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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 110 |
| France | 4 |
| Spain | 4 |
| Germany | 4 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, USA |
10 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, USA |
8 |
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The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, USA |
6 |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, USA |
4 |
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
12.9.1928 Born in Long Beach, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 132
Solo shows 31
2012
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| The Substance of Light - Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai |
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| Robert Irwin - Dotting the i's & crossing the t's: part II - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| dotting the i's & crossing the t's: part II - The Pace Gallery - 510 W 25th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Lux - Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT |
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| Dotting the i’s & Crossing the t’s: Part I - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Robert Irwin - Way Out West - Galería Elvira González, Madrid |
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| Way Out West - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Irwin - Way Out West - L&M Arts, Los Angeles, Venice, CA |
2010
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| Robert Irwin, Gypsy Switch, 2010 - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Robert Irwin: Way Out West - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Irwin - Way Out West - Galerie Xippas France, Paris |
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| Works in Progress - Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| Robert Irwin - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
2009
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| Robert Irwin: Slant/Light/Volume - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Robert Irwin: Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting - The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Robert Irwin — Light and Space - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
2007
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| Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
2006
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| Robert Irwin: Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue³ - The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Irwin - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX |
2004
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| Robert Irwin - Column - William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2002
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| Movement \ Memory - Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Robert Irwin - Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon |
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| Robert Irwin - A Selection of Works 1958 to 1970 - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Robert Irwin - Excursus - homage to the Square 3 - Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Robert Irwin, Retroperspektive - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
1993
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| Robert Irwin - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
1978
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| Robert Irwin / MATRIX 15 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1977
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| Robert Irwin - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1974
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| Robert Irwin - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Permanent Collection: Robert Irwin Disc - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
1970
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| Robert Irwin - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 101
2012
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| OC Collects - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, Art from the 1960s - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
2011
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| 46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum - Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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| Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| New Out West - Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Part 1) - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Venice in Venice - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
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| The Parallax View - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| What's New, Pussycat? - Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
2010
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| Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1969 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art - California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA |
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| Abstraction For Everyday Life - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Primary Forms: Featuring Annenberg Foundation Acquisitions - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Vides, Une rétrospective - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Hot Spots - Rio de Janeiro / Milano - Torino / Los Angeles - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2008
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| The Panza Collection and Ways of Seeing: Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Weighing and Wanting - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Southern Exposure - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| MATRIX/REDUX - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Great Gay Photo Show - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
2007
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| The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| A Forest For The Trees - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Drawing Architecture: The L.J. Cella Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| The Eclectic Eye - Pop and Illusion - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO |
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| Light Time and Three Dimensions - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Architectural Drawings and Photographs from the L.J. Cella Collection - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Sculpture Exhibition by Amir Mobed - William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2006
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| Group Show Sculpture from the Sixties - Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Elemental Form - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| A Point of Convergence - Architectural Drawings and Photographs - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Invisible Might - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
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| Los Angeles 1955-1985 The birth of an art capital - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| California Modern - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Southern California Minimalism - - Las Vegas Art Museum - LVAM, Las Vegas, NV (closed, 2009) |
2005
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| The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Southern Exposure - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Location, Location, Location - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Biannual All Artists Show - Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Specific Objects - The Minimalist Influence - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Monocromos - de Malevich al presente - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968 - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Illuminations - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
2003
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| Betrayal/Portrayal - Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Einbildung - Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
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| Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Summer Travels - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Ferus - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Magic of Light - Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
2001
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| Implicit / Explicit - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Cross References: -Celebrating the Stuart Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| About Objects - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Hard Heart, Cold Hands, Sculpture Now - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Percepciones en transformación: La Colección Panza del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao |
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| Venice/Venezia: California Art from the Panza Collection - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Summer Group Exhibition 2000 - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Sinn und Sinnlichkeit - Körper und Geist des Bildes - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Now - The 30th Annual Mfa Graduate Exhibition - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| 9th Lesbian And Gay Photo Annual - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| 10th Anniversary Exhibition - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Contemporary Architect - Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest |
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| 8th Lesbian And Gay Photo Annual - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
1998
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| A Photographer's Tale - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Group Show - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| 7th Lesbian And Gay Photo Annual - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Welcome Back! New & Familiar Selections from the Department of Modern and Conte - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
1997
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| Elusive Paradise - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 6th Lesbian And Gay Photo Annual - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Donald Judd and Artist Friends - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Vulvavision - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Between Light and Shadow: The Work of Robert Irwin and James Turrell - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
1994
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| Classics - Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
1991
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| Immaterial Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1990
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| American Art Since 1950 From The Norton Simon Museum - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
1987
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| Sculpture of the Sixties - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1985
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| American Abstract Painting: 1960-1980 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1984
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| American Sculpture - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1980
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| An Exhibition of Important Contemporary Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1976
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| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1973
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| Works in Spaces - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1972
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| Group Show - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
1971
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| New Works from the Walker - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1970
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| American Painting and Sculpture 69th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1969
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| Robert Irwin & Larry Bell: Sculpture - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1968
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| 6 artists, 6 exhibitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| 6 artists, 6 exhibitions - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1966
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| Robert Irwin, Kenneth Price - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
1965
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| The Responsive Eye - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
China
France
| | Galerie Xippas France, Paris
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Spain
| | Galería Elvira González, Madrid
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USA
| | ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY
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| | The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY
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| | The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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France
| | Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
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USA
| | Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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| | The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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