SAT 05.11.24 1–2:30PM
We Strongly Recommend Making An Appointment by May 6th
The First AIM Convening is a day of professional development activities for artists. As part of the Convening, you are invited to make an appointment for a free one-on-one portfolio review!
The review is designed to help you best present your portfolio for an application to a specific opportunity you are interested in pursuing. Time is limited to approximately ten minutes per-person, so please come prepared with specific questions in mind.
Artists Mickey Aloisio, Roni Aviv, Coral Saucedo Lomelí, and Daniel Shieh will be conducting the reviews. These four artists are part of the cohort of artists who completed The Bronx Museum’s flagship AIM Fellowship program in 2023.
The 2023 AIM Cohort also includes Syd Abady, Walter Cruz, Maya Jeffereis, Dario Mohr, Ami Park, María Elena Pombo*, Jonathan Sanchez Noa*, Misra Walker, & Huidi Xiang*. The Cohort collectively programmed The First AIM Convening, which, in addition to appointments for artwork portfolio reviews, features an artist career talk with Kraig Blue, Abigail Deville, and Bang Geul Han as well as a reception with a free limited-edition publication of resources for artists.
* Artists who currently have work on view at the Museum in Part Two of the exhibition Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial.
ABOUT THE PORTFOLIO REVIEW ARTISTS
Images of artists with their respective artwork on view at The Bronx Museum in Part Two of The Sixth AIM Biennial. Photos by Argenis Apolinario.
Mickey Aloisio
Mickey Aloisio is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Aloisio received his AAS from Suffolk County Community College, BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and MFA from the School of Art at Yale University. He is a recipient of the Eliza Prize, awarded by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Pride Photo Award Open Category First Prize in Amsterdam; and Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship and Critical Practice Research Grant, both awarded by the Yale School of Art, and Aloisio is a recent Café Royal Cultural Foundation visual arts grantee. Aloisio was a 2021-22 Core Fellow at MFA Houston. Aloisio recently had his first solo exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York in January 2024.
Roni Aviv
Roni Aviv is a visual artist and educator. Aviv holds an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University and BFA in photography from Bezalel Academy of Art. Aviv's work combines photography, text, and mark-making to give form to a psychological space of re-processing interpersonal trauma and its aftermaths. Through material exploration, Aviv pokes at the descriptive nature of photography and language, and questions what is seen and what remains hidden. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. Recent exhibitions include Center for Book Arts, Real Art Ways, Longwood Art Gallery, The Jewish Museum, and Indie Gallery. Aviv has recently been published in BOMB, GRANTA, Erev Rav, and Lines Inside by TSA_PDF magazines. Recent residencies include NARS (2021) and Center for Book Arts (2022).
Coral Saucedo Lomelí
Coral Saucedo Lomelí completed her MFA at
Yale University and BFA at ArtCenter College of Design. She has done residencies at Yaddo (New York), The NARS Foundation (New York), RUINA (Oaxaca), The Lighthouse Works (New York), SOMA (Mexico City), and at a construction site in San Borja #928 (Mexico City). She was awarded the Provost Grant and the San Marino Art League Scholarship as well as a Fonca/Conacyt Grant which made possible her studies at Yale University.
Daniel Shieh
Daniel Shieh has exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, LMCC Arts Center, Strada Gallery, National Liberty Museum, Wassaic Project, Franconia Sculpture Park, Josephine Sculpture Park, and I-Park Foundation. He has participated in residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Lighthouse Works, ACRE, Anderson Ranch, Millay Arts, and Fountainhead. His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Interior Design Magazine, the Architect’s Newspaper, Hypebeast, and NPR WHYY.
ABOUT The AIM Fellowship
The AIM program is singular among artist fellowships in conceit, longevity, and impact. The program began in 1980 and has since served more than 1,200 artists. AIM is not a studio fellowship. Instead, it is designed to be a career accelerator for the most promising artists who are based in any of the five boroughs of New York City—including, but not limited to, the Museum’s own borough of The Bronx. The AIM Fellowship is designed to equip artists with the practical knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the art world today.
AIM Fellows—selected for the program through an annual competitive open-call application process—are awarded a nine-month practicum led by a distinguished faculty of experts covering finance, law, media management, and writing, among other subjects vital to maintaining and growing a successful career as an artist. The Fellowship also builds lasting community and support networks amongst artists based in NYC.
Image: AIM Artists exhibiting in Part Two of The Sixth AIM Biennial. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
