Merima Smajlovic is a Bosnian-American multidisciplinary artist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Working across painting, mixed media, textiles, and installation, her practice explores memory, identity, displacement, and the vulnerability and uncertainty of human existence.

Through abstraction, Smajlovic investigates the relationship between material and emotion, the physical and the spiritual. Her work embraces imperfection, impermanence, and transformation, finding meaning not only in the finished object but also in its structure, process, and traces of making.

Her recent work, SOMA, extends these investigations into the relationship between body, material, and space. Through soil, textiles, stitching, and gesture, she explores forms of presence that resist direct representation.

At the heart of her practice is a belief that art can move beyond representation, creating new realities and giving presence to what cannot be fully seen, spoken, or recovered.