Artworks by Ruth Asawa at Rena Bransten Gallery on artnet

Ruth Asawa

(American, 1926–2013)

Ruth Asawa

Untitled (P.001) - Tied wire tree with six branches, 1995

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Biography

Timeline

1926: Born in Norwalk, CA
1943 - 1946: attended Milwaukee State Teachers College
1946 - 1949: attended Black Mountain College, North Carolina
1974: received Honorary Doctorate, California College of Arts and Crafts
1997: received Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco Art Institute
1998: received Honorary Doctorate, San Francisco State University
received B.F.A. University of Wisconsin (formerly Milwaukee State Teachers College)
2013: died in San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2018: Ruth Asawa Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (solo exhibition)
Collecting On The Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan [catalogue published in 2017]
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Re:construction, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California [organized in collaboration with Lucid Art Foundation]
Somatic Gesture, Minnesota Street Project and Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco [organized by Romer Young Gallery in collaboration with Minnesota Street Project]
2017: Ruth Asawa Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Ruth Asawa, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii [catalogue]
Another Man’s Treasure, Edward Ressle, New York
Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [catalogue]
Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray, David Zwirner, New York
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2016: Ruth Asawa Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley [catalogue]
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [exhibition publication]
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles [catalogue]
2015: Ruth Asawa Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Ruth Asawa: Line by Line, Christie’s, New York [itinerary: Christie’s, Tokyo] [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 19330-1957, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin [catalogue]
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [itinerary: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio] [catalogue]
Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2014: Ruth Asawa Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Home and Away: The Printed Works of Ruth Asawa, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California (solo exhibition)
2012: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, USA
2011: Elements: The Beauty of Chemisty, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2009: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2007 - 2008: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2007: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2005: Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2003: Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Vital Forms, American Art in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
2002: Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA
Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2001: Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, USA
Leading the Way: Visionary Asia American Woman Artists of the Older Generation, Gordon College, Wenham, USA
2000: Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Raumkorper Netze und Andree Gebilde, Kunthsalle, Basel, Switzerland
1999: Art in Stone: Prints from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1960-1970, Norman Simon Museum, Pasadena, USA
1997: The Fabric of Life: 150 years of Northern California Fiber Art History, San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996: Generations--the Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, USA
1995: J.J. Bookings Gallery, San Francisco, USA
With New Eyes, University of Michigan and the San Francisco State University Gallery, Detroit and San Francisco, USA
1993: Asian Roots, Western Soil, Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, USA
Pacific Rim: Japan, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, USA
Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, USA
1989 - 1990: Blueprint for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1988: Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, USA
The Eloquent Object (Sculpture), Phillbrook Museum, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, USA
1987: San Francisco City College Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1986: Two Person Show (Sculpture), Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, USA
1984: Evergreen Galleries, Olympia, USA
1982: Fiberworks, Berkeley, USA
1979: Cedar Street Gallery, Santa Cruz, USA
Cabrillo College, Aptos; Cedar Street Gallery, Santa Cruz, USA (solo)
Santa Cruz County Building, Santa Cruz, USA (solo)
1978: Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, USA (solo)
1973: Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (solo)
Van Doren Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1972: American Women: 20th Century, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, USA
1970: Painters and Sculptors of San Francisco: The Expo 70 Presentation of the San Francisco Art Commission. San Marco Gallery at Dominican College, San Rafael, USA
1969: Recent Drawings: Ruth Asawa, Capper Gallery, San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1967: Made with Paper, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, USA
1966: Contemporary Prints from Northern California, IBM Gallery, New York, USA
1965: Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: San Jose Museum of Art, California
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Oakland Museum of California
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Utah, Utah State University, Logan
: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: William College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
: Fresno Art Museum, California
: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Center and M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California
: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina
: Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
: Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ruth Asawa

(American, 1926–2013)

Ruth Asawa

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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