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  • Ruth Asawa Through Line

    Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

    The exhibition presents drawings, collages, watercolors, and sketchbooks alongside stamped prints, paperfolds, and copper-foil works, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice.

  • 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

  • Ruth Asawa: Doing Is Living

    David Zwirner Hong Kong 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong

    The first solo presentation of Asawa’s work in Greater China, the exhibition provides an overview of the artist’s wide-ranging practice, focusing in particular on her affinity for the natural world, which in turn provided a constant source of inspiration in her art.

  • 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 nation’s foremost collections of works on paper. Over the decades, the Grunwald Center’s holdings have expanded through donations and acquisitions, and now comprise more than […]

  • Ruth Asawa: Untitled

    Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Co-curated by Asawa's daughters Aiko Cuneo and Addie Lanier, this inaugural exhibition includes rarely exhibited looped- and tied-wire sculptures for which she is best-known, cast artworks, paperfolds, watercolors, and drawings on paper and copper foil.

    Free