, 52:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCh8s10f2ws

Ollman, Leah. “Sensory Remix” (Pacific Standard Time exhibition review). Art in America, no. 1 (January 2012): 70–74, illustrated.

Perchuk, Andrew, Thomas Crow and Howard Singerman. “Pacific Standard Time: A Preliminary Conversation” (exhibition review). Art Journal 71, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 19, illustrated.

Russeth, Andrew. “Blink and You’ll Miss It” (exhibition preview). New York Observer, 11 September 2012: illustrated.

Russeth, Andrew and Dan Duray. “The 30 Best Exhibitions of 2012: ‘Robert Irwin: Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s: Parts I and II’ at the Pace Gallery.” GalleristNY, 18 December 2012. http://galleristny.com/2012/12/the-30-best-shows-of-2012/

Thorne, Sam and Stacey Allen “Pacific Standard Time” (exhibition review). Frieze, no. 144 (January/February 2012): 110–117, illustrated.

2011

Donelan, Charles. “Art Came From Pasadena: Pacific Standard Time Explores the Roots of Modern Art in SoCal” (Pasadena Art Museum review). Santa Barbara Independent, 7 December 2011. http://www.independent.com/news/2011/dec/07/art-came-pasadena/

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “On Looking” (L & M Arts exhibition review). artnet.com, 24 October 2011. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/drohojowska-philp/robert-irwin-10-24-11.asp

“Galleries—Uptown: Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New Yorker, 10 January 2011: 15.

Heinrich, Will. “’Parallax’ at Lehman Maupin” (exhibition review). The New York Observer, 28 February 2011: 48.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin: Four Proposals.” Artforum 49, no. 5 (January 2011): 186–193, illustrated.

Israel, Matthew. “Robert Irwin, Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Frieze, no. 138 (April 2011): 149, illustrated.

Pagel, David. “Art Review: ‘Robert Irwin, Way Out West’ at L & M Arts” (exhibition review). latimes.com, 22 September 2011. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/art-review-robert-irwin-way-out-west-at-lm-arts.html#more

Plagens, Peter. “Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun” (Getty Museum exhibition review). Wall Street Journal, 13 October 2011. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203633104576624720686420848.html?mod=ITP_personaljournal_3

Pollock, Lindsay. “Editor’s Letter.” Art in America, no. 9 (October 2011): 14, illustrated.

Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). artnet.com, 19 January 2010. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/weekend-update-Robert-Irwin1-19-11.asp

Schad, Ed. “Robert Irwin” (L & M Arts exhibition review). Art Review:, no. 55 (December 2011): 126–127, installation view.

Weschler, Lawrence. “How I Got That Story.” Art in America (October 2011): 142–149, illustrated.

2010

Baker, Kenneth. “Robert Irwin breaks ‘light and space’ barriers.” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 February 2010: illustrated.

Esplund, Lance. “Art: California Gleaming” (David Zwirner exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 30–31 January 2010: W14.

Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: ‘Primary Atmospheres’” (exhibition review). The New York Times, 15 January 2010: C32.

Khazam, Rhama. “Paris: Robert Irwin, Galerie Xippas” (exhibition review). Artforum.com, http://www.artforum.com/ (accessed 2 November 2010).

Loos, Ted. “Help Wanted.” Art & Antiques (June 2010): 79, installation view.

Montreuil, Gregory. “Reviews: Primary Atmospheres” (exhibition review). Flash Art 43, no. 271 (March–April 2010): 116.

Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Art World: Way Out West” (David Zwirner exhibition review). The New Yorker, 25 January 2010: 76–77, discussed.

Viveros-Fauné, Christian. “Art: California Sweet” (David Zwirner exhibition review). The Village Voice, 27 January–2 February 2010: 28.

2009

Darwent, Charles. “Art Review: Robert Irwin, Slant/Light/Volume” (Walker Art Center exhibition review). Art Review (October 2009): 131, illustrated.

Esplund, Lance. “Robert Irwin: Red Drawing, White Drawing, Black Drawing” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 21–22 February 2009: W9.

Finch, Charlie. “A Bad Light Show” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Artnet.com, 26 January 2009. http://www.artnet.com.

Frankel, David. “Rober Irwin: PaceWildenstein” (exhibition review). Artforum 47, No. 8 (April 2009): 184, illustrated.

Lawrence, James. “Judd; Irwin; Oursler” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The Burlington Magazine (June 2009): 424–425, installation view.

2008

Bedford, Christopher. “Robert Irwin––Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego” (exhibition review). The Burlington Magazine 150, no. 1259 (February 2008): 139–140.

Bell, Eugenia. “Coast to Coast.” Frieze Magazine, no. 118 (October 2008): 33–34, illustrated.

Ollman, Leah. “The Geometry of Sight” (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibition review). Art in America, no. 4 (April 2008): 120–125, 177, illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. “Embeddedness: Robert Irwin in His Seventies.” Virginia Quarterly Review 84, no. 2 (Spring 2008):188–217, illustrated.

2007 

“Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The New Yorker, 8 January 2007: 8, 14.

Bedford, Christopher.“Abstraction as Investigation: Robert Irwin’s ‘Dot Paintings’,” The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1254 (2007): 621–628.

Bedford, Christopher. “San Diego: Robert Irwin” (Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition review). Artforum.com, http://www.Artforum.com/ (accessed 10 December 2007).

Chinati Foundation Newsletter 12 (October 2007).

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The New York Times, 12 January 2007, Weekend/Arts: 42, illustrated.

Diehl, Carol. “Robert Irwin at PaceWildenstein” (exhibition review). Art in America (September 2007): 158–159, illustrated.

Finkel, James. “Artist of Light, Space and, Now, Trees.” The New York Times, 14 October 2007: 35+, illustrated.

Frankel, David. “Previews: Robert Irwin” (exhibition preview). Artforum (September 2007): 181, illustrated.

Graves, Jen. “Statues with Limitations” (Seattle Art Museum/Olympic Sculpture Park). The Stranger, 16 January 2007. http://www.thestranger.com/.

Irwin, Robert. “On Robert Irwin: Lawrence Weschler and Robert Irwin in Conversation.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter 12 (2007): 32–48, illustrated.

Knight, Christopher. “Robert Irwin’s Use of Light, Space and Perception” (Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego exhibition review). Los Angles Times, 13 November 2007: illustrated.

Kohn, Adrian. “On Robert Irwin: See Like Irwin.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter 12 (2007): 20–31, illustrated.

Koshalek, Richard. “Famous in 2112?” Art News 106 (November 2007): 206, discussed.

La Rocco, Ben. “Robert Irwin: ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue3’” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007: 46, illustrated.

“Light, Time, and Three Dimensions” (exhibition review). The New Yorker, 13 August 2007: 13, discussed.

Levin, Kim. “Reviews: New York—Robert Irwin, PaceWildenstein” (exhibition review). Art News 106 (April 2007): 130, illustrated.

Silverstein, Jake. “On Robert Irwin: The Hospital.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter 12 (2007): 49–51, illustrated.

Tuck, Douglas. “On Robert Irwin: Photographs.” Chinati Foundation Newsletter 12 (2007): 1–19, illustrated.

Van Gelder, Lawrence. “Arts, Briefly: American Academy Honors.” The New York Times, 17 May 2007: E2.

2006 

Grosz, David. “Arts & Letters, Gallery–Going: Light and Shapes, Enough for Everyone” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). New York Sun, 14 December 2006: 13.

Knight, Christopher. “Still An Island Apart.” Los Angeles Times, 19 November 2006.

“Marfa Open House Puts Focus on Art” (exhibition preview). Dallas Morning News, 29 September 2006.

Naves, Mario. “An Eminent Art Historian Says Thanks for Nothing.” The New York Observer, 4 December 2006: 14.

“Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Modern Painters (December 2006–January 2007): 138.

2005 

Hirsch, Faye. “Abstract Generations” (exhibition review). Art in America (October 2005): 123–129+.

