Join the Bronx Museum of the Arts at the Exhibition Opening Party for The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection this Friday, January 23, 2026. Celebrate with us from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., and be the first to see this remarkable exhibition, plus meet the exhibiting artists, vibe to music by Uptown Vinyl Supreme, and enjoy light refreshments.
The Exhibition
How can we foster connection and belonging within the museum space? This exhibition, in its seventh iteration, showcases artwork from the most recent two cohorts of the Bronx Museum’s AIM Fellowship program. Within the program, these 28 artists developed structures of connection and community; presented together, their artworks here begin a conversation that invites and extends further communal experience.
Now in its 45th year, AIM is an intensive year-long seminar program in which artists learn skills to help them develop and sustain their careers. In addition to building specific, practical knowledge, the AIM program also fosters and supports the formation of a community of artists.
The Seventh AIM Biennial is organized in three fluid and overlapping sections. The artworks in this show explore connection and disconnection: to one’s heritage, invoking memory, time, culture, and geography; to society and its norms, practices, and structures, through social and institutional critique; and to other individuals or groups, expressed through ideas of identity, intimacy, and distance. Both individually and seen together, these works map intersections and oppositions, isolation and belonging.
Further, this exhibition considers and demonstrates how the Bronx Museum, site of both the AIM Fellowship itself and this group exhibition of its participants’ work, does and can continue to function as a connective site where communities can form and belonging can be fostered.
Exhibiting Artists
Skip Brea, Hedwig Brouckaert, Katie Chin, Noga Cohen, Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Jordan Cruz, Rocío Delaloye, Ricki Dwyer, Nazli Efe, Bryan Fernandez, Diana Guerra, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, Leekyung Kang, kiarita, DeepPond Kim, Juyon Lee, Sangmin Lee, Delvin Lugo, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Massiel Mafes, lauren mcavoy, Piero Penizzotto, Laurel Richardson, Asia Stewart, Motohiro Takeda, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, Cyle Warner, & V Yeh.
Featured image: Piero Penizzotto (2025 AIM Fellow), Kings of Comedy (Chris, Imani, Bernard, Calvin, D’re), 2024.
About the Bronx Museum of the Arts
For over five decades, the Bronx Museum of the Arts (the Bronx Museum) has been a vanguard of cultural diversity and accessibility in the contemporary art world. The Museum offers 100% free admission for everyone to all its exhibitions and programs, providing a vital creative outlet to the public. Through its curatorial practices, including a permanent collection, the Museum seeks to champion and promote artists who have been systemically and historically marginalized. The history and culture of the Bronx are a never-ending source of inspiration for the Museum, and its programs are designed to facilitate meaningful engagement with the people of the borough while also attracting visitors from all over New York City and the world. The Bronx Museum is a leader in the cultural sphere with its unwavering commitment to access, dedication to platforming underrepresented artists, and dynamic community-engaged programming.
Location:
Bronx Museum Of The Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10456
Tel.: 718-681-6000
E–mail: info@bronxmuseum.org
