Ruth Asawa

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American | 1926 - 2013

Ruth Asawa was an American Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1926. Their work is currently being shown at Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs and will be on exhibit at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art in New York on October 19, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have featured Ruth Asawa's work in the past.Ruth Asawa's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 250 USD to 5,382,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,382,500 USD for Untitled (S.401, Hanging Seven-Lobed, Continuous Interlocking Form, with Spheres within Two Lobes), sold at Christie's New York in 2020. Ruth Asawa has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Artmajeur Magazine in October 2025. The artist died in 2013.

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Untitled (Hanging, Seven-Lobed, Two-Part Continuous Form within a Form with Two Small Spheres) - Ruth Asawa

Untitled (Hanging, Seven-Lobed, Two-Part Continuous Form within a Form with Two Small Spheres) ,1956

By Ruth Asawa

+257%

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Untitled (S.753, Hanging Ten Interlocking Double Trumpets) - Ruth Asawa

Untitled (S.753, Hanging Ten Interlocking Double Trumpets) ,1960

By Ruth Asawa

+75%

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UNTITLED (S.853, HANGING FIVE-LOBED, THREE PART, DISCONTINUOUS SURFACE WITH ASYMMETRICAL AND SYMMETRICAL LOBES) - Ruth Asawa

UNTITLED (S.853, HANGING FIVE-LOBED, THREE PART, DISCONTINUOUS SURFACE WITH ASYMMETRICAL AND SYMMETRICAL LOBES) ,1956

By Ruth Asawa

+6%

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Untitled (Flower ,1979

By Ruth Asawa

+113%

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Petunias ,1984

By Ruth Asawa

+41%

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Untitled S.013 (Hanging Single-Lobed, Five-Layer Continuous Form within a Form - Ruth Asawa

Untitled S.013 (Hanging Single-Lobed, Five-Layer Continuous Form within a Form ,1987

By Ruth Asawa

+28%

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Current Exhibitions

Ruth Asawa. A Retrospective

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

Midtown | New York | USA

19 Oct, 2025 - 07 Feb, 2026

All These Growing Things

Tang Museum

Saratoga Springs | New York | USA

23 Aug, 2025 - 19 Jul, 2026

Archive Room: Ruth Asawa

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Stanford | California | USA

06 Aug, 2025 - 05 Jul, 2026

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Articles

Ruth Asawa鈥檚 Landmark Retrospective Has Landed in New York at the MoMA

My Modern Met 02 Nov, 2025

After its five-month run at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), the first posthumous retrospective of Ruth Asawa鈥檚 work has finally landed in New York at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective @ The Museum of Modern Art, New York

JUXTAPOZ 28 Oct, 2025

鈥淚鈥檓 not so interested in the expression of something. I鈥檓 more interested in what the material can do. So that鈥檚 why I keep exploring,鈥� said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career.

Art Basel Paris 2025 Final Sales Report

ArtLyst 26 Oct, 2025

Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that knows where it stands.

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鈥� ..An influential artist, devoted activist, and tireless advocate for arts education, Asawa is best known for her extensive body of hanging wire sculptures... 鈥�
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David Zwirner, London

鈥� ..Relentlessly experimental across a range of mediums, Asawa also produced numerous drawings and prints that, like her wire sculptures, are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex... 鈥�
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David Zwirner, London

鈥� ..As Asawa鈥檚 works attest, she was an artist who exceled in all mediums... 鈥�
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Norton Simon Museum of Art

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