Miles, Christopher. “Translucence: Southern California Art from the 1960s and 1970s” (exhibition preview). Artforum (May 2006): 136, illustrated.

2004

2004 Kimmelman, Michael. “‘A Minimal Future’: How Not Much Is a Whole World” (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition review). New York Times, 2 April 2004.

2003 

“Art World: Art Blooms in Beacon.” Art in America (May 2003): 168.

Cassidy, Victor. “Ed Moses at Klein Art Works.” Art in America (April 2003): 149.

Croft, Catherine. “Industrial Flair.” Architects Journal 217, no. 7 (12 June 2003): 32–40.

MacAdam, Barbara A. “Reviews. Dia: Beacon.” Art News (Summer 2003): 160.

Nobel, Philip. “Size Matters.” Artforum International (February 2003): 51.

Perez, Christophe. “Dia Beacon, havre de l’art.” L’Oeil (Lausanne), June 2003: 47.

Princenthal, Nancy. “Dia: Beacon The Imperturbables.” Art in America (July 2003): 62–72.

Raber, Anne. “Nature: A Museum Garden Multi–Tasks.” New York Times, 29 May 2003: F6.

Russell, James S. “Dia: Beacon.” Architectural Record 191, 10 (October 2003): 108–115.

Sischy, Ingrid. “Shining Beacon: Thinking Big. Thinking Out Of The Box. Thinking Art. Interview Talks To The Director Of A Brave New Museum.” Interview (July 2003): 76–85.

Stevens, Mark. “Soho on the Hudson.” New York, 26 May 2003: 60+.

Wilkin, Karen. “The Gallery: Minimal Art, Maximal Setting.” Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2003, Leisure & Arts: D8.

2002 

Cappellieri, Alba. “The New Dia Beacon in New York.” Domus, no. 851 (September 2002): 36.

Irwin, Robert. Interview by Marianne Stockebrand. In Chinati Foundation Newsletter 7 (2002): 20–25.

Rybczynski, Witold. “Garden Party.” Rev. of Robert Irwin Getty Garden, by Lawrence Weschler. Los Angeles Times Book Review, 22 September 2002: 8–9.

Weschler, Lawrence. “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Metropolis (October 2002): 116–1120, 155.

Yablonsky, Linda. “The Ferus Gallery” (Gagosian Gallery exhibition review). Art News (November 2002): 267.

Zevi, Adachiara. “The City as a Work of Art.” Lotus International, no. 113 (2002): 31–34.

2001

Caotorta, Fracesca Marzotto. “Getty Center Garden.” Abitare (Milan), no. 412 (December 2001): 82–87.

Irwin, Robert. Interview by Marianne Stockebrand. In Chinati Foundation Newsletter 6 (2001): 13–23.

Vetrocq, Marcia E. “Italy: New and Improved.” Art in America (January 2001): 91–97, 126.

2000 

Diehl, Carol. “Robert Irwin’s Doors of Perception.” Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Spring 2000): 18–21.

Esplund, Lance. “New York Letter. Lit: Three Artists Sculpting With Light.” Modern Painters (Spring 2000): 108–111.

Littlejohn, David. “‘Made in California’.” Review of the exhibition “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Wall Street Journal, 8 December 2000: W17C.

Nobel, Philip. “Mixed Media for an Artist: Lawn, Light and House.” The New York Times, 15 June 2000: F1, F8.

Vogel, Carol. “Pace Artist Is Designing New Gallery.” The New York Times, 15 September 2000: E28.

Weschler, Lawrence. “Discriminations.” Doubletake 6, no. 3 (Summer 2000), 86–91, illustrated.

1999 

Diehl, Carol. “Robert Irwin’s Doors of Perception.” Art in America (December 1999): 77–83.

Kutner, Janet. “Like His Works, Irwin Shifts and Changes.” The Dallas Morning News, 31 October 1999: 1C, 12C.

1998

Allington, Edward. “Buddha Built My Hot Rod.” Frieze (January–February 1998): 54–59.

“Art: Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The New Yorker, 1 June 1998: 17.

“Arte: Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Vanidad 46 (June 1998): 12.

Bell, J. Bowyer. “Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Review, 15 May 1998: 43–44.

Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Robert Irwin: The Getty’s Central Garden.” Sculpture (July/August 1998): 10–11.

Cotter, Holland. “A Tour Through Chelsea, The New Center of Gravity.” The New York Times, 15 May 1998: E29, E33.

Diehl, Carol. “Reviews: Robert Irwin.” Art News (June 1998): 121.

Duncan, Michael. “Live from the Getty.” Art in America (May 1998): 98–101.

Frankel, David. “Robert Irwin: DIA Center for the Arts/PaceWildenstein” (exhibition review). Artforum (December 1998): 121.

Glueck, Grace. “On a Journey Through a Maze, Contemplating Light and Color.” The New York Times, 13 November 1998: E37.

Kimmelman, Michael. “Robert Irwin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). The New York Times, 12 June 1998: E37.

Levin, Kim. “VOICE CHOICES: Robert Irwin.” Village Voice, 28 April 1998: 82.

Newhall, Edith. “Installation Light Touch.” New York, 27 April 1998: 81.

Pagel, David. “Enticed Into the Worlds of Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin” (PaceWildenstein exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 30 October 1998.

Pincus, Robert L. “The Arts.” The San Diego Union Tribune, 18 October 1998: E–1, E–4–5.

Smith, Roberta. “The Ghosts of SoHo.” The New York Times, 27 August 1998: E1, E2.

Schwabsky, Barry. “Preview Winter/Spring ‘98: Robert Irwin.” Artforum (January 1998): 30.

Stevens, Mark. “Lost in Space.” New York, 4 May 1998: 132–133.

Stromme, Elizabeth. “Something About Azaleas.” Buzz (April 1998): 30, 32.

Thea, Carolee. “Robert Irwin: De–objectifications for Philosophic and Actual Bodies.” Sculpture (October 1998): 26–29.

Weber, Bruce. “Art and Architecture, Dueling on a High Plain.” The New York Times, 29 April 1998: E1, E4.

1997

Anderson, Kurt. “Letter from Los Angeles: A City on a Hill.” The New Yorker, 29 September 1997: 66–73.

“A Site–Determined Installation by Robert Irwin: 1º 2º 3º 4º.” View: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (July–August–September 1997): 2.

D’Arcy, David. “Lights. Camera. Getty.” Los Angeles Magazine (November 1997): 84–91, 169–170.

Knight, Christopher. “An Artwork That Will Grow On You.” Los Angeles Times, 17 December 1997: F1, F4.

Muchnic, Suzanne. “Updating the Getty.” Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1997: Calendar, F1, F22.

Muchnic, Suzanne. “What the Getty Can’t Buy: Time.” Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1997: Calendar, F1, F9.

Vogel, Carol. “Inside Art: More Modernity For the Getty.” The New York Times, 26 December 1997:

Weschler, Lawrence. “When Fountainheads Collide: Robert Irwin and Richard Meier Tangle Over The Getty Center’s Garden.” The New Yorker, 8 December 1997: 60–70.

1996

Decker, Andrew. “Gettyworld.” Art News (May 1996): 110–116.

Douglas, Ann. “High Is Low.” The New York Times Magazine, 29 September 1996: 175–180.

McKenna, Kristine. “Uncommon Grounds.” Los Angeles Times, 7 April 1996: calendar, 3, 84.

1995

Alvarez, Juan A. “El artista californiano Robert Irwin expone en el Centro de Arte Reina Sofía sus <<diálogos con la luz>>.” Diario de León, 7 February 1995: 35.

Cameron, Dan. “Two Years Before the Mast.” Artforum (March 1995): 11, 119.

“Capital del arte contemporáneo.” El Ideal Gallego, 13 February 1995.

“Dispersión.” José Luis: 42.

Efe. “Arte para el fin del milenio.” Diario de León, 9 February 1995: 52.

Efe. “El centro Reina Sofía inaugura una muestra retrospectiva de Robert Irwin.” Faro De Vigo, 8 February 1995.

