Ruth Asawa – Selected Press
Ruth Asawa on CBS News
‘Wonder and awe: The art of Ruth Asawa’ by Faith Salie
February 2026
Ruth Asawa MoMa Retrospective Reviewed in The New Yorker
'Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective' Reviewed by Julian Lucas
November 2025
Ruth Asawa MoMA Retrospective Reviewed in the Financial Times
‘Ruth Asawa’s astonishing MoMA retrospective draws drama from the everyday’ by Ariella Budick
October 2025
Ruth Asawa MoMA Retrospective Reviewed in the Washington Post
“A large retrospective only scratches the surface of Asawa’s contribution.”–Philip Kennicott
December 2025
Ruth Asawa Retrospective Reviewed in Hyperallergic
‘In the Shadow of Ruth Asawa’ by Lisa Yin Zhang
October 2025
Ruth Asawa MoMA Retrospective Reviewed in The New York Times
“In Asawa’s hands, wire was transformed from an instrument of imprisonment into a lifeline, a route to imaginative freedom.”—Deborah Solomon
November 2025
Ruth Asawa MoMA Retrospective Featured in Artnet
“A stunning amount of work, reflective of Asawa’s seemingly preternatural productivity”—Sarah Cascone
October 2025
Ruth Asawa in San Francisco Chronicle
Ruth Asawa Reviewed by Peter Hartlaub
September 2025
Ruth Asawa in PBS News Hour
Ruth Asawa Feature by Jeffrey Brown
July 2025
Ruth Asawa Featured in The New York Times
Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door by Hilarie M. Sheets
2025
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective in Apollo Magazine
Ruth Asawa: Restrospective Featured in Art Diary
2025
Ruth Asawa in Hyperallergic
Announcement by Isa Farfan
March 2025
Ruth Asawa in Plus Magazine
Interview with Henry Weverka and Jonathan Laib
November 2024
Ruth Asawa: Solid Form Meets Thin Air
The New York Times, review by Nancy Princenthal
2023
Ruth Asawa: The Artist as Gardener - From Seed to Wire to Form
The Plant, feature by Hettie Judah
2021
Becoming Reacquainted With Ruth Asawa, the Groundbreaking Artist Who Integrated Her Work and Life
Vogue feature, by Grace Edquist
2021
High-Wire Artist Ruth Asawa Edges Into the Mainstream
Wall Street Journal, profile by Marilyn Chase
2020
Lacma acquires major works by women through lively Collectors Committee Weekend
The Art Newspaper, article by Jori Finkel
2018
Ruth Asawa's Shadow Play
Frieze, article by Ann Reynolds
2018
How Asian-American Artists Made a Mark on Abstract Expressionism
Hyperallergic, article by Danielle Wu
2018
Re-thinking American Post-War Art
WNYC, review by Deborah Solomon
2017
Ruth Asawa Reshapes Art History
The New Yorker, review by Andrea K. Scott
2017
Ruth Asawa: Tending the Metal Garden
The New York Review of Books, review by Zack Hatfield
2017
Ruth Asawa, a Pioneer of Necessity
Hyperallergic, review by John Yau
2017
Critics' Picks: Ruth Asawa
Artforum, review by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
2017