05/18/2026
Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., a family-run entity that manages the artist Ruth Asawa’s estate, recently opened a new exhibition space at Minnesota Street Project.
The inaugural exhibition, Ruth Asawa: Untitled, is co-curated by Asawa’s daughters Aiko Cuneo and Addie Lanier, and includes rarely exhibited looped- and tied-wire sculptures for which she is best-known, cast artworks, paperfolds, watercolors, and drawings on paper and copper foil.
The title reflects a defining aspect of Asawa’s practice: except in a few cases, she did not title her work. She was more interested in the creation of it than in naming it. “Black Mountain [College] gave you the right to do anything you wanted to do. And then you put a label on it afterwards.” - Ruth Asawa, 2003
Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. hosts rotating exhibitions of Ruth Asawa’s work, including looped- and tied-wire sculptures, paintings, drawings, cast sculptures, prints, sketchbooks, and community-oriented projects, spanning her six-decade career. Organized by family members, friends, and world-renowned curators, exhibitions will offer the public a rare opportunity to view lesser-known and never-before-seen works, much of which has never been publicly exhibited, alongside work by her friends, including Josef and Anni Albers, Imogen Cunningham, Ray Johnson, and others. We will also host an annual exhibition for students and faculty from the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, continuing Asawa’s legacy as an arts advocate and educator.
