About Rand Maeeni

Rand Maeeni makes paintings, works on paper, and installations. Her work lives between abstraction and figuration, with faces, bodies, and gestures embedded within layered fields of paint and mark-making.

Her method is built and then disturbed. Surfaces are layered, drawn, buried, scratched back, and partly recovered, so that what remains carries the evidence of that process. On paper, the approach is faster, automatic, and often left unrevised. In installation, the mark leaves the surface and becomes object, structure, and repetition.

She was born in Baghdad, grew up between Baghdad and Dubai, and later moved to the United States. She holds a bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah and worked in design and creative direction for over a decade in Dubai and Los Angeles before establishing her full-time studio practice. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.