Robert Irwin in Los Angeles

Pace is pleased to present Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, an exhibition of work produced by Robert Irwin between 1960 and 1971, at its Los Angeles gallery, marking the first exhibition of Irwin’s work mounted by Pace since the artist’s death in 2023 and his first posthumous presentation in California.

On view from April 5 to June 7, the show will shed light on the most prolific period of Irwin’s career—during which he began moving away from object-based art, setting out to create non-representational works centering on questions of perception—and celebrate his many contributions to the arts in Southern California.

Robert Irwin in Los Angeles is presented on the occasion of Pace’s 65th anniversary year, during which the gallery is mounting exhibitions of work by major 20th century artists—with whom it has maintained decades-long relationships—at its spaces around the world.

A foundational figure in the California Light and Space movement, Irwin was a serial innovator across painting, sculpture, and installation over the course of nearly seven decades, expanding the contours of the canon and continually pushing the limits of what art can be. Through his influential and experimental practice—marked by both scientific and philosophical rigor—he proposed a new kind of art making, which revolved around phenomenology and the subjectivity of the viewer. Through his profound artistic inventions, which used light and space as primary materials, Irwin cultivated a reputation as a visionary figure, defining the vanguard of what is known today as experiential art.