Born 1983, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lives in Placitas, New Mexico

EDUCATION

2009

MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

2005

BFA, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2025

Karma, Los Angeles, Srklet

2024

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, MUTTER

Karma, New York, The World Doesn’t End

2023

Karma, Los Angeles, Geometry of Exile

2022

Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, Migration of Spirits

Karma, New York, Consulting with Shadows

2021

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico, In the Sliver of the Sun

2020

Hales Gallery, London, Name of the Voice

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, My Noiseless Entourage

2019

Galerie DYS, Brussels, Maja Ruznic and Anya Belyat-Ginuta

2018

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Avet

2017

Duplex100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Phantom Caravan

2016

CES Gallery, Los Angeles, The Wailing Sisters

Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Soil as Witness

2015

GalerieDYS, Brussels, Yellow Throat Ribs

Candyland, Stockholm, Untitled

She Works Flexible, Houston, Maja Ruznic and Luz Maria Sanchez, The Boogeyman Is Here

Eastside International, Los Angeles, Maja Ruznic and Ranee Henderson, Lonely Hunters

2014

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Like Little Miracles They Shimmered

Galerie Born, Berlin, Maja Ruznic and Nina Kluth, Refuge

Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Maja Ruznic and Yevgeniya Mikhailik, Among the Missing

Bustamante Gill Gallery, Los Angeles, Maja Ruznic and Yevgeniya Mikhailik, Tender Remains

2012

Trailer Park Projects, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Messengers

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

SITE SANTA FE 12th International, Once Within a Time, curated by Cecilia Alemani

By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China, 360°: Why We Paint?

2024

70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven

Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (with Aïshti Foundation), Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Day for Night: New American Realism, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori

James Cohan, New York, Mother Lode: Material and Memory

Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland, Dead Can Dance

Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, OVERSERVED, curated by Raffi Kalenderian and Alberto Cuadros

Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Harwood Art Museum of The University of New Mexico, Taos

2023

EMMA–Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland, Dialogues

Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Canned Heat

2022

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, Shadow Tracer: Works on Paper

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, curated by Massimiliano Gioni

Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, New York, Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural in Art

The Valley, Taos, New Mexico, Leave A Light On

Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Milan, Unmatter

Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Postcard from New York – Part III

2021

Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Prato, Italy, Hi Woman!, curated by Francesco Bonami

Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, From Morning Til Night, We Should Never Rely on a Single Thing

2020

Matthew Brown, Los Angeles

James Fuentes, New York, Abstract with Figure

Harper’s Apartment, New York, Yarrow Pickers

Shrine, New York, Good Luck

2019

Gildar Gallery, Denver, A Little Tenderness

Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, Euphoric Flex

LAST Projects, Los Angeles, TBA

2018

DORF, Austin, Figures

Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Per Diem

pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, California, Calico Sunset 

Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico, PARALLAX

Fine Arts Center Galleries, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Proof of Existence: An Exhibit of Work by Contemporary Artists of Bosnian and Balkan Origin

2017

OCHI, Ketchum, Indiana, Does It Make a Sound?

BEERS, London, Tickle Torture

ACME, Los Angeles, By the River

Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, With Liberty and Justice for Some

2016

Maiden LA, Los Angeles, Elysian Passage

Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, Phantom Limb

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, Werewolf

Arc Gallery, San Francisco, Between Worlds

2015

Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Angels With Dirty Faces

Torrance Art Museum, California, Sincerely Yours

Figure One, Champaign, Illinois, Painting is Dead?!

2014

Carmen Wiedenhoeft Gallery, Denver, Boundary//Battle

G-art Galeri, Istanbul, “I” in their Own Words

MASS Gallery, Austin, Exquisite Corpse

2013

Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris

Alter Space, San Francisco, What The Mouth Sees

2012

Alter Space, San Francisco, What’s Left Behind

Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, Active

2011

HANG Art Gallery, San Francisco, Figure 8

Southern Exposure Gallery, Cries of San Francisco

MicroClimate Collective, San Francisco, Perfect Place/No Place: Re-Imagining Utopia

2010

Arc Gallery, San Francisco, Dollhouse

Gallery Heist, San Francisco, Til Death Do Us Part

Root Division, San Francisco, Borders

arttransponder, Berlin, The American Orifice 

Alphonse Berber Gallery, Berkeley, California, Works That Disturb The Moonlight

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 

Dallas Museum of Art 

EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland 

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico 

He Art Museum, Foshan, China 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris 

Portland Art Museum, Oregon 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
Yale University Press/Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Gouaches
Karma, New York

2023

memoryhouse

Tamarind Institute

2022

Consulting with Shadows

Karma, New York

2021

In The Sliver of The Sun

Harwood Museum of Art

Peter Bradley, Thaddeus Mosley, Maja Ruznic, Tabboo!, Xiao Jiang

Karma, New York