An Interactive Art Exhibition | March 16-April 10, 2026
Mikhamik is a non-binary, queer Venezuelan artist educator and community builder based in Minneapolis. Their show “Aliens Looking for Home” is being hosted by Gallery 120 at Inver Hills Community College, March 16-April 10, 2026.
Mikhamik’s work explores the intersections of queerness, migration, faith and survival through photography, sculpture and participatory installations. Mikhamik is the founder of Mikhamik House of Arts, a platform dedicated to uplifting LGBQIA2S+ and BIPOC stories through radical art, healing, and visibility.
Artist’s statement
This work lives in the in-between of cultures, borders, and materials. With this installation, I explore what it means to be displaced, queer, and constantly adapting.
What is home? Where is home? Who is home? is there a HOME?
This exhibition tells and shows MY stories in the process of migration, the pass of time, the fears, the good and bad moments, the loneliness of living in place where you have to hide to pass. Through stitching, layering, and rebuilding, I am taking the space to invite you to my journey, and make it YOURS. This is my brain and your playground.
Reworking materials mirrors my experience of displacement.
Like immigrants, these objects are broken down, relocated, and transformed in order to survive. Fiber is both material and language, the emotions and the devotion, the labor and the care, the repair and resilience.
Queerness is central to this work. The figures and structures exist outside of norms and refuse invisibility. Creating them allows me to process personal and collective trauma.
With increased ICE activity in Minneapolis, this work responds to displacement as a lived reality. “Aliens Looking for Home” asks where belonging exists when safety is temporary. Do I Have to start looking for a new place to live? Do I need to run for safety, AGAIN?
This exhibition is interactive.
EXPLORE. PLAY ACTIVATE.The viewer-YOU-becomes part of the work. By touching, moving, feeling, and interacting with the pieces, you give them life, emotion, and presence. Connect to your inner six-year-old. Curiosity is welcome here. All feelings are valid. All emotions you experience in this space belong.
Be yourself. Do your thing.
Just don’t pull too hard.– Mikha Dominguez
Aliens Looking for Home: An Interactive Art Exhibition
Gallery 120, Fine Arts Building, Inver Hills Community College
March 16-April 10, 2026
Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
