Robert Irwin (artist) cause of death: What happened to Robert Irwin?

Robert Irwin passed away on October 25, 2023, at the age of 95. According to Pace Gallery, he died from heart failure at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego.

Robert W. Irwin was an American installation artist who explored perception and the conditional in art. He began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the 1960s shifted to installation work.

But from 1975 until his death, Robert W. Irwin also incorporated landscape projects into his practice. Irwin conceived over fifty-five site-specific projects, at institutions including the Getty Center (1992–98), Dia:Beacon (1999–2003), and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2001–16).

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles mounted the first retrospective of Robert W. Irwin’s work in 1993; in 2008, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented another, spanning fifty years of his career.

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.