Rand Maeeni

(b. Baghdad; based in San Francisco)

Artist Statement

My practice centers the body as a site of identity; not as a fixed object, but as an adaptive system. Using layered abstraction, painterly residue, and subconscious mark–making, I investigate how attachment shapes who we become at the cellular, somatic level.

These works ask a simple but radical question:

What if everything we call “self” is simply the scar tissue of adaptation, and what forms emerge when those inherited layers begin to loosen?

Bio

Maeeni was born in Baghdad and raised in Dubai, and now lives and works in San Francisco. She holds a BFA in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah. After more than a decade leading creative direction, she maintains a full-time painting practice developing bodies of work for galleries, collectors, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.