Miguel Limón (b. Chicago, Illinois) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker whose practice spans printmaking, photography, installation, and socially engaged pedagogy. Informed by a lineage of Mexican migrant labor and shaped by their background in museum studies and education, Limón explores the ways images, objects, and materials function as carriers of memory and spirit. Their work approaches the print as both artifact and animate form—an object that not only documents but intervenes, activating personal and collective histories.

Through an animist and pedagogical lens, Limón engages print media as civic infrastructure: a tool for storytelling, resistance, and cultural transmission. Their process often merges archival research, material experimentation, and community engagement, investigating how labor, displacement, and place shape our visual and embodied languages.

Limón holds a BS in Education from DePaul University and an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. They have received support from 3Arts, the Puffin Foundation, and the Aperture Foundation, with work presented at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Design Museum of Chicago. They live and work in Chicago.

Image: Miguel Limón, Hogares Perdidos, 2016-2019, Silver Gelatin Prints, Instant Film Prints, 10” x 30”

Headshot: Daniel Delgado