"Over the course of six decades, mainly from her small home in San Francisco, she transformed wire and other simple materials into an entire universe of fruiting forms and branching shapes. And nowhere is her persistence and range of vision more apparent than the ambitious retrospective that opens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) this week (19 October-7 February 2026) after its run at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) this spring and summer."
"In New York the show will occupy the 16,000-sq.-ft space on MoMA's sixth floor used for big temporary exhibitions. In San Francisco, it took up 15,000 sq. ft on the fourth floor, combining two galleries usually used for different purposes. The SFMoMA illustrated checklist, with 327 pieces (including some ephemera), spans 81 pages. MoMA's, with 376 objects (thanks to more archival material), is 94 pages."
Ruth Asawa built a six-decade practice transforming wire and simple materials into looped-wire sculptures, bronze casts, paper folds, paintings and drawings inspired by nature. A major retrospective appears at the Museum of Modern Art after a run at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, presenting hundreds of objects and archival material. The MoMA presentation occupies 16,000 sq. ft; SFMoMA used about 15,000 sq. ft. SFMoMA's illustrated checklist lists 327 pieces over 81 pages, while MoMA's checklist documents 376 objects across 94 pages. The exhibition ranks as the largest show devoted to a woman artist at both museums.
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