ArtistsRuth Asawa
Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa

1926–2013
Norwalk, CA, USA
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None documented
5
Institutional Exhibitions
64
Works in Collection
196
Assets Indexed
16
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Tamarind: Homage to Lithography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Recent Sculpture U.S.A.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Artsy artwork: Dancers (c. 1948)
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Artsy artwork: Screenprint (2025)
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Artsy artwork: Ruth Asawa Unique One-Off Bronze Sculpture (1995)
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Aurora sculpture Asawa
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The Faces of Ruth Asawa, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University 03
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The Faces of Ruth Asawa, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University 07
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Ruth Asawa   Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 94
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Education

Black Mountain College
Visual Arts · 1949
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Visual Arts
Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee
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