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Please join us at the Bronx Museum (@bronxmuseum) on Saturday for a panel discussion with artists Katie Chin (@katie.chin.and), Erick Alejandro Hernandez (@erickhe), and Cyle Warner (@cylewarner), moderated by art critic and author Louis Bury (@lbury1). The panel features artists from the most recent AIM Fellowship who are currently exhibiting work in The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection.

The panel discussion is from 3:30 - 5:00 PM and is part of a series of events occurring on August 29th including art-making and other workshops.

Learn more about the open house here: https://bronxmuseum.org/event/aim-biennial7-culminating/ taken in Bronx Museum of the Arts by @erickhe

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The DAG Foundation is honored to celebrate Erick Alejandro Hernández, recipient of the $20,000 DAG Prize for Visual Art. Erick received the award for his project, which he describes as an exploration of the topographies of symbolic space.

Today, we are pleased to share an earlier work that offers a glimpse into Erick’s artistic practice:

Flores (for Lia)
60 x 48 inches
2023
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

We are proud to celebrate Erick and his outstanding achievement.
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#DAGFoundation #DAGPrize #ArtsGrants #VisualArt #SupportTheArts by @erickhe

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(Flagellation), 2026, 70 x 126 inches, Acrylic, Charcoal, and Graphite on Canvas by @erickhe

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Erick Alejandro Hernández (@erickhe Brooklyn, NY) developed a series of paintings conceived in direct response to the third-floor studio, constructing compositions that extend and contract across the room. He made several life-size rubbings of the studio windows, using their imprint to define the space for some of the works. Continuing an ongoing investigation into symbolic topographies—an underground, middle ground, and sense of an “above”—the paintings register a sustained tension between presence and erasure, reflecting the convergence of layered histories and the charged calm of a place shaped by what once passed through it.

Erick is a painter whose practice examines how traditional techniques—painting, drawing, and collage—can be reconfigured to hold complex individual and collective histories. Working rhythmically across varying scales and modes of application, he builds work through brushing, staining, sealing, and gluing large surfaces. Often referencing psychoanalysis, literature, history, and personal experiences, the figures that populate his paintings allegorically explore forms of grief, memory, exile, and mourning. Born in Matanzas, Cuba he received his BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He has been a fellow at Skowhegan, Yaddo, MacDowell, MASS MoCA, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and The Bronx Museum, among others. erickalejandrohernandez.com

photography @treytreyburns by @erickhe

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Opening tomorrow! Friday January 23rd, 6-8pm @bronxmuseum

The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection at The Bronx Museum.

So thankful to show with this group, and to Nell, Patrick, and The Bronx Museum for making this possible.

1: Ventana; Nadie puede asegurarnos que han puesto los nombres ciertos a los lugares donde hemos vivido (detail), 2025, Acrylic, graphite, and charcoal on Canvas, 65 x 85 inches
2: Exhibiting artists

Full list of artists:

Skip Brea @skipbrea
Hedwig Brouckaert @hedwig_brouckaert
Katie Chin @katie.chin.and
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart
Noga Cohen @nogie_
Jordan Cruz @jordancorinec
Rocio Delaloye @rociodelaloye
Ricki Dwyer @ricki.dwyer
Nazli Efe @nazliefee
Bryan Fernandez @bryanfernandez.studio
Diana Guerra @_dianahola_
Erick Alejandro Hernández @erickhe
Leekyung Kang @kleeeek
kiarita @sacralrise
DeepPond Kim @deeppondkim
Juyon Lee @juyon_
Sangmin Lee @sangminl
Delvin Lugo @delvinlugo
Massiel Mafes @massielmafes
lauren mcavoy #laurenmcavoy
Jill Cohen-Nuñez @jillcohennunez
Piero Penizzotto @piero.penizzotto
Laurel Richardson @laurelarichardson
Asia Stewart @asiastewart
Motohiro Takeda @motohirotakeda
Jennifer Teresa Villanueva @jennifer__teresa
Cyle Warner @cylewarner
V Yeh @v.w.yeh

Curated by @patrickdrowe @nellsullivan taken in Bronx Museum of the Arts by @erickhe

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Barren Pines; Para Olvidar Cuan Cerca Estamos del Cielo, Oil on Canvas, 2025, 60 x 72 inches by @erickhe

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Hi, I’m Erick Alejandro Hernandez (@erickhe), a 2025 AIM Fellow at @bronxmuseum!