Efe. “El Centro de Arte Reina Sofía inauguró una muestra del artista Robert Irwin.” El Ideal Gallego, 8 February 1995.

Efe. “Muestra retrospectiva del californiano Robert Irwin en el Reina Sofía.” La Informacion de Madrid, 8 February 1995: 26.

Efe. “Robert Irwin, en el Reina Sofía.” Diari De Tarragona, 8 February 1995.

Efe. “Robert Irwin inaugura una Retrospectiva en el Reina Sofía.” El Comercio, 8 February 1995.

“El Centro Reina Sofía dedica una muestra retrospectiva a Robert Irwin.” El Mundo, 8 February 1995: 93.

Filler, Martin. “Meier’s Marvel.” Harper’s Bazarr (November 1995): 208–211.

Florez, Fernando Castro. “Herbras de luz.” Diario 16 (27 February 1995): 61.

“Irwin, en el Reina Sofía.” Lanza, 3 February 1995.

“Irwin inaugura una antológica en el Museo Reina Sofía.” La Nueva España, 8 February 1995.

Jiménez, Pablo. “Robert Irwin: El Orden Minimalista.” ABC, 17 February 1995: 27.

“Juan Abelló paga sus impuestos con un cuadro de Antoni Tàpies.” Expansion, 8 February 1995.

Knight, Christopher. “A Blue–Chip Gallery Sees Blue Skies in L.A.” Los Angeles Times, 13 August 1995: 53, 56.

Kuspit, Donald. “Beyond the Iron Cage.” Sculpture (May–June 1995): 24–27.

Landi, Ann. “Lannan Hangs It Up.” Art News (September 1995): 44

“Madrid se llena de arte para Arco 95.” El Pais, 7 September 1995: 41.

Moreno, Fernando. “La Calle: Robert Irwin en Madrid.” 20 February 1995: 42.

“New Building for San Diego Museum.” Art West Newspaper, February 1995: 7.

Ortega, Pilar. “El artista no cuenta en la obra pública.” Ya, 4 February 1995: 55.

“Retrospectiva de Irwin en el Centro Reina Sofía.” La Voz de Asturias, 8 February 1995.

“Retrospectiva de Robert Irwin.” Guía Del Olio, 13 February 1995: 48.

“Retrospectiva de Robert Irwin en el Centro Reina Sofía.” ABC, 8 February 1995: 52.

“Robert Irwin.” Tiempo, 13 February 1995: 100.

“Robert Irwin.” Diario de Navarra, 8 February 1995.

“Robert Irwin, en el Reina Sofía.” Ultima Hora, 8 February 1995.

“Robert Irwin expone en el Reina Sofía.” Deia, 8 February 1995.

“Robert Irwin: Retrospectiva en el Reina Sofía.” Las Provincias, 13 February 1995.

1994

“Au Musée d'Art moderne Robert Irwin.” Le Courrier de Paris (June 1994).

Barnet, Andrea. “The Art of Being There.” The New York Times Book Review, 1 May 1994: 18.

Cotter, Holland. “Masterpieces of the Postwar Era.” The New York Times, 12 August 1994: C3.

Delbecq, Françoise. “Robert Irwin, Fiat Lux!” Elle (French edition), 5 September 1994.

Domino, Christophe. “L'art contemporain.” Editions Scala Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM–CCI: 66.

Domino, Christophe. “Robert Irwin.” Beaux Arts Magazine (July/August 1994): 94–95.

Ducloux, Sophie. “Robert Irwin.” Le journal des expositions, no. 18 (1994).

Fechner–Smarsly, Von Thomas. “Beim Sehen vergessen, daß man sieht.” Frankfurter Rundschau, 28 April 1994.

Ferrandi, Marie–Paule. “Robert Irwin.” Voir (September 1994).

Gauville, Hervé. “Irwin sort De L'ombre.” Liberation, 24 August 1994.

Grout, Catherine. “Robert Irwin.” Artpress (October 1994): 76.

“Het verband tussen kunst en een wandklok.” De Morgen, 31 August 1994.

Imdahl, Georg. “Fenster zur Welt.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 May 1994.

Jodidio, Philip. “La Conquête de L'Espace.” Connaissance des Arts (October 1994).

Kipphoff, Von Petra. “Bilder ohne Rand und Rest.” Die Zeit, 29 April 1994: 61.

“La Lumière de Robert Irwin.” Le Figaro/FigaroScope, 7 September 1994.

“L' irresistible ascension de Robert Irwin.” Vogue (French edition), October 1994: 116–117.

“¿Más Arte Español en el Cars?” ABC, 16 December 1994: 78.

Meixner Christiane. “Robert Irwin Raum–Erlebnis.” Schnüss, May 1994.

Plath, Carina. “Sitting down with Einstein.” Das Kunst-Bulletin (June 1994): 30–37.

Pradel, Jean–Louis. “La lumière et l'espace.” Evenement, 1 September 1994.

Redakteurin, Von unserer; Hasse, Amy. “Der Raum weitet sich.” Kölner Stadt–aAnzeiger, no. 9/10 (April 1994).

“Robert Irwin.” Antiques Auctions (September 1994).

“Robert Irwin.” Arte Magazine (August 1994): 20.

“Robert Irwin.” LaCroix, 1 October 1994.

“Robert Irwin.” La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 16 September 1994.

“Robert Irwin.” L'Rchitecture D'Aujourd'hui, September 1994.

“Robert Irwin.” Paris Le Journal, 15 July 1994.

Rowlands, Penelope. “International: Robert Irwin.” Art News (French edition), November 1994: 167–168.

Santacreu, Elisabeth. “L'univers d'un architecte.” le Parisien, 6 September 1994.

Scarborough, James. “Robert Irwin: Vagaries of Perception.” Flash Art (May/June 1994): 96–98.

Schneider, Von Bruno F. “Zaubern mit Gaze und Farbe.” Kölnische Rundschau, 8 April 1994.

Thiele, Carmela. “Dialog mit der Natur.” Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 April 1994: 85.

Tully, Judd. “Auction Reviews: Contemporary Art.” Art + Auction (January 1994): 98.

Wilczek, Frank. “1012 Degrees in the Shade.” The Sciences (January/February 1994): 22–30.

1993

“Alumni Focus.” O: A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of Otis School of Art and Design (Summer 1993).

Amor, Mónica. “N.Y. Un Otoño Para El Arte.” Nuevo ESTILO (Columbia) 3, no. 15 (1993).

Baker, Kenneth. “Painter's Show Is Very L.A.” San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 1993: C3–C4.

Balken, Debra Bricker. “Robert Irwin at Pace.” Art in America (January 1993): 99: illustrated.

Bonami, Francesco. “Robert Irwin, Justen Ladda, Robert Gober, Ilya Kabakov: Prop Art.” Flash Art (January/February 1993): 86–87:illustrated.

Brougher, Kerry. “Robert Irwin.” The Contemporary (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), June/July 1993: 9–10.

Cohen, Michael. “Los Angeles: Robert Irwin/MOCA.” Flash Art (November/December 1993): 114.

Donohue, Marlena. “Irwin focus of MOCA conceptual art exhibit.” The Daily Breeze/News Pilot, 18 June 1993.

Fishburn, Karen. Design Journal (August 1993).

Jarrell, Joe. “Reviews: Los Angeles, California.” Sculpture (November/December 1993): 55–56.

Knight, Christopher. “Irwin's Search for the Poetry of Light, Space.” Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1993: F1, F3.

Leovy, Jill. “Of Light and Space - Artist's Sculpture Is So Tall Campus Has No Site for It.” The Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1993: B1, B8.

Lewis, Jim. “A View with a Room.” Harper's Bazaar, June 1993.

Littlefield, Kinney. “Visual Wizard Inspires Meditation.” Orange County Registrar (June 1993).

McKenna, Kristine. “A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of an Artist by Those Who Know Best.” Los Angeles Times/Calendar, 13 June 1993: 4, 5, 80–85.

