The Bronx Museum
The 2024 AIM Fellows
Apply Now for the 2025 AIM Fellowship>>
Fourteen artists were selected for the 2024 iteration of The Bronx Museum’s prestigious AIM Fellowship from hundreds of candidates who applied to the competitive open call.
Skip Brea
"My works examine the sadistic entanglements that make up our visual culture, language, and world history. By using a combination of digital illustration and painting tools, I weave, stitch, and mesh together paintings of our past that precede copyright laws with pieces of contemporary information to create a new unified image...."
LEARN MORE>>
Hedwig Brouckaert
"As a teenager, I fantasized about hijacking commercial billboards–erasing their distorted messages of desire and identity– by painting them over. As an artist, advertising, and mass media imagery have been a primary material in my drawings, sculpture, and installation projects..."
LEARN MORE>>
Jordan Cruz
"My interdisciplinary practice honors nostalgia as a radical emotional celebration of diasporic Puerto Rican identity and resistance. Through research and archival examinations of family lore, spiritual practices, and block culture, I create installations using votive wax sculptures to represent tools of cultural endurance..." LEARN MORE>>
Ricki Dwyer
"My practice investigates the poetics of self-construction. From the lens of a transgender experience, my work speaks to untangling a personal inner truth from the collective voices of community and culture. Much of my work plays with the power dynamics of an exterior gaze as it shapes or attempts to define one’s identity..." LEARN MORE>>
Bryan Fernandez
"Bryan Fernandez (b. 2000 New York, NY) is an artist from Washington Heights, New York—whose artistic practice centers around the Visibility of marginalized communities of his Cultural Background. As an Afro-Dominican, he observed his demographic’s lack of authentic representation in white media..." LEARN MORE>>
Diana Guerra
"My work takes the personal archive as a starting point to explore notions of home and a sense of belonging as a Latine immigrant in the United States. Through photography, film, and new media, I focus on the complex duality that shapes our immigrant identities..." LEARN MORE>>
DeepPond Kim
"I use clay to explore the body. Humans are born from dust and return to dust when they die. Clay is the perfect material for creating physical bodies. I like the natural, organic color of clay, which minimizes the need for additional tones..." LEARN MORE>>
Juyon Lee
"In an attempt to materialize such ungraspable things as time and the human relationship to time, my work explores the idea of transience and ephemerality through physical materials. To achieve this process, I arrange functional and nonfunctional objects in absurd relationships..." LEARN MORE>>
Delvin Lugo
"Delvin Lugo’s figurative paintings explore themes of chosen family and home within LGBTQ+ community in the Dominican Republic and NYC diaspora. His narratives capture moments where friends are engaged in simple pleasures like a poetry reading, dancing, a lover’s embrace, sharing a meal." LEARN MORE>>
Jodie Lyn-Kee Chow
"My personal and artistic journey reflects a rich tapestry of cultural, historical, and migratory experiences. The intersection of the African diaspora, European colonialism, and Chinese migration in my origin story provides a unique perspective on identity and heritage..." LEARN MORE>>
lauren mcavoy
"lauren mcavoy is an artist/sculptor coming from New Orleans, Louisiana. They are a collaborator and queer labor organizer with a background in welding/fabrication, blacksmithing, and foundry. Focused on collective connection, they are passionate about non-hierarchical mutual aid, anti-colonial land access/stewardship, and embodied healing practices..." LEARN MORE>>
Laurel Richardson
"My work journeys through thoughts and stories of the past, present, and future. I am charting my family lineage, collective histories, and cultural memory of the African Diaspora while also questioning the visibility, value, and historical representations of bodies of color, particularly Black women. I do this while reflecting on ideas of emergence, power, and resilience..." LEARN MORE>>
Asia Stewart
"I am interested in facilitating moments of sensation, connection, and communication through the visceral and vicarious elements of performance and their afterlives as photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations: all traces of my physical self. Their materiality and texture encourage the simple act of feeling..." LEARN MORE>>
Motohiro Takeda
"In recent years, our relationship with the natural world has been overshadowed by excess, spectacle, and technology. My work resists this tendency in favor of slowing down the speed of contemporary life to a human, tangible scale to re-establish our interconnectedness with the cosmos, our immediate environment, and the time that transcends human existence..." LEARN MORE>>
About the AIM Fellowship
AIM is an annual career accelerator program for the most promising emerging artists based in NYC. Artists accepted into the program are awarded a practicum of expert-led seminars intended to impart the practical knowledge and skills needed to sustain and grow a creative practice in today’s art world. Topics include managing finances, best practices for archiving work, and communications strategies.
The program concludes with a public convening collaboratively planned and facilitated by the outgoing AIM Cohort. With this event, the Fellows seek to share the vital knowledge and skills they’ve gained during the program with the wider creative community of NYC.
In addition, The Bronx Museum seeks to further uplift AIM Fellows with a biennial exhibition showcasing the work of artists who completed the program in the years since the last AIM Biennial. The most recent AIM exhibition was Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial—Part One & Part Two, which featured work by AIM artists from the 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 cohorts.
Since its inception in 1980, The Bronx Museum’s AIM Fellowship has benefited over one thousand artists. Many AIM alumni have gone on to achieve great success including Glenn Ligon, Diana Al-Hadid, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Saya Woolfalk.