Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, September 12, 2025 : Maja Ruznic, a Bosnia and Herzegovina emerging artist (#2364)

Friday, September 12, 2025

Artist of the Day, September 12, 2025 : Maja Ruznic, a Bosnia and Herzegovina emerging artist (#2364)

Maja Ruznic (1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic’s practice is informed by her studies, from Slavic shamanism and alchemy to Jungian psychoanalysis and sacred geometry. Imbued with a discordant beauty, her compositions emerge without a premeditated outcome. Ruznic’s introspective, mystical approach places her into a lineage of visionary painters including Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint. Ruznic lives in Placitas, New Mexico.

Recent solo exhibitions include those held at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2024); Karma (New York, 2024, Los Angeles, 2023); Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (2022); and Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico (2021). Ruznic’s work is held in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Dallas Museum of Art; EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; Jiménez–Colón Collection, Puerto Rico; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Rachofsky House, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Her work was recently on view in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Ruznic’s work is currently on view in the 12th International, Once Within a Time, at SITE SANTA FE, New Mexico.

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Ms. Maja Ruznic

Father Daughter Mother 4, 2021

Son, 2021

Red Green (Prophet), 2021

Re-Birth II (deep Turquoise), 2021

Mother, 2021

Mother and Child (Yellow) 2021

Mother & Father (Purple), 2021

Father Daughter Mother, 2021

Father & Child, 2021

Father (Turquoise) 2021

Father (Rust), 2021

Father (Forest), 2021

Father (Consulting shadows II), 2021

Family, (Red Fire), 2021

Family (stucture) 2021

Daughter, 2021

Daughter, 2021

Daughter (green) 2021

CHild (Yellow), 2021

All the Fathers, 2021

Truth Carrier, 2021-22