Morgan, Kitty. “In search of the why of art.” The Orange County Register, 20 June 1993: 38–39.

Munchnic, Suzanne. “Robert Irwin/Museum of Contemporary Art.” Art News (October 1993): 173.

“Museum Preview 1993–94.” Art in America Annual (August 1993): 19.

Newman, Morris. “Whoosh!” LA Downtown News, 19 July 1993: 16, 19.

Nilsen, Richard. “Caught in the Act of Seeing.” Arizona Republic, 4 July 1993: E1, E5.

Ollman, Leah. “A Trolly's-Eye-View.” Art News (September 1993): 25–26.

Pincus, Robert L. “In retrospect, two county artists gain stature.” The Chicago Tribune, 18 August 1993.

Pincus, Robert L. “Irwin Keeps the Fine Arts of Wonder Alive.” San Diego Union, 27 June 1993.

Plagens, Peter. “The Big Daddy of Light and Space.” Newsweek, 2 August 1993: 54.

“Robert Irwin.” View (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla), July/August/September, Quarterly 1993.

Rugoff, Ralph, “The Light and Space Man.” LA Weekly, 16–22 July 1993: 39–40.

Smith, Richard. “The Elusive Object.” Artweek 24, no. 15 (5 August 1993): 4–5, 13.

Sobchack, Vivian. “From Space to Place.” Artforum (November 1993): 71–74, 122, 128.

Sullivan, Meg. “Hometown boy gets site-specific in L.A.” Daily News, 20 June 1993: 9–10.

Sullivan, Meg. “Remembering the presence of a wall light.” Daily News, 20 June 1993: 9.

Weschler, Lawrence. “In a Desert of Pure Feeling.” The New Yorker, 7 June 1993: 80–91.

“Ze News.” Galeries Magazine (Summer 1993): 15–17.

1992

Avgikos, Jan. “Robert Irwin.” review, Artforum (November 1992): 103–104.

Friis–Hansen, Dana & Y.K. “Robert Irwin.” Space Design, no. 338 (November 1992): 60–61.

“Goings On About Town.” The New Yorker, 19 October 1992.

Koshalek, Richard. “MOCA's Maverick.” Art News (February 1992): 39–40.

Larson, Kay. “The Light Fantastic.” New York, 19 October 1992: 113–114: illustrated.

Levin, Kim. “Art: in Brief.” The Village Voice, 13 October 1992: 82.

“Museum Preview 1992–93.” Art in America Annual (August 1992): 29.

Newhall, Edith. “Galleries.” New York, 14 September 1992: 72–74.

Solnit, Rebecca. “Living Places.” Artspace (January–April 1992): 36–40.

Smith, Roberta. “Matter Turned Into Light and Space.” The New York Times, 25 September 1992: C29: illustrated.

Vetrocq, Marcia. “Back to Basics.” Art in America (April 1992): 67–71.

1991

Berman, Avis. “Public Sculpture's New Look.” Art News (September 1991): 102–109.

Jarmusch, Ann. “More patchwork than gold mine.” Tribune (San Diego), 25 March 1991: C–1, 6.

Lister, Priscilla. “SDMA Funds Growing, And Weisman Gallery Opens.” San Diego Daily Transcript, 22 March 1991.

Lister, Priscilla. “SDMCA Gets Closer To Securing Space In Great American Plaza.” San Diego Daily Transcript, 21 February 1991.

Pincus, Robert. “A welcome exhibit, most of it worth seeing.” The San Diego Union, 25 May 1991.

Sutter, Janet. “Art gains a grand preview.” The San Diego Union, 17 March 1991.

Wasserman, Isabelle. “New gallery opens Saturday.” The San Diego Union, 18 March 1991.

Wilson, William. “Sentinal Plaza.” (Pasadena) L.A. Times, July 1991.

1990

“Battling for Tenants in a Sluggish Market.” The New York Times, 4 March 1990.

Bois, Yve–Alain. “Panza the Idealist?” The Journal of Art, October 1990: 29.

Cohen, Neil. “Worker in Progress.” Continental Profiles, September 1990: 33, 48, 53–61.

“Exploring the Art of Light and Space.” The Journal of Art (December 1990).

“Goings on About Town.” The New Yorker, 5 March 1990.

Joselit, David. “Public Art & The Public Purse.” Art in America (July 1990).

Lister, Priscilla. “SDMA Receives Weisman.” San Diego Daily Transcript, 21 September 1990: 3A, 6A.

Pincus, Robert. “The Public & Private Genius of Visionary Robert Irwin.” San Diego Union, February 1990.

Sherman, Lola. “Area artist backs out of I–5 overpass project.” Tribune (San Diego), 2 November 1990.

1989

Lebowitz, Cathy and Robinson, Walter. “Artworld.” Art in America (March 1989).

Joselt, David. “Lessons in Public Sculpture.” Art in America (December 1989).

Morgan, Stuart. “Past, Present, Future.” Artscribe (Summer 1989).

1988

Cameron, Dan. “High–Tech Redux.” Flash Art (Summer 1988).

Mumma, Phil. “Billy Al Bengston; The Sport of Making Art.” The Museum of California (July/August 1988).

1987

Brenson, Michael. “City as Sculpture Garden: Seeing the New and Daring.” The New York Times, 17 July 1987.

Goodman, Jonathan. “Perceiving the Garden: Robert Irwin at Wave Hill.” Arts (November 1987).

Phillips, Patricia C. “Robert Irwin Wave Hill.” Artforum (November 1987).

1986

Brenson, Michael. “Is Neo–Expressionism an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?” The New York Times, 5 January 1986, Section 2: 1, 12.

Esterow, Milton. “How Public Art Becomes a Political Hot Potato.” Art News (January 1986).

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin.” Interview with Milly Glimcher. ISSUE, A Journal for Artists (Winter 1986): 28–30, illustrated.

McGill, Douglas C. “Sculpture Goes Public.” The New York Times Magazine, 27 April 1986.

1985

Princenthal, Nancy. “Robert Irwin at Pace” (exhibition review). Art in America (April 1986): 193–195.

“Robert Irwin at Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Artforum International 24, no. 5 (January 1986): 87.

“Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 4 October 1995.

“The Talk of the Town: 'Seeing'.” The New Yorker, 30 September 1985: 27–29.

Tomkins, Calvin. “Knowing in Action.” The New Yorker, 11 November 1985.

1984

Glueck, Grace. “A Collection That Breathes the Spirit of Modernism.” The New York Times, 8 April 1984: 33, 35.

Korber, Dorthy. “McArther Award.” Long Beach Telegram, 15 February 1984.

McEvilley, Thomas. “Robert Irwin, Public Safety Building, Old Post Office.” Artforum (June 1984).

McEvilley, Thomas. “Review.” Artforum (Summer 1984).

Wilson, William. “Art Awards to Turrell and Irwin.” L.A. Times, February 1984.

1983

Failing, Patricia. “San Diego Big Bird on Campus.” Art News (November 1983).

“9 Spaces 9 Trees.” Seattle Post Intelligence, July 1983.

“Old Post Office Installation.” The Washington Post, September 1983.

Tompkins, Calvin. “Like Water in A Glass.” The New Yorker, 21 March 1983.

1982

Evren, Robert. “From Window to Wall: Robert Irwin's Untitled.” Bulletin, Allen Memorial Art Museum (1982).

“New Light On a Socratic Artist.” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April 1982.

“Robert Irwin: Taking Art to the Vanishing Point.” International Herald Tribune, 25 September 1982.

Schjeldahl, Peter. “Improvising in Art and Life.” Review of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. The New York Times Book Review, 18 April 1982.

“Taking Art to Point Zero.” The New Yorker, March 1982.

Weschler, Lawrence. “Lines of Inquiry.” Art in America (March 1982).

Wilson, William. “Milestone Biography.” L.A. Times, March 1982.

1981

Butterfield, Jan. “The Enigma Suffices.” Images and Issues (Winter 1981).

