The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow
Jill Cohen-Nuñez
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jill Cohen-Nuñez (they/them) creates tumored ancestral and futurist spiritual sites and objects. They investigate memory, syncretic practices, and disease through wood, ceramics, and stone. Through these physical methods of creating, their work reflects on generational loss of connection to culture and land through migration and assimilation.
Biography
Jill Cohen-Nuñez (b. 1992) is a Dominican-American artist from The Bronx, NY. They are a recipient of The Bronx Museum’s 2025 AIM Fellowship. In 2024, they were named the Devra Freelander Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park and were awarded a New York Community Trust Van Lier fellowship at Wave Hill in 2023.
They have received grants and scholarships from Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Connor Merit Awards, Urban Glass, the Oki Doki Studio, and an NYFA City Artist Corps Grant. Cohen-Nuñez has participated in residencies at Haverford College, The Newark Print Shop, Manhattan Graphics Center, MASS MoCA, Chashama, and Modern Art Foundry.
They have exhibited at the National Sculpture Society, BronxArtSpace, Center for Performance Research, Fordham University, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, The New York Botanical Garden, the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House, and EFA Project Space. They hold a BA in Studio Art from CUNY City College.
