Who are the artists like Robert Irwin? What type of artist is Robert Irwin?

Robert Irwin was an American installation artist known for his association with the Light and Space movement, a variety of West Coast Minimalist art that was concerned with the visual impact of light on geometric forms and on the viewer’s sensory experience of the work.

Robert Irwin’s early works often employed light and veils of scrim to transform gallery and museum spaces. From 1975 until his death, he also incorporated landscape projects into his practice.

Artists like James Turrell, Eric Orr, Mary Corse, and Doug Wheeler are considered similar to Robert Irwin as they also worked by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or through playing with light with the use of transparent, translucent, or reflective materials.

Between the years 1957 and 1958, Robert W. Irwin taught at the Chouinard Art Institute. Robert W. Irwin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976, a MacArthur Fellowship in March 1984, and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007.