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