2026 AIM Convening: Paths & Practices—AIM Alumni in Conversation Diana Al Hadid, Gyun Hur, & Woomin Kim
Part of The 2026 AIM Convening
Saturday, February 7 • 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Artist Panel: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
At The Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse)
For Artists • FREE! • Optional RSVP
This artist panel titled Paths & Practices: AIM Alumni in Conversation brings together notable AIM Fellowship alumni Diana Al Hadid (AIM 2006), Gyun Hur (AIM 2018), and Woomin Kim (AIM 2022).
These artists, who experienced the AIM program in different decades and are now at different stages in their careers, will engage in an open conversation about navigating the art world. The discussion centers on lived experience and reflection, inviting each artist to share their own perspective.
Conceived as a way to give back to the AIM alumni community, the panel offers a supportive space for dialogue, exchange, and shared learning across generations of artists.
The panel is part of The 2026 AIM Convening—a professional development and community-building event for artists organized and facilitated by the 45th Cohort of AIM Fellows.
Specifically, 2025 AIM Fellows Nazli Efe, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, and Massiel Mafes organized the panel and will moderate the discussion.
Diana Al Hadid (AIM 2006)
Diana Al-Hadid examines the historical frameworks and perspectives that continue to shape discourse on culture and materials today. With a practice spanning sculpture, wall reliefs, and works on paper, the artist weaves together enigmatic narratives that draw inspiration from both ancient and modern civilizations. Al-Hadid’s rich allegorical constructions are born from art historical religious imagery, ancient manuscripts, female archetypes, and folkloric storytelling.
Born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981, Al-Hadid lives and works between upstate New York and Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Art History from Kent State University (2003); an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University (2005); and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2007). Recent commissioned works include a large-scale, site specific sculpture for Princeton University Art Museum, mosaic murals for NYC’s Penn Station, and large-scale sculptures in Madison Square Park, New York, NY. My work can be found in numerous institutional collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Frist Art Museum; and San Jose Museum of Art.
Gyun Hur (AIM 2018)
Gyun Hur is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work delves into themes of grief, memory, and the poetics of diaspora. Born in South Korea, she immigrated to Georgia at the age of 13, an experience that profoundly influences her artistic and pedagogical approaches.
Hur’s practice encompasses installations, performances, drawings, and writings, forming a collection of autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling. Her recent work involves creating teardrop-shaped, hand-blown glass vessels filled with water from local rivers and creeks, symbolizing the fluidity of memory and the resilience of communities. This exploration reflects her deep engagement with the poetics of grief and beauty, as well as her commitment to community involvement in the processes of making and remembering.
She has participated in numerous residencies, including Art Farm at Serenbe (2024), Stove Works (2022), the NARS Foundation Artist Residency Program (2019), and the Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship (2018). Her accolades include the Arnhold Forum Fellowship (2024), the AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship (2021), the inaugural Hudgens Prize (2010), and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2024) for Our mothers, our water, our peace.
Her work has been featured in publications such as BOMB Magazine, WABE/NPR, Hyperallergic, The Cut, Art in America, and Art Asia Pacific.
Hur has presented her work and insights at various platforms, including TEDxCentennialWomen, Living Walls: The City Speaks, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The New School. She has also contributed as an artist-writer to publications like fLoromancy, The Brooklyn Rail, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art.
Currently residing in Brooklyn, Gyun Hur serves as an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
Woomin Kim (AIM 2022)
Woomin Kim is a Korean artist currently based in Queens, NY. In her textile works and sculptures, Kim describes sceneries and memories of everyday life and urban landscapes that feel personal and precious to herself.
Kim’s work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum, Bronx Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum and the Moody Center for the Arts. Kim has participated in residencies at the Queens Museum, Smack Mellon and Art Omi. Kim collaborated with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Noguchi Museum and American Folk Art Museum for various workshops and programing. Her works have been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic and BOMB Magazine. Kim received a B.F.A. from Seoul National University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2025 AIM Fellow Organizers/Facilitators
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..."
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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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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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