GROUP EXHIBITION

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 Hedwig Brouckaert 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.

About the AIM Fellowship

Now in its 45th consecutive year, The Bronx Museum’s AIM program has benefited hundreds of New York City artists through professional development and community building. As a career accelerator fellowship coupled with a dedicated exhibition, AIM is singular within the landscape of artist opportunities for the depth and longevity of its investment in participants’ growth. Talented artists are selected for the program on an annual basis through a competitive open-call application process and complete a nine-month curriculum designed to impart the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the art world today.

The Museum further invests in the success of AIM artists through a biennial exhibition—creating the opportunity for participants to showcase their work in an institutional setting.

As part of the team that organized the 2024 and 2025 AIM Fellowships, Patrick Rowe, Director of Education & Public Engagement at The Bronx Museum, and Nell Klugman, former Associate Director of the department, bring deep familiarity with each participating artist’s practice to their roles as co-curators of the exhibition.