Celant, Germano. “L'espace entre parantheses.” Art Press International (November 1981).

Stevens, Mark. Review. Newsweek, 17 August 1981.

“Surrendering to Presence, Robert Irwin, Esthetic Integration.” Artforum (November 1981).

1979

Atkins, Robert. “Irwin Trips the Light Fantastic.” Art Week, 14 April 1979.

Fischer, H. “Space As Support.” Artforum (October 1979).

Jankowski, Wanda. “Seeing Space in a New Light.” Lighting Design and Application, November 1979.

Knight, Christopher. “Review.” Artforum (October 1979).

Plagens, Peter. “Robert Irwin’s Bar Paintings.” Artforum (March 1979): 41–43, illustrated.

Wolfe, Clair. “On Art Writing. Part I: Structuring the Conceptual Environment.” LAICA Journal, June and July 1979: 44–47.

1978

Fagan, Beth. “Gallery Return Set by Artist” (Portland Center for the Visual Arts exhibition review). Oregonian (Portland, OR), 1 December 1978.

Irwin, Robert. “Interview: The Art of Installation.” By Paul Sutinen. Willamette Week (Portland, OR), 1978.

“Robert Irwin's Line Paintings.” Artforum (Fall 1978).

Rocchia, Andy. “Empty Space: Is Less More?” (Portland Center for the Visual Arts exhibition review). Oregon Journal, 18 November 1978.

“Skinn-Annuel.” Art Actuel (1978).

1977

“The Career That Rejected Studio Art.” New York Times, 8 May 1977.

Kingley, April. “Wave the Magic Wand.” Soho Weekly News, May 1977.

“Made In California.” American Art Review (July 1977).

“Robert Irwin's Alchemy of Perception.” The Village Voice, 9 May 1977.

“Robert Irwin's Whitney Project: Retrospectives and Prospects.” LAICA Journal (July/August 1977).

Russell, John. “Robert Irwin at the Whitney.” The New York Times, 22 April 1977.

Treib, Marc. “Architectural Versus Architecture: Is an Image a Reality.” Architectural Association Quarterly (1977).

1976

Hazlitt, Gordon. “Incredibly Beautiful Quandary.” Art News (May 1976).

Levine, Edward. “Robert Irwin: World Without Frame.” Art Magazine (February 1976).

Marmer, Nancy. “Reviews.” Artforum (February 1976).

Morrison, C.L. “Chicago.” Artforum (February 1976).

“Robert Irwin: On the Periphery of Knowing.” Arts Magazine (February 1976).

Smith, Roberta. “Robert Irwin: The Subject is Sight.” Art in America (March 1976).

Wortz, Malinda. “Self Scrutiny and Scrims.” Art News (January 1976).

1975

Baker, A.T. “Manhattan Midwinter: Through the Eddy” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Time, 20 January 1975: 75.

Bass, Sid R. “Newspaper Catalog.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 September 1975.

Davis, Douglas. “The Searcher.” Newsweek, 29 December 1975.

Dreiss, Joseph. “Art Reviews.” Arts Magazine (February 1975).

“Review.” Art in America (March/April 1975).

Rosing, Larry. “Robert Irwin at Pace” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art in America (March–April 1975).

Wortz, Dr. Edward. “Newspaper Catalog.” Forth Worth Star-Telegram, 21 December 1975.

1974

“An Uncompromising Other Way.” Arts (June 1974).

“Irwin at Pace.” Newsweek, December 1974.

Matos, Jose. “Review.” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artforum 12 (February 1974): 78.

Panza, Giusseppe di Biumo. “Environmental Art Museum.” Data, 1974.

Plagens, Peter. “Reviews.” Artforum 12 (February 1974).

“Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Arts Magazine 48 (February 1974): 65.

Russell, John. “Reviews” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, December 1974.

1973

Perreault, John. “Reviews” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Village Voice, 13 December 1973.

Terbell, Melinda. “African Art in Motion.” Art News (March 1973).

1972

Mackintosh, Alistair. “Robert Irwin: An Interview.” Arts and Artists, March 1972.

“Part 1. The State of the Real: Robert Irwin Discusses the Art of An Extended Consciousness.” Arts Magazine (June 1972): 47–9.

“Part II. Reshaping the Shape of Things.” Arts Magazine (September/October 1972).

1971

Baker, Elizabeth C. “Los Angeles, 1971.” Art News (September 1971): 27–39, illustrated.

Drath, Viola. “32nd Corcoran Biennial: Arts as Visual Event.” Art International (May 1971).

“Irwin at Ace.” L.A. Times, November 1971.

“Irwin Sculpture Installed.” (Worthridge) L.A. Times, September 1971.

Kramer, Hilton. “Minneapolis Museum Opens Today.” The New York Times, 18 May 1971: 44.

“Los Angeles.” Art News (September 1971).

Seigel, Jeanne. “Reviews and Previews.” Art News (Summer 1971).

Seldis, Henry J. “4 Artists in space exploration at U.C.L.A.” L.A. Times, January 1971.

Wilson, William. “A&T Catalog paints a picture of struggle.” L.A. Times, 8 August 1971.

1970

Compton, Michael. “UK Commentary.” Studio International (June 1970).

“Los Angeles.” Arts Magazine (November 1970).

“Robert Irwin: An Artist's Premises.” Artforum (December 1970).

Rose, Barbara. “Artist's buddy, give money, and total love.” Vogue (February 1970): 179, 221.

Russel, David. “London.” Arts Magazine (Summer 1970).

1969 

Ashton, Dore. “New York Letter.” Studio International (December 1969).

Gruen, John. “Art in New York: Logic and Magic—Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). New York, 27 October 1969: 70.

S.A.K. “Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art News (November 1969).

Krauss, Rosalind. “New York” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artforum (December 1969).

Ratcliff, Carter. “New York Letter” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art International (December 1969).

Seldis, Henry J. “Top Museum Acquisitions: Span Styles, Centuries.” Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1969.

Stiles, Knute. “Untitled '68: The San Francisco Annual Becomes an Invitational.” Artforum (January 1969).

Wilson, William. “California artists exploring inner space.” L.A. Times, May 1969.

1968

Baker, Elizabeth C. “Reviews and Previews” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Art News (May 1968).

“Exhibition in Pasadena.” Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1968.

Feldman, Anita. “In the Museums.” Arts Magazine (May 1968).

Frankenstein, Alfred. “Discs, Burts, Strips” (Jewish Museum exhibition review). San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, March 1968.

Glueck, Grace. “Mr. Cool.” The New York Times, March 1968.

Kramer, Hilton. “The Jewish Museum.” The New York Times, March 1968.

“Light on Light.” Time, 10 May 1968.

Malcolmson, Harry. “Review.” Toronto Daily Star, 20 April 1968.

“Place in the Sun.” Time, 30 August 1968: 38–40.

Review. Artforum (March 1968).

Robbins, Corrinne. “The Circle in Orbit.” Art in America (November–December 1968).

“Robert Irwin Exhibition At Pasadena.” Arts (April 1968).

Seldis, Harry J. “Kassel exhibit Mirrors Cultural Ferment.” L.A. Times, July 1968.

Simon, Rita. “Mid-Monthly Review: Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Arts Magazine (May 1968).

Terbell, Milinda. “Robert Irwin.” Arts (April 1968): 55.

“Two Generations in Los Angeles: West Coast Report.” Art in America (January–February 1968).

Wasserman, Emily. “Gene Davis, Robert Irwin, Richard Smith” (Jewish Museum exhibition review). Artforum 6, no. 9 (May 1968): 47-49, illustrated, cover.

Wilson, William. “Pasadena Art Museum.” L.A. Times, January 1968.

1967

Coplans, John. “Art Bloom.” Vogue (November 1967).

Lippard, Lucy R. “The Silent Art.” Art in America (January–February 1967).

Livingston, Jane. “Los Angeles.” Artforum (December 1967).

