AIM Convening 2027: Artist Professional Development & Community-Building
THE 2027 AIM CONVENING:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT &
COMMUNITY BUILDING FOR ARTISTS
Organized & Facilitated by The Bronx Museum
2026 AIM Fellowship Cohort
Saturday, February 6, 2027 • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
At The Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse)
For Artists • FREE! • Optional RSVP
The Bronx Museum’s annual AIM Convening is a free professional development and community-building event for artists. It is collaboratively organized and facilitated by the cohort of artists who most recently completed the Museum’s AIM Fellowship—a prestigious year-long career accelerator program for the most talented rising artists based in New York City.
The Convening positions AIM Fellowship alumni as experts in their own right and, through it, they seek to impart to other artists the most valuable knowledge and skills they gleaned from the AIM program on how to sustain and grow a creative practice in the art world today.
The AIM program also fosters community among artists who participate, which is immesurably valuable in many ways, and so the AIM Convening organizers try to provide opportunities for artists to make connections with one another.
More details of the 2027 AIM Convening program will be shared soon.
THE 2026 AIM COHORT
This Convening is collectively organized by The Bronx Museum’s 2026 AIM Fellows: Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, Melika Abikenari, Omar Abreu, Ezra Benus, Daniel Castro, Sean Desiree, Maya Dixon, Lily Hyon, Wen Liu, Melissa Misla, Paulina Moncada, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Lamar Robillard, and Toisha Tucker.
Zakariya Abdul-Qadir
"Zakariya Abdul-Qadir is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work moves between painting, print, and mixed media to explore identity, memory, and the emotional residue of everyday life..."
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Melika Abikenari
"Melika Abikenari is an Iranian-born Brooklyn-based artist who works in an array of mediums, including performance, installation, sculpture, textile, and video. Her practice investigates the enduring and evolving nature of the intergenerational inheritance of memory, matrilineality, and the body in relation to state violence and the forces and consequences of displacement..."
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Omar Abreu
"Omar Abreu (b. 1996) is a New York-born and based interdisciplinary artist whose work honors queer/Caribbean identity through sculpture, video, and performance..."
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Ezra Benus
"Ezra Benus is an artist, educator, and curator raised and based in Brooklyn, whose multi-media practice concerns values of normativity, relationships, and intimacies of power, pain, and pleasure..."
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Daniel Castro
"Daniel Castro (b. 1997, The Bronx, NY) is a mixed-media artist who creates paintings, sculptures, and installations informed by New York City street culture and his Latino heritage..."
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Sean Desiree
"Sean Desiree (they/them) is a self-taught artist and furniture maker, born and raised in The Bronx. They use wood from found pallets, demolished buildings, and discarded scraps to create works informed by the language of geometry and guided by their commitment to highlight stories of resistance..."
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Maya Dixon
"Maya Dixon is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, drawing, performance, and installation. Drawing from her Indo-Afro heritage, Dixon reinterprets cultural symbols to examine Black female autonomy, collective memory, survival, and resilience..."
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Lily Hyon
"Lily Hyon (b.1997, South Korea) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She creates props of bodies and objects as a study of how desire is coded in consumer and material culture..."
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Wen Liu
"Wen Liu was born in Shanghai, China, and is based in NY, USA. Her art is a collection of reactions to the environments and objects encountered to build her sense of security coming from a foreign land..."
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Melissa Misla
"Melissa Misla (she/her) is a queer Nuyorican mixed-media artist based in Queens, New York. Her work explores identity, memory, and belonging within the Puerto Rican diaspora through painting, collage, and immersive installation rooted in the visual language of Latinx homes and New York City apartments..."
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Paulina Moncada
"Paulina Moncada (b. 1998, Antioquia, Colombia) explores time, symbols, and the semiotic landscapes of the Andean mountains. She investigates ecosystems as fields of meaning, maps silent encounters between animals and humans, land and diagrams, ordinary objects and idiosyncratic collections..."
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Kevin Quiles Bonilla
"Kevin Quiles Bonilla (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through photography, performance, and installation, his works explore ideas around power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context..."
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Lamar Robillard
"Lamar Robillard, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1991, is a Haitian American conceptual artist, photographer, and filmmaker. His multidisciplinary work critically examines themes such as truth, indoctrination, spirituality, identity, visibility, resistance, and non-conformity, articulated through both information and material..."
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Toisha Tucker
"Toisha Tucker is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and writer. Their work explores three often-overlapping veins of critique. They use art as a mode of cultural organizing, illuminating social constructions of gender, race, and identity. They posit incisive critiques of contemporary and historical events of Western society. They delve into the anthropomorphic relationship between technology and humans, contemporary dystopia, and human empathy..."
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