American artist Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was best known for creating minimalist sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. He created hundreds of individual works and installations throughout his career, including editioned sculptures, permanent installations, and site-specific works. Below are chronological, though possibly incomplete, lists of light works by Flavin. These lists do not include Flavin's works on paper.
The majority of Flavin's extant light sculptures are listed under the "Works" section. Permanent installations are included on the main list and a separate list of permanent works. Flavin exhibited and published numerous works that were never permanently fabricated or sold in their full edition or at all. For each work listed below, edition sizes and the number of fabricated works are included.
Details about individual works - including medium, dimension, and edition size - are primarily sourced from the public collections which own many of Flavin's works, as well as the catalogue raisonné of Flavin's light sculptures published by the Dia Art Foundation in 2004.
Works These lists include every work Flavin conceptualized and executed during his lifetime, as well as several works conceptualized before his death and executed posthumously at his direction. Every work on this list was fabricated at least once for an exhibition, installation, or other presentation. The number of works fabricated refers to the number of times the work was fabricated permanently and sold, gifted, or transferred to a collector, museum, or other party; works with 0 fabrications were only fabricated during Flavin's life temporarily for one or more exhibitions. Edition sizes refer to the number of editions of a work intended to be fabricated; Flavin often did not complete the number of intended editions and sometimes produced additional versions beyond the numbered edition, or produced works in multiples without an official numbered edition.
Abbreviations: NE = Non-editioned; CR = catalogue raisonné
1960s