Robert Irwin studied in Los Angeles at the Otis Art Institute (1948-50), the Jepson Art Institute (1951), and the Chinouard School of Art (1952-54). Since his first solo exhibition, at the Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1957, he has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in North America and abroad. He currently lives and works in San Diego.
Biography
Irwin received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984. In 1993, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, initiated a major retrospective of his work, which subsequently traveled to Paris, Madrid, and Cologne. Among his numerous public projects, the most recent is the monumental garden he designed for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, which opened in 1997.