Kozloff, Max. “New York: Robert Irwin, Pace Gallery” (exhibition review). Artforum (January 1967): 56.

Waldman, Diane. “Reviews and Previews: Robert Irwin [Pace]” (exhibition review). Art News (January 1967): 14.

Wilson, William. “The Explosion That Never Went Boom.” Saturday Review 50 (23 September 1967): 54–56.

1966

Getlin, Frank. “VIII São Paulo Bienal.” The Sunday Star, 30 January 1966.

Hudson, Andrew. “VIII São Paulo Bienal.” Art International (Summer 1966).

Ives, Colta Feller. “Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). Arts Magazine (December 1966): 72.

Kozloff, Max. “VIII São Paulo Bienal.” The Nation, 28 February 1966.

Kramer, Hilton. “VIII São Paulo Bienal.” The New York Times, 29 January 1966.

Kramer, Hilton. “Robert Irwin” (The Pace Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 19 November 1966: 29.

Leider, Phillip. “Robert Irwin/Kennth Price: The Best of the Lackluster.” The New York Times, 7 August 1966.

Lewis, Carolyn. “VIII São Paulo Bienal.” The Washington Post, January 1966.

Lewis, Carolyn. “Seven Lively Artists Move Northward.” The Washington Post, 28 January 1966: B1.

Rose, Barbara. “Los Angeles: The Second City.” Art in America (January/February 1966).

Wilson, William. “Couple of Bogey Men Add Luster to an Art Tradition Robert Irwin–Ken Price.” L.A. County Museum, July 1966.

1965

Irwin, Robert. “Statement of Position on Photographic Reproductions of His Art.” Artforum (June 1965).

“Los Angeles: The Scene.” Art News (March 1965).

Solomon, Alan. “Making Like Competition in L.A.” The New York Times, July 1965.

“The New Abstraction on the West Coast, USA.” Studio International (May 1965).

1964

“Circle of Styles on the West Coast.” Art in America (June 1964).

Fried, Michael. “Seven New Artists.” Art International (Summer 1964).

Lieder, Phillip and Hopkins, Henry T. “A Portfolio of Contemporary Los Angeles Art: Formal Art, The Cool School, Abstract Expressionism.” Artforum (Summer 1964).

“Seven New Artists.” Arts and Architecture (June 1964).

Tillim, Sidney. “Seven New Artists at Janis.” Arts Magazine (Summer 1964).

1963

Bogat, Regina. “Fifty California Artists.” Artforum (January 1963).

van der Marck, Jan. “The Californians.” Art International (May 1963).

1959

“Exhibition at Ferus Gallery.” Art News (Summer 1959).

2024

Cateforis, David. Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024: 363, illustrated.

Duncan, Michael and Sharrissa Iqbal, ed. Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945–1990 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Camille Fremontier-Murphy, Roger Malina, W. Patrick McCray, Matthew Simms, and Jason Weems. New York and Palm Springs, California: DelMonico Books; Palm Springs Art Museum, 2024: 102, 103, 126, 131, illustrated.

Lumen: the art and science of light, 800-1600. Texts by Taha Yasin Arslan, Adam S. Cohen, Seb Falk, Margaret Gaida, Elina Gertsman, Cynthia Hahn, Liz James, Christopher R. Lakey, Bissera V. Pentcheva, G. Gabrielle Starr, and Abbey Stockstill. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024.

2023

Kramer, Sarah, ed. The Art Museum. New York: Phaidon, 2023: 432–433, illustrated.

2022

Aquin, Stéphane, and Anne Reeve, eds. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022: 226, illustrated.

Booth, David; Pesanti, Heather. Paradox Cove. Austin, Texas: David Booth, 2022.

Winer, Laurie, ed. A History for the Future: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1979–2000. Glendale, California: Sam Francis Foundation, 2022: 8–9, 15, 187, illustrated.

2021

Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Los Angelas, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021, illustrated.

Light Upon Light Exhibition 2021 (exhibition catalogue). Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Royal Commission for Riyadh City, 2021: 44–45, 131, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: Light and Space (exhibition booklet). Texts by Jan Fischer, Matthew Simms and Marianne Stockebrand. Berlin: Light Art Space gGmbH, 2021.

Noor Riyadh 2021: The Annual Festival of Light and Art: ‘Under One Sky’ (exhibition catalogue). Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Royal Commission for Riyadh City, 2021: np, illustrated.

2020

Bright Golden Haze (exhibition catalogue). Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 2020: 14, 98-105, illustrated.

2019

Inside the Getty. Edited by William Hackman and Mark Greenberg. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2019: 136–141, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: untitled (dawn to dusk). Texts by Jenny Moore, Matthew Simms, Marianne Stockebrand, et al. Marfa, Texas: The Chinati Foundation, 2019.

2018

Destination Art: 500 Artworks Worth the Trip. New York: Phaidon, 2018: 432, illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin: A mystery to me some of the time.” In Auping, Michael. 40 Years: Just Talking About Art. Fort Worth, Texas and Munich: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2018: 232–233, illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin: At the Edge of a Cliff.” In Auping, Michael. 40 Years: Just Talking About Art. Fort Worth, Texas and Munich: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2018: 296–297, illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin: Lines and Skylights.” In Auping, Michael. 40 Years: Just Talking About Art. Fort Worth, Texas and Munich: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; DelMonico Books·Prestel, 2018: 274–275, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: New “SCULPTURE/CONFIGURATIONS” (exhibition catalogue). Text by Matthew Simms. New York: Pace Gallery, 2018.

Robert Irwin: Projects and Exhibitions 2015–2016. New York: Pace Gallery, 2018.

Robert Irwin: Site Determined (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Matthew Simms, Kimberli Meyer, Sally Yard and Ed Schad. Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, 2018.

Solomon, Alan. The Los Angeles Tapes: Alan Solomon’s Interviews with Kauffman, Bell, Turrell, and Irwin. New York: Circle Books, 2018.

Space Shifters (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Cliff Lauson, Dawna Schuld and Lynn Zelevansky. London: Haywood Gallery, 2018: 90–97, illustrated.

2017

Robert Irwin: Drawings (exhibition brochure). Text by Robert L. Pincus. San Diego: Quint Gallery, 2017.

Collecting on the Edge: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2017: 150, illustrated.

2016

Agee, William C. Modern Art in America. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: 312–5, illustrated.

Blackness in Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Adrienne Edwards. New York: Pace Gallery, 2016: 31, illustrated.

Rivenc, Rachel. “5. Robert Irwin: Stripping Art Down One Material at a Time.” In Made in Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2016: 128–163, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (exhibition catalogue) Edited by Evelyn C. Hankins. Texts by Matthew Simms, Jennifer Winkworth, Robert Irwin, et al. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2016.

Simms, Matthew. Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

2015

Falconer, Morgan. Painting Beyond Pollock. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2015: 140.

Miller, Dana, ed. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Text by Adam D. Weinberg. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015: 191, illustrated.

The Painting of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come (exhibition catalogue). Santa Barbara: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2015: 112. illustrated.

Robert Irwin: Cacophonous (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Jennifer Winkworth. New York: Pace Gallery, 2015.

Robert Irwin. Edited by Marianne Stockbrand. [New York]: Artifex Press, 2015. https://artifexpress.com/catalogues/robert-irwin/description

2014

A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Texts by Gwen Allen, David Cateforis and Evelyn C. Hankins, etc. Stanford, California; New York: The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, 2014: 144–9, illustrated.

Bruno, Giuliana. Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014: 72–3, illustrated.

Cameron, Dan and Fatima Manalili. The Avant-Garde Collection. Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, 2018: 46–47, illustrated.

George, Herbert. The Elements of Sculpture: A Viewer’s Guide. London and New York: Phaidon, 2014: 160, illustrated.

Govan, Michael and Anna Bernardini. Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Villa Panza (exhibition catalogue). Varese, Italy: Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Villa e Collezione Panza, 2014.

Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Galerie Thomas Zander, 2014.

Robert Irwin: Projects & Exhibitions 2012–2013. La Jolla, California: Quint Gallery, 2014.

