Ruth Asawa Is Having a Massive Museum Moment. How Will Her Market Respond?

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.361, Wall-Mounted Tied-Wire, Open-Center, Four-Branched Form Based on Nature), 1994. Artwork © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner

Megan Fox Kelly spoke with Eileen Kinsella at Artnet News about the increased exhibition of Ruth Asawa’s work and the growing demand among collectors.

For much of her career, Asawa was “peripheral to the mainstream narrative—dismissed as a ‘domestic’ or ‘craft’ artist and working far from New York’s center,” art advisor Megan Fox Kelly said. “We saw increasing prices and increased interest 10 to 15 years ago, but everything shifted when David Zwirner took on her estate in 2017, with carefully curated exhibitions and presentations on a very different platform.” She added that the current touring retrospective has “repositioned her within the postwar canon.”

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