Exhibitions
Irwin first exhibited paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1957. The exhibit was called “Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity.” That same year, he participated in the 57th Annual Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York. That same year, he had his first individual exhibition at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1965, he participated in an exhibition called The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at another called XIII in Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. In 1966, he exhibited both as an individual and with Kenneth Price at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and as an individual exhibitor later at The Pace Gallery in New York. In 1969, Irwin exhibited with Doug Wheeler at the Fort Worth Art Center in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1970, he first exhibited scrim “volumes” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For the next five years, he exhibited individually at the following locations: the Pace Gallery in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Minuzo and Ace Galleries in Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum on the Harvard Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Fort Worth Art Center, and Palomar College in San Marcos, California. He participated in several joint exhibitions: “Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space: Four Artists” at the UCLA Art Gallery in Los Angeles and “Some Recent American Art” at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition for Australia. He also exhibited internationally: “Kompas IV” at Stedelijk Museum in Eindhoven, with other artists, Bell and Wheeler, at the Tate Gallery in London, and Documenta at Kassel in Germany.
In 1993, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles mounted the first comprehensive retrospective of Irwin's career; the exhibition later traveled to the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In 2008, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented another comprehensive retrospective spanning fifty years of Irwin's career.
Irwin has been represented by The Pace Gallery, New York, since 1966.
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