Huellas de Paso / Marks of Passage

work by Miguel Limón

July 5 – 26, 2026

On View Sundays
11 A – 2 P

Opening Reception
Sunday, July 5
11 – 2 p

Join us in celebration of the opening of Miguel Limón’s solo exhibition, Huellas de Paso / Marks of Passage. 

Huellas de Paso / Marks of Passage explores how industrial materials and photographic fragments can archive histories shaped by labor and migration. Prints on steel, rust-pigment works, and layered images built from carbon, slag, and reworked archival photographs draw directly from the processes that once defined Chicago's manufacturing industry.

Steel production shaped both land and community. For many Mexican migrants, the mills offered steady work alongside dangerous conditions and instability tied to cycles of industrial boom and collapse; leaving behind byproducts that marked the landscape and the bodies of those who labored there. Today, environmental justice organizing continues as residents and descendants resist new redevelopment that repeats earlier patterns of harm.

Much of this history survives outside formal archives, carried through family photographs, oral histories, and traces left in the land. Through printmaking and image-making, the works reconfigure these materials into new visual forms that acknowledge what is documented while gesturing toward what remains missing.

Miguel Limón (b. Chicago, IL) is an image and social practice artist working through the mediums of photography and printmaking. Informed by perspectives in liberation and shaped by a background in museum education and cultural work, Limón explores how images, materials, and place function as carriers of memory and spirit. At this moment, Limon's research lies in post-migrant experiences in midwestern Mexican-American communities.

Limon's formal training is in education, youth development, and museum studies. As a cultural worker, they have taught and led programs at the University of Chicago, SAIC @ Homan Square, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and more. They hold a BS in Education from DePaul University and an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Their work has been exhibited at Mana Contemporary, the Design Museum of Chicago, the John David Mooney Foundation, and others. Limon has received grant awards from 3Arts/Ignite, the Aperture Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation. Limon was named as a “2025 Artist to Watch” by Comfort Station, and 2024 Visual Arts Fellowship Honorable Mention by Luminarts Foundation. They have been featured in Vogue Italia, V Magazine, Aperture, Sixty Inches from Center, and Local Wolves.

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