Ruth Ige features in Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, the 36th São Paulo Biennale, conceptualised by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. This edition is 'founded on listening to humanity as a practice of constant displacement, encounter, and negotiation'.

In recognition of her 'innovative contributions to contemporary painting', Ruth Ige has been awarded the 2025 Rydal Art Prize. The prize is presented by the seeds trust and Te Uru Contemporary Art Gallery, where she present a solo exhibition in 2026.

Ruth Ige presents The poetic notions of blue: A haven, a solo exhibition at McLeavy Gallery. This body of work, 'challeng[es] western ideas and systems of painting. Showing reverence and irreverence for the art form by bringing in materials not associated with conventional western painting mediums'.

Ruth Ige features in Aotearoa Contemporary at the Auckland Art Gallery. Set to occur every three years, the group exhibition functions as a survey for what is new and significant in the region's cultural environment. 

Ruth Ige features in Eighteen Painters, a group exhibition taking place across both Andrew Kreps' spaces in New York. Through works created by painters born after 1980, the show explores the medium's 'continued vitality as a tool for research and exploration'.