The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship Cohort 2025
Overview
The Bronx Museum selected fourteen of the most promising artists in New York City for the 2025 AIM Fellowship through a competitive open call application process that received hundreds of submissions. Founded in 1980, the Museum’s AIM Fellowship is designed to give artists the practical knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the art world. The 2025 AIM Fellows are: Katie Chin, Noga Cohen, Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Rocío Delaloye, Nazli Efe, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, Leekyung Kang, kiarita, Sangmin Lee, Massiel Mafes, Piero Penizzotto, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, Cyle Warner, and V Yeh.
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Katie Chin
"Katie Chin’s (she/her) work is anchored in sculpture and installation. Exploring the alienation and precarity endemic to late-stage capitalism, her practice often uses ceramic and metal to disrupt and corrode hierarchical systems of worth and value..."
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Noga Cohen
"Noga Cohen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the ways the human body and natural ecosystems bear the imprints of trauma. Through sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video, she examines cycles of decay and transformation, revealing the blurred boundaries between the body and natural world..."
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Jill Cohen-Nuñez
"Jill Cohen-Nuñez (they/them) creates tumored ancestral and futurist spiritual sites and objects. They investigate memory, syncretic practices, and disease through wood, ceramics, and stone..."
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Rocío Delaloye
"Rocío Delaloye (she/her) explores how technology reshapes identity, connection, and presence in a rapidly evolving digital world. Through video, live simulations, and multimedia installations, she constructs speculative environments that challenge fixed ideas of self and reality..."
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Nazli Efe
"Being half Turkish, a country surrounded by Water on three sides, and half Cypriot; an island in the Mediterranean Sea, Nazli Efe (she/her) grew up constantly interacting with Water. Water is a ritualistic, meditative, and performative medium through which Efe accesses her unconscious mind..."
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Erick Alejandro Hernandez
"Taking root in highly temporal narrative settings like the death of a loved one, the length of a subway commute, the confines of a waiting room, or the impact of a car crash, Erick Alejandro Hernandez’s (he/him) practice explores how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories..."
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Leekyung Kang
"Inspired by Buddhist cosmology’s cyclical nature, Leekyung Kang (she/her) delves into spatial understandings and recursive patterns where worlds intertwine and circulate endlessly. Her recent residency at the Sanford Underground Research Facility involved collaborating with physicists to explore “dark matter” and hidden realms on Earth, contextualized within the framework of Asian culture..."
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kiarita
"kiarita (they/them) employs found furniture to eternalize intimate moments of their chosen family’s rest and respite. Oil paintings of their loved ones sleeping are often hidden in drawers or behind cabinet doors, asking the intimacy of touch from the viewer for its painted intimacy to be revealed..."
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Sangmin Lee
"Sangmin Lee (he/they) reimagines personal and historical narratives through memories’ paradoxical potential to become object. Using various material processes, Lee creates objects that iteratively extend from the slippery ends of their own meaning—becoming a lineage of objects that gradually lose resemblance to one another..."
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Massiel Mafes
"Massiel Mafes (she/her) delves into her heritage and identity to explore allegory and narrative. She meticulously constructs fabric installations predominantly made of sewn pieces of her family’s second-hand clothes, which serves as a metaphor for her connection to her Cuban roots..."
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Piero Penizzotto
"Piero Penizzotto’s (he/him) artistic expression takes shape through life-sized painted papier-mâché sculptures that reflect his Peruvian-American heritage. These pieces serve as visual narratives, exploring the complexities of Penizzotto’s cultural background and scenes of daily life he experienced in South Florida, New York, and Peru..."
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Jennifer Teresa Villanueva
"Jennifer Teresa Villanueva (she/her) is an artist, writer, and daughter of Mexican immigrant factory workers whose work bridges the personal and political realities of immigrant life in the United States. Through documentary photography, screenprints, and family archives, she captures intimate and vulnerable moments within her family’s daily life..."
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Cyle Warner
"Cyle Warner (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with space, place, time, and distance in relation to the past and how we choose to move forward outside of contemporary values, an idea he refers to as “Dis.” Working across fiber, photography, and sculpture, Warner creates compositions that consider notions of home, care, and the creation and preservation of new myths..."
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V Yeh
"V Yeh (he/him) makes conceptual, often satirical, work to interrogate normativity and cultural and scientific biases. Sometimes this takes the form of a life-sized figurative painting, other times a sutured sculpture, or even a math test. These multiple entryways into the work provide access to different viewers and point to how interconnected these issues are..."
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