My work is driven by an ongoing investigation of grief as it pertains to bodily loss, exile, and migration. I am invested in using painting as a malleable medium to depict complex individual and collective histories, focusing on narratives that are unfixed. Often, I use collage processes to patch pieces of canvas into mural-scale figural works that generate a space where the fugitive and temporal nature of these subjects can be located.

I am grateful to be part of the AIM community and to participate in a program that provides practical tools for navigating the complexities of being an artist. The program creates a generous platform for weekly group informational sessions focused on things like grant writing, developing public projects, filing taxes, and strategies for interacting with different kinds of art institutions.

I look forward to celebrating my time as a Fellow by showing work at The Seventh AIM Biennial, which opens at @bronxmuseum on January 23, 2026. My Fellowship cohort is also planning the next AIM Convening—a free professional development event for artists at the Museum on February 7, 2026. Click the link in @bronxmuseum’s for more info about the 2026 AIM Biennial and Convening 🔗

Pictured:

1. ‘Smoke Piece’, 2022, Acrylic, Ball-point, Marker, and PH Neutral Adhesive on Canvas, 420 x 360 inches at Yale University

2 – 3. Installation. ‘Facing a Forward Wind’, 2025 @Dimin.nyc

4. ‘Purple Room’, 2023, Oil, Charcoal, and Acrylic on Canvas, 78 x 108 inches

5. Detail. ‘Her body dissolved and filled the room; the humid air was afraid to die’, 2023, Acrylic, Graphite, Marker, and Ballpoint on Canvas, 51 x 63 inches

6. ‘Flores (for Lia)’, 2023, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 48 inches

7. 2025 AIM Fellows at @bronxmuseum’s Gala

#BronxMuseum #ErickAlejandroHernandez #AIMfellowship #AIMbiennial #AIMconvening taken in Bronx Museum of the Arts by @erickhe

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credulity/void, oil and acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches, 2023

A little late but…thinking about paradigm shifts, porosity, precariousness…contending with the inevitable promise of alienation that presents itself in deep, intimate proximity….wondering: what defines a body’s contours and in which way can these boundaries be diffused? taken in Brooklyn, New York by @erickhe

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Last few days of “Facing a Forward Wind” @dimin.nyc which closes this Saturday 3/15. I’ll be in the gallery that day 1:30-3:30 if you want to stop in!

Threshold, 84 x 83 inches, Oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, and ballpoint on canvas, 2025 by @erickhe

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Want to share this beautiful, incisive text written by Jennifer Pranolo to accompany my show, Facing a Foward Wind.

I am so thankful to Jennifer for this text, for her careful observation, precision in language, and generosity in our conversations leading up to this show.

The show will be up @dimin.nyc till 3/15! by @erickhe

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Thank you everyone who came to the opening of Facing a forward Wind! The show is up through 3/15 @dimin.nyc

This show was a long time in the making, with help from lots of sources. Thank you @yaddotoday @trianglenyc @assets4artists and @monirafoundation for the gifts of space, time and conversation. Thank you @elizabethgreenshieldsfdn for the constant support. taken in New York, New York by @erickhe

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Erick Alejandro Hernández
Facing a Forward Wind
February 7 - March 15, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7th, 6-8pm

DIMIN
406 Broadway, Fl. 2, New York City

@erickhe

#Contemporarypainting #potraits taken in Tribeca, New York City by @erickhe

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