Delaney has rarely shown his work in exhibitions and has mostly done commissioned pieces.  His distinctive kinetic sculptures are in private collections around the country, particularly in California, with pieces in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Palm Springs.  In a fall 2001 feature depicting artist Rex Ray’s San Francisco loft that appeared in Metropolitan Home, a Delaney mobile is pictured and discussed.  Delaney’s first important exhibition was at the prestigious Ron Judish Fine Arts in the summer of 2002 and it was reviewed in both the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. 

In 2004 Delaney executed his first monumental suspension sculpture, “Silver Cloud”, a thirty-eight foot tall aluminum sculpture hung in the downtown Denver offices of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck.  A model of “Silver Cloud” is in the permanent collection of Denver’s Kirkland Museum.

In 2005, Delaney carried out “Red Pheasant” a nearly thirty foot tall aerial sculpture for the atrium of the New Frontier Bank in Greeley, designed by David Tryba Architects.  Also in 2005, Delaney created “Il Rosso Grande”, a major sculpture for the ballroom lobby of the Denver Grand Hyatt Colorado Convention Center Hotel by klipp.  “Il Rosso Grande” has been pictured and discussed in the October, 2006 issue of Southwest Art and in the July, 2007 issue of Art & Auction  

In 2006, Delaney completed “Giddy-Up”, a stabile, which was erected on the roof of Denver’s Zeitgeist Gallery.   “Giddy-Up” was discussed in the Rocky Mountain News.

In 2007, Delaney created a suspension sculpture “Luna“ for the Garth residence in Beaumont, Texas, and extended “Silver Cloud” the height of an entire floor as a result of the expansion of the Brownstein firm.

In 2008, Delaney created a sculpture “Point” for the lobby of Monroe Point in Denver, a luxury residential complex; and he was the subject of an exhibit at Walker Fine Art in the spring of 2008, and it was reviewed in the Rocky Mountain News.  Also in 2008, Delaney created a mobile “Forward” for the Jewish Family Services Building in memory of Joan Sapiro.  Later that same year, Delaney created “Circle Beats the Square” a monumental Plexiglas and aluminum suspension sculpture for Buckingham Properties in Indianapolis.  A piece by Delaney, “Deer” was published in the fall 2008 issue of the magazine American Contemporary Art. 

Delaney’s work was exhibited twice at Denver’s Gallery T in 2009.  He was part of Gallery T’s first exhibit of gallery artists in a show with Emmett Culligan and Jeff Wenzel; a show celebrating the publication of Colorado Abstract Paintings and Sculpture.  Later that year he paired with Patrick Marold for the exhibit “SideBeSide”; both exhibits were reviewed by Westword and the Denver Post.

Four pieces of his work are included in the ground-breaking and lavishly illustrated book, Colorado Abstract Paintings and Sculpture written by Michael Paglia and Mary Voelz Chandler that was published by New Mexico’s Fresco Fine Art Publications in January, 2009.  In association with the publication of Colorado Abstract, Delaney’s work was included in the accompanying show that was also called “Colorado/Abstract” presented at Denver’s Center for Visual Art.  Simultaneously his pieces were also featured in an exhibit at T Gallery.  

Delaney’s work has been featured at David Floria Gallery, Aspen and T Gallery, Denver.  

Delaney’s sculptures are—“…delicately balanced and graced with highlights of color…”

Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News

“…colorful variations of interconnected constructions of wire and curvilinear fins…”

Kyle MacMillan, The Denver Post

“If you enter a Colorado building and encounter a striking large-scale suspended kinetic sculpture, most likely you are in the presence of a work by Robert Delaney.  These aerial flights of beauty are the result of a lifelong interest in making sculptural work that moves, and that at heart carries the sensibility of a particular object interpreted through abstraction into a conflation of planes and volumes.”

Excerpted from the book Colorado Abstract/Paintings and Sculpture written by Michael Paglia and Mary Chandler (Fresco Fine Art Publications)