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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, and the Beverly Warner Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. In 2024, they were named the Devra Freelander Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park. They were awarded a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill in 2023 and have received grants and scholarships from 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, the Center for Performance Research, and Fordham University, as well as 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.

Jill Cohen-Nuñez b.1992 in New York, NY. Lives and works in the Bronx, NY | jillcohen-nunez.com

Residencies & Awards

2025  The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, Bronx, NY

2025  Beverly Warner Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

2024-25  Devra Freelander Artist Fellow, Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship, Queens, NY

2024  The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center Scholarship, West Rutland, VT

2023  The Atmospheric Futures Scholarship, The Oki Doki Studio, Germantown, NY

2023  New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY

2022  UrbanGlass Scholarship Award, Brooklyn, New York

2021  NYFA City Artist Corps Grants - City Corps Grant, New York

2021  Governors Island Artist Residency, BronxArtSpace, New York

2020  Connor Merit Awards - First Place Undergraduate Studio Art Winner

2019  Scholarship, "Sculpting with Wax—Casting with Bronze”, Modern Art Foundry, Queens, NY

2019  Space to Connect Resident, Chashama, Bronx, NY

2016  Scholarship Student, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY

2016  Artist-in-Residence, Newark Print Shop, Newark, NJ

2012  Artist-in-Residence, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

2008  Two Gold & Silver Key, Silver National Award in Photography, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

2009  Gold Key in Photography, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2024  Psycho-Tropics: Belonging Elsewhere, EFA Project Space, New York, NY

2023  The Loudness of Silence, CICADA, Online Exhibition

2022  Young Sculptors Exhibition, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY

2022  Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love, The New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY

2022  The Family Portrait, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York

2022  Dirty Work, Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

2020  Refuge, 440 Gallery, New York, NY

2019   Performance Studio Open House: (of Rituals), Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

2019  Conditioning Leather, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY

2019  Valores Estetícos/Aesthetic Values, 320 W 23rd Street, New York, NY

2019  Visionary Women Building Strong Communities: Art Reception, Fordham University, NY

2019  LISTEN: Artists Respond to Politics, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY

2018  Sacrificial Lamb, Lethal Amounts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017  Nasty Women Exhibition: A Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, The Knockdown Center

2016  Brown Don't Drown, 17 Frost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015  Untitled: Fuerza, 9 Lives, Brooklyn, NY

2013, 2014  Group Exhibition, The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 - 2016  A Benefit Auction for Young New Yorkers (Annual), Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY

2008 - 2009  Student Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY