This July with @comfort_station .
“Huellas de Paso / Marks of Passage” applies industrial materiality and photographic fragments as carriers for histories shaped by labor and migration. The show includes prints on steel, rust- and carbon-pigment works, and sculptural images built from reworked archival photographs; materials that come directly from the processes that once defined Chicago’s steel manufacturing industry.
My work is up at @kimballartschicago as part of Spring / Summer AIR 2026, an Artists in Residence exhibition running May through August alongside Diana Noh and Ren Buenviaje.
Opening reception and KAC Open House: May 29, 4–8pm. Free and open to everyone.
A set of work I’m calling “Registros” will be on view through the summer. Programming Information coming soon!
I was invited to give an artist talk to humanities students at UChicago (@uchicagoahddos ) about my work and thoughts on visual culture and media aesthetics. Together we made some speculative palimpsests responding to photos from the University photo archive.
A couple weeks ago, we took my teen students @tcaatmca to @thedarkroomchicago ! A part of the broader 4-week image-making curriculum we were implementing, we instructed students to consider image-making through abstraction and chemigrams, an alternative photo process involving no cameras, only paper and chemistry.
Here are some of my faves along with the demo I made. All in an afternoon.
Experimenting with motion extraction to envision movement/migration in relation to images. The top video highlights any change in pixels essentially depicting the movement in the bottom video.
Quantum Flag I, 2026
My recent work uses the intertextuality of images to surface historical truths by placing archival photographs in spatial context. Images of migrant families celebrating are framed by the industrial sublime, linking memory, labor, and landscape.
A further layer considers the relationship between home country and the United States. With a new quantum campus rising in my longtime neighborhood, I’m thinking through quantum theory as a way to understand the liminality of the borderlands, where the migrant experience becomes a form of entanglement. A simulated double-slit interference pattern sits behind the composites, referencing quantum indeterminacy.
The flag, as a historical symbol of placemaking, provides the work’s form.
Miguel Limón (@mgllmn ) is a Chicago-based image and social practice artist working in photography and printmaking. Rooted in liberation perspectives and museum education, their work explores memory, migration, and Mexican-American life in the Midwest. Their work has been exhibited nationally and supported by 3Arts/Ignite, Aperture Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation, with features in Vogue Italia, V Magazine, Aperture, and more.
Discover more creatives like Miguel Limón via the link in bio.
Some image work for @chicago_reader first print issue back! Grey Lucas outlines the implications of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park being built on the site of South Works Steel Mill in South Chicago.
Archival Images used in collage courtesy of Southeast Chicago Historical Society (@southeast.chicago ) and Library of Congress.
Thank you to @shifripar and @sarahconway for thinking of me ✨
#environmentaljustice #chicagohistory #35mm #quantumcomputing
Tártaro 002 by artist Miguel Limón reflects on the quiet intimacies of home, capturing the blurred edges between memory, labor, and everyday life in a post-migration US.
Purchase this intimate print to support immigrant freedom and family reunification.
LA DFNSA art fundraiser closes Feb 1!
100% of proceeds will be directed to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.
Link in Chuqui’s bio on how to support!🛡️
Tártaro 002 2019 8″ x 10″
Pigment print on photo rag
Miguel Limón
@mgllmn@mw_bondfund
