The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow
Jill Cohen-Nuñez
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jill Cohen-Nuñez (they/them) creates tumored ancestral and futurist spiritual sites that address themes of memory, syncretism, and disease. Working across sculpture, their practice engages in slow, laborious processes to bridge material and immaterial landscapes—disrupted by colonization and systemic erasure. Using the language of objects, altars, and poetry, their work explores the intersections of myth-making, devotion, and continuity.
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.
