Book: Ruhee Maknojia | Ornamental Drift

32 pp., color, offset printed, 8.5 x 5.5 in., saddle-stitch binding, unlimited edition

Published by 839, Los Angeles on the occasion of Ornamental Drift

(February 26 – April 25, 2026)

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Publication © 2026

Ruhee Maknojia and 839

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Ruhee Maknojia (b. 1993, Houston) is a painter, animator, and installation artist based in Houston. Her work explores how literature, philosophy, history, and legal systems undergo fragmentation when transferred across new frameworks. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. She has been an Artist-in-Residence and visiting faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is Dean at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is Arts & Culture Lead for the Ismaili Center, Houston. She has exhibited at institutions and galleries including the Lenfest Center for the Arts (New York), Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles), LeRoy Neiman Center for the Arts (New York), Women & Their Work (Austin), and Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, Asia Society Texas, and Anya Tish Gallery (all Houston). She also runs Sabian Press, an independent publishing project focused on contemporary artist monographs.