Ruhee Maknojia

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Ruhee Maknojia is an artist whose practice examines the bureaucratic, legal, and institutional systems that govern how objects are valued, preserved, and understood. Through painting, installation, and conceptual interventions, she navigates the complexities and contradictions of these systems, treating their rules, procedures, and limitations as material for artistic experimentation. Her work translates dense administrative structures into gestures that reveal unexpected possibilities within the very systems that seek to define and regulate them.

Maknojia is an artist who received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. In spring 2024, she served as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she taught advanced painting and graduate seminars. She was appointed Dean at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2025 and Arts and Culture Lead at the Ismaili Center in 2026. Maknojia’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries, including 839 Gallery and Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles; the Lenfest Center for the Arts and the LeRoy Neiman Center for the Arts in New York City; and the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Asia Society Texas, and Anya Tish Gallery in Houston.