'The Seventh AIM Biennial' Open House Presentation & Conversation With Exhibiting Artist V Yeh
THE SEVENTH AIM BIENNIAL OPEN HOUSE:
PRESENTATION & CONVERSATION
WITH AIM ARTIST V YEH
Saturday, April 18 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM
At The Bronx Museum (In the Gallery)
For Artists • FREE! • Optional RSVP
This presentation & conversation with AIM Artist V Yeh is part of The Seventh AIM Biennial Open House, featuring a variety of activities and ways to engage with artists currently exhibiting work in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection.
Image: Portrait of V Yeh with their work on view in The Seventh AIM Biennial, 《关阴与阳》视是实 / 识示式 / 时使适 / 世十史 (2026), Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
About the Program
Yeh describes his program, titled ‘Image Against Representation’, as follows: “What does seeking ‘representation’ in art mean, and should representation really be our end goal? This lecture and workshop will briefly discuss contemporary theory on figuration, and then delve into applying that theory through the nitty-gritty of actual image-making.”
“Participants are encouraged to bring their own artwork or works in progress for a supportive communal critique and feedback session. Although the lecture will focus on figuration, participants need not be figurative artists.”
“The workshop is intended to be a generative experience for anyone seeking to expand their understanding of image-making as politics or applied theory, or simply seeking an opportunity to meet and workshop ideas with fellow like-minded artists.”
About V Yeh
V Yeh (b. 1996, USA) is an artist whose practice/praxis is in dialogue with science, medicine, and the visual and performance arts. His multimodal work grapples with normativity, scientific and cultural biases, and the material reality of specific bodyminds. Yeh was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and Eugene Leake Award upon graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 2019 with a BA in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities, and holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He received a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum.
About 《关阴与阳》视是实 / 识示式 / 时使适 / 世十史
This piece and its title are a web of visual and verbal puns that consider and complicate gender, cultural heritage, and language. The painting portrays a version of the goddess Guanyin (Guan Shi Yin 观世音), and the artist subtitles the piece with the following four-line poem:
视是实 shì shì shí – Sight is true (seeing is believing) [bearing a visual similarity to Guanyin’s name]
识示式 shí shì shì – Knowledge/understanding reveals form [or knowledge releases form]
时使适 shí shǐ shì – Time makes right (Time informs/instructs fit) [or time changes]
世十史 shì shí shǐ – The world/life completes history [or the world/life/Guanyin crosses/trans-es history]
Through a consideration of how language doubles, shifts, and slips from one meaning to another, Yeh both honors a storied cultural figure and considers how existing beliefs might be transformed into something new.
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