Maja Ruznic (born 1983)[1] is a Bosnian-born American painter, whose painting practice fuses abstraction and figuration.
Her practice is informed by her own experiences of the Bosnian War as well as Slavic folklore, shamanism, Jungian psychoanalysis, and the concepts related to sacred geometry.
[1] Between 1992 and 1995, Ruznic and her family moved between several refugee camps before finally settling in San Francisco.
[3] Ruznic's work as a painter is influenced by her memories of the Bosnian conflict, a passion for documenting personal narratives, and interests in Jungian psychoanalysis, mythology, and the esoteric, particularly in reference to Slavic folklore and shamanism, as well as sacred geometry.
[4] Ruznic's visual vocabulary blends figuration with abstraction, adopting a style that loosely aligns with Surrealist traditions.