He is recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures.
His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America and Europe, and has received considerable critical interest from art historians, such as Thierry Dufrêne, Robert C.
Morgan, Robert Rosenblum, and Kirk Varnedoe.
Alain Kirili lives and works in Paris and New York.