2013

Atkins, Robert. Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. New York and London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2013: 150, illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin.” Interview with Hossein Amirsadeghi. In Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces. New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc. 2013: 174–177, illustrated.

James Turrell: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Alison de Lima Greene and E.C. Krupp. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013: 29, 120–121, 120, illustrated.

Pasina, Irene. Luce di Interni. Milan: FrancoAngeli s.r.l., 2013: 78, 86–89, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: Double Blind (exhibition catalogue). Vienna: Secession, 2013. (Catalogue)

2012

Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: illustrated.

Extreme Abstraction: Revisited. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: 20, 173 illustrated.

Gielen, Denis. S.F. Art, Science & Fiction. Brussels: Musée des Arts Contmporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles au Grand-Hornu, 2012: illustrated.

Irwin, Robert. “Being and Circumstance: Notes toward a Conditional Art (1985).” In Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. Second edition. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2012: 647–648.

Tiberghien, Gilles A. Land Art. Paris: Dominique Carré éditeur, 2012: 18–19, illustrated.

2011

Dreishpoon, Douglas. The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Text by Holly E. Hughes, Mariann W. Smith and Susana Tejada. Milan: Skira editore spa, 2011: illustrated.

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2011.

Irwin, Robert. Notes Toward A Conditional Art. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

O’Keeffe, Linda. Brilliant: White In Design. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2011: 174, illustrated.

Pacific Standard Time Los Angeles Art 1945–1980 (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011: illustrated.

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface (exhibition catalogue). California: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2011: illustrated.

Stein, Jordan. Endless Column. San Francisco: Glass,house, 2011.

2010

50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated.

Meyer, James, ed. Minimalism. London: Phaidon Press, Inc., 2010: 28, illustrated.

Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970 (exhibition catalogue). New York: David Zwirner, 2010: 18–25, illustrated.

Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). Segovia: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 2010.

2009

Ferus (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kirk Varnedeo. New York: Rizzoli International Publishers, 2009: 78–89, illustrated. First published in 2002 by Gagosian Gallery.

Irwin & Hooper: The Frances and John Bowes Collection. San Francisco: California College of the Arts MA Program in Curatorial Practice, 2009: 40–43, illustrated.

McKenna, Kristine. The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2009.

Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2009: 37.

2008

Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Roni Feinstein. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina, 2008: 8, figure 6, illustrated. [Not in exhibition]

Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 2008: 262–36, illustrated.

Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro/Milan – Turin/Los Angeles, 1956 bis 1969 (exhibition catalogue). Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2008: 265, illustrated.

Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. Action / Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Debra Bricker Balken, Morris Dickstein, Douglas Dreishpoon, Charlotte Eyerman, Mark Godfrey, Caroline A. Jones, Norman L. Kleeblatt and Irving Sandler. New York and New Haven: The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press, 2008: 29.

Macnair, Jennifer, Thomas Frick and Nola Butler, ed. BCAM/LACMA 2008. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008: 9, 11–12, 96–97, 109, 130–131, 133, 138–139, 154, 159, illustrated.

The Margulies Collection. Miami: The Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, 2008: 125, illustrated.

The Panza Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Giuseppe Panza and Evelyn C. Hankins. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2008: 26, 60-63, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hugh M. Davies and the artist. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2008.

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2009: illustrated.

This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1958–1968 (exhibition catalogue). Stockholm: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2009: 92, illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Expanded Edition: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008.

2007

Collection Art Contemporain. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2007: 278, illustrated.

Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2007: 258–259, illustrated.

Dreishpoon, Douglas and David Bonetti. The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light (exhibition catalogue). Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2007: 12, 17, 18, 56, 104, 112, illustrated.

Gielen, Dinis. Atlas of Contemporary Art For Use By Everyone. Hornu, Belgium: Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, 2007: 180; 280, illustrated; 353.

Irwin, Robert. “Robert Irwin from ‘Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Conditional Art.” In Modern Sculpture Read, edited by John Wood, David Hulks and Alex Potts, 381–387. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2007.

Panza, Giuseppe. Giuseppe Panza: Memories of a Collector. Translated by Michael Haggerty. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2007.

Weyland, Jocko. Now I Hate Summer. Los Angeles: Elk, 2007.

2006

Elemental Form (exhibition catalogue). Text by Robert Storr. New York: L & M Arts, 2006: 20, illustrated.

Harper, Glenn and Twylene Moyer, eds. A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980. Hamilton, New Jersey: ISC Press, 2006: 70–75, illustrated.

Invisible Might: Works from 1965–1971 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Nyehaus, 2006.

A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer. Hamilton, New Jersey: ISC Press, 2006: 70–75, illustrated.

Translucence: Southern California Art from the 1960s and 1970s (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum, 2006: [7].

Varnedoe, Kirk. Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock. Washington, D.C.: Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, 2006: illustrated.

2005

Bishop, Claire. Installation Art: A Critical History. London: Tate Publishing, 2005: 56–59, 85.

Extreme Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Text by Claire Schneider. Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2005.

Rose, Barbara. Monocromos: de Malevich al presente. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005.

Seeking Transcendence. Text by John Stringer. Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2005: 11, illustrated.

2004

Cooke, Lynne and Michael Govan. Dia: Beacon. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2004: 156, 158, 160–165, 345, illustrated.

Farquharson, Alex, ed. Brian Wilson an Art Book. London: Four Corners Books, 2004: illustrated.

A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958–1968 (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.

Moorehouse, Paul and Lynne Cooke. Bridget Riley: Paintings and Drawings 1961–2004. London: Ridinghouse, 2004: 105, illustrated

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004: 127, illustrated.

Zelevansky, Lynn. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s–70s (exhibition catalogue). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2004: 123, illustrated.

2003

Imagination: Perception in Art. Edited by Peter Pakesch. Cologne: Walther König, 2003: 128–129, illustrated.

2002

Fabozzi, Paul F. Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and Around American Art Since 1945. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Ferus (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kirk Varnedeo. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002: illustrated.

Weschler, Lawrence. Robert Irwin Getty Garden. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002.

2001

Giorgio Morandi (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Donna de Salvo, Matthew Gale, et al. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, Ltd., 2001.

Glimcher, Mildred, ed. Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace. Essay by Arne Glimcher. Milan: Leaonardo International, 2001.

2000

Venice/Venezia: California Art from The Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum. Essays by Giuseppe Panza di Biumo et al. New York: Guggenheim Museums Publication, 2000.

Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000.

1999

Corzo, Miguel Angel, ed. Mortality Immortality?: The Legacy of 20th-Century Art. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999.

Morris, Robert. Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995: 201, illustrated.

Phillips, Lisa. The American Century Art and Culture 1950–2000. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999.

Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena and Santa Monica, California: Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College; RAM Publication & Distribution, 1999: 53, illustrated.

Robert Irwin: Double Diamond 1997–1998 (exhibition catalogue). Lyon and Milan: Musée d’Art Contemporain; Skira, 1999.

Tobler, Jay, ed. The Art Book. London: Phaidon, 1999.

Torres, Ana Maria and Denis Pelli. Thresholds: Limits of Perception, New York: New York Arts Magazine, 1999.

1998

Causey, Andrew. Sculpture Since 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998: 122.

Robert Irwin: A Selection of Works 1958 to 1970 (exhibition catalogue). New York: PaceWildenstein, 1998.

1997

Archer, Michael. Art Since 1960. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Contemporary Art in Transition: From the Collection of the Ho-Am Art Museum. Seoul, Korea: Ho-Am Art Museum, 1997: 80–81.

1995

Robert Irwin. Essays: “El Espacio de la Perception” by Enrique Juncosa, “En Un Desierto de Sentimiento Puro” by Lawrence Weschler. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1995.

Margo Leavin Gallery: 25 Years. Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery, 1995.

1994

Robert Irwin/ Essays: “A Window Is A Window Is A Window” by Marianne Stockebrand, “Growing Up in the Middle of No Where” by Sabine Müller, “Playing It As It Lays and Keeping It In Play” by Lawrence Weschler. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1994.

