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  • The Faces Of Ruth Asawa

    Cantor Arts Center 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, United States

    From the mid-1960s through 2000, Asawa created hundreds of individual face masks out of clay. With the Cantor's Asian American Art Initiative, this wall of 233 masks becomes a permanent part of their collection.

    Free

  • Installation: Ruth Asawa: Untitled (S.272)

    Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    This second installation in the Fang Family Launchpad is a masterful example of the suspended, abstract works of looped wire for which Asawa is best known.

    $20

  • Collection 2: Undo, Redo

    National Museum Of Art Osaka 4-2-55 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan

    The Collection 2 exhibition focuses on the way artists undo and redo existing materials, structures, and history along with the state of their works. As a starting point, we look at pieces by Louise Bourgeois and Leonor Antunes that were acquired by the museum in 2023, and a work by Ruth Asawa that was acquired in 2024 and is being shown here for the first time in Japan.

    ¥250

  • Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

    SF MOMA 151 Third St, San Francisco, CA

    Ruth Asawa: Retrospective presents the full range of the artist’s groundbreaking practice, offering an in-depth look at her expansive output and its inspirations through more than 300 artworks.

  • Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

    MoMA 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States

    An in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction. The exhibition’s final presentation will include numerous works not seen at earlier venues.

    $30

  • Printing Color: Chiaroscuro to Screenprint

    Legion Of Honor 100 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, United States

    Color has challenged and fascinated printmakers since the Renaissance. This exhibition explores technological and artistic revolutions in color printmaking from the 16th century through today.

  • Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

    MoMA 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, United States

    “I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,”

    $30

  • Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

    Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Since its establishment in 1956 with a gift of prints from Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald, the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts has evolved into one of the […]

  • Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

    Guggenheim Bilbao Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain

    While the appreciation of Asawa’s work has grown exponentially in the last decade, this retrospective is the first major museum exhibition to fully consider every aspect of the artist’s exquisite, varied, and groundbreaking practice.

    €15

  • Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

    Foundation Beyeler Baselstrasse 101, 4125, Riehen

    The first European retrospective dedicated to Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), the influential American artist of Japanese descent, offers an extraordinary opportunity to experience the ways in which Asawa transformed the simplest of materials into fascinating object, blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, art and craft, action and contemplation.

    CHF25