Maja Ruznic

Maja Ruznic (Bosnian-American, b. 1983, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Untitled
Painting
14 × 8 in. (image size)
Unique work

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist, 2011; exhibited Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Art, San Francisco, 2012

Ruznic's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMoMA, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. She was included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Represented by KARMA, New York and Los Angeles.

Ruznic fled the Bosnian War at age nine and settled in San Francisco. Her paintings carry the weight of that displacement — figures dissolve into washes of color, forms emerge and recede like memories surfacing. She paints in thin, translucent layers that build up slowly. The surface glows. One of the most acclaimed painters of her generation.