Robert Irwin. Essay “Au Milieu de Nulle Part” by Alain Charre. Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, 1994.

1993

Robert Irwin. Essays: “Deep Time” By Sally Yard, “Hands On” by John Hallmark Neff, “Expression, Lines, Dots, Discs, Light” by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolf, “The Architecture of Perception” by Klaus Kertess, “Art in Response” by Arthur C. Danto, “Playing It As It Lays and Keeping It In Play” by Lawrence Weschler. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. (Catalogue)

1992

American Art 1930-1970. Milan: Fabbri Editori, 1992.

Levine, Ed. Site Sculptors and Landscape Architects.... Mineeapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992.

1991

Everett, Sally, ed. Art Theory and Criticism. North Carolina: McFarland & Co., Inc., 1991.

Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, 1991.

1990

Friedman, Martin. Walker Art Center: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection. New York and Minneapolis: Rizzoli International Inc., in conjunction with the Walker Art Center, 1990.

Perceptual Investigations: Light and Space Works in the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.

1987

Feinberg, Jean. Perceiving the Garden: Robert Irwin at Wave Hill. New York: Wave Hill, 1987.

1986

Hunter, Sam, ed. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Abbeville Press, 1986: illustrated.

1985

Irwin, Robert. Being and Circumstance: Notes Toward a Conditional Art. Edited by Lawrence Weschler. San Francisco and New York: Lapis Press in conjunction with the Pace Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1985.

1984

Great American Artists: The Skowhegan Medal Recipients (exhibition catalogue). Text by Calvin Tompkins. New York and Skowhegan, Maine: Alpine Fine Arts Collection; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1984: 82–83, illustrated.

Insights/On Sites: Perspectives On Art In Public Spaces. Edited by Stay Paleologos Harris. Washington DC: Partners for Livable Places, 1984.

Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Judith Tannenbaum. Reading, Pennsylvania: Freedman Gallery, Albright College, 1984: 7, 23, illustrated.

1983

The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940–1980 (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983.

1982

FAF–PFPAFP, Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art in Philadelphia (exhibition catalogue). Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1982.

American Artists on Art: 1940 to 1980. Edited by Johnson, Ellen. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

The Rebounding Surface: A Study of Refections in the Work of Nineteen Contemporary Artists (exhibition catalogue). Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: Bard College Center, 1982.

Weschler, Lawrence. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Berkeley: University of California, 1982.

1981

Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties: The Museum As Site – Sixteen (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

1980

Aspects of the 70’s: Sitework (exhibition catalogue). Text by Judith Hoos Fox. Wellesley, Massachusetts: Wellesley College Museum, 1980.

Contemporary Art from Southern California (exhibition catalogue). Text by Clark V. Poling. Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1980.

Drawing: The Pluralist Decade (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Janet Kardon and John Hallmark Neff. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.

1979

Andre, Buren, Irwin, Nordman: Space as Support (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Mark Rosenthal and Germano Celant. Berkeley: University of California Art Museum, 1979.

California Perceptions: Light and Space. Fullerton, California: California State University, Art Gallery, 1979.

Painting and Environment: An Inevitable Encounter/The Explosion of Color-Light in Space. Texts by Renato Barilli, Francesca Alinovi, and Irwin, Robert. Milan: Commune di Milano, 1979.

1978

Robert Irwin: Matrix 15 (exhibition brochure). Berkeley: University of California Art Museum, 1978.

20th Century American Drawings: 5 Years of Acquisitions. Text by Paul Cummings. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978.

1977

Ambiente/Arte: Dal Futurismo Alla Body Art (exhibition catalogue). Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 1977: 173, 187, 208–209, illustrated.

Less is More: An Exhibition of Minimal Painting (exhibition catalogue). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1977.

Irwin, Robert. Notes Toward a Model. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.

Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.

Weschler, Lawrence. Matrix. Berkeley, California: UCAL, 1977.

Wight, Frederick S. Oral History: Robert Irwin Interview. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1977.

1976

Critical Perspectives in American Art. Amherst, Massachusetts: UMASS Press, 1976.

Haskell, Barbara and Maurice Tuchman. 200 Hundred Years of American Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976.

Hopkins, Henry T. Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1976.

Kardon, Janet. Projects for PCA. Symposium conducted by Marcia Tucker. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: PCA, 1976.

Krauss, Rosalind; Sam Hunter and Marcia Tucker. The Last Time I Saw Ferus. Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976.

La Biennale di Venezia, 1976: Environment, Participation, Cultural Structures, vol. 1 (exhibition catalogue). Venice: Alfieri edizioni d’arte, 1976: 162.

1975

Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). Text by Ira Licht. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1975.

Rose, Barbara. American Art Since 1900. New York: Preager, 1975.

University of California, Irvine, 1965–75 (exhibition catalogue). La Jolla, California: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1975

A View Through (exhibition catalogue). Long Beach, California: Art Galleries, California State University, 1975.

1974

Art Now 74 (exhibition catalogue). Washington D.C.: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1974.

Illuminations and Reflection (exhibition brochure). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, 1974.

Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast. New York: Preager, 1974.

Some Recent American Art (exhibition catalogue). Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1974.

1973

American Art: Third Quarter Century (exhibition catalogue). Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1973.

Art in Space: Some Turning Points (exhibition catalogue). Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973.

Hunter, Sam. American Art of the Twentieth Century. New York: Abrams, 1973.

Works in Spaces: Stephen Antonakos, Ronald Bladen, Sam Gilliam, Robert Irwin, Dorothea Rockburne (exhibition brochure). Text by Suzanne Foley. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973.

1972

Hamilton, Richard, ed. Polaroid Portraits: Vol. 1. Stuttgart, Germany: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1972.

The State of California Painting (exhibition catalogue). New Plymouth, New Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1972.

USA: West Coast (exhibition catalogue). Hamburg, West Germany: Kunstverein, 1972.

1971

Art and Technology: A Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.

Eleven Los Angeles Artists (exhibition catalogue). London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971.

Thirty-second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1971.

Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space. Four Artists: Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman (exhibition catalogue). Interviews of the four artists with Frederick S. Wight. Los Angeles: University of California Art Galleries, 1971.

Works for New Spaces (exhibition catalogue). Mineapolis: Walker Art Center, 1971.

1970

A Decade of California Color (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Pace Gallery, 1970.

Kompas 4: West Coast USA (exhibition catalogue). Eindhoven, The Netherlands: SM Uitgeverij, 1970.

Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler (exhibition catalogue). London: Tate Gallery, 1970.

Looking West 1970 (exhibition catalogue). Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Center, 1970.

Permutations: Light and Color (exhibition catalogue). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1970.

69th American Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

1969

Robert Irwin - Doug Wheeler, 1969 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jane Livingston. Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Center, 1969.

West Coast 1945–1969 (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena, California: Pasadena Art Museum, 1969.

1968

Gene Davis/Robert Irwin/Richard Smith (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Coplans. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1968.

Los Angeles 6 (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Coplans. Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1968.

Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Coplans. Pasadena, California: Pasadena Art Museum, 1968.

6 Artists, 6 Exhibitions (exhibition catalogue). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1968.

Untitled, 1968: A National Invitational Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968.

1966

Robert Irwin / Kenneth Price (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.

1965

Exhibition of the United States of America: VIII Biennial of the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena, California: Pasadena Art Museum, 1965.

Sietz, William C. The Responsive Eye (exhibition catalogue). New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965.

1964

Seven New Artists (exhibition catalogue). New York: Sidney Janis, 1964.

1962

Fifty California Artists (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1962.

1961

Pacific Profile of Young West Coast Painters (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena, California: Pasadena Art Museum, 1961.

1960

Fifty Paintings by Thirty-Seven Artist of the Los Angeles Area (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960.

1959

California Painters and Sculptors, Thirty-Five and Under (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Dickson Art Center, 1959.

Recent Paintings by Robert Irwin (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Ferus Gallery, 1959.