Maja Ruznic

Maja Ruznic (b. 1983, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a New Mexico-based artist who creates works of blurred figures and dreamlike landscapes. Her work explores memory, loss, and transformation, drawing from experiences of childhood, displacement, and the impact of war, as well as religious traditions, mythology, Slavic paganism, and Shamanic practices. These diverse influences find their expression in her ritualistic process and visual language, which exists between what is real and imagined.

After graduating from the California College of the Arts, Ruznic spent six years working with ink and watercolor in a small studio in San Francisco. During this period, she honed her intuition to create fluid, spontaneous compositions that embrace chance, movement, and uncertainty. She has since expanded her visual language to include oil painting and printmaking.

Ruznic's work is held in major public and private collections, including The Crocker Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the He Art Museum, the Jiménez–Colón Collection, the Portland Art Museum, the Rachofsky